Stan Rowe - Home Place : Essays on Ecology

Biology by itself is incomplete. Organisms do not stand on their own; they evolve and exist in the context of unified ecological systems that confer those properties called life. Life is not a property of protein molecules nor of protoplasm; it is a property of the ecosystems that the planetary Ecosphere comprises

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from Stan Rowe writing about the science of ecology in the 1990 book ‘Home Place : Essays on Ecology’ .

http://www.ecospherics.net/index.html

Lew Welch

Step out onto the planet.

Draw a circle a hundred feet round. 

Inside are three hundred things nobody understands, and, maybe, nobody's ever really seen.

 

How many can you find?

 

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from the American ‘beat’ poet Lew Welch (1926 — May 23, 1971?) 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Welch

Greenpeace - Exxon Valdez

It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill.  It was yours.

 

a Greenpeace advertisement in the New York Times of 25^th  February 1990.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/

Andrew McLaughlin - ‘Regarding Nature : Industrialism and Deep Ecology’

Unless we find effective ways of curtailing our numbers, all hopes of creating decent human societies, much less ones that allow the rest of nature to flourish, will be frustrated…….We are in danger of becoming a lonely but numerous species, scratching away at increasingly harsh and dusty Earth, eking out a livelihood that is increasingly more difficult to secure.

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from Andrew McLaughlin’s 1993 book ‘Regarding Nature : Industrialism and Deep Ecology’.

http://blogs.stuzog.com/dandeliontimes/recommended-reading/

Hazel Henderson

“The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise … economics is a form of brain damage.”

This weeks Green Thought comes from the American futurist, economist and author Hazel Henderson. Hazel is described as a futurist and an economic iconoclast.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Henderson

http://www.hazelhenderson.com/index.html

http://word.world-citizenship.org/wp-archive/999

Stan Rowes - ‘Home Place: Essays on Ecology’.

An unshakeable ethic for the Ecosphere will emerge when we believe in our heart and minds our worldly environment is a reality more important than me, you and all of us. When such a conviction about Nature becomes second nature, we will know that we are part of the ecological whole that produced us and sustains us.

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from Stan Rowes 1990 book ‘Home Place: Essays on Ecology’.

http://www.ecospherics.net/index.html

 

T.S.Eliot - ‘Choruses from the Rock’

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

The cycles of heaven in twenty centuries
Brings us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.

 

This weeks Green Thought comes from ‘Choruses from the Rock’ (1934) by T.S.Eliot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.S_Elliot

http://www.tech-samaritan.org/blog/2010/06/16/choruses-from-the-rock-t-s-eliot/