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What is an enviromental worldview?
Hoe people think the world works and what they believe their role in the world should be
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What are environmental ethics?
what one believes about what is right and what is wrong in our behavior toward the enviroment
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what is planetary management view
a human centered worldview that beleives human are the most important and dominate species and should manage the earth mostly for our own benfit
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what is stewdship view
human-centered enviormental world vew that assumes that we have an ethical responsibility to be caring and responsible managers or stewards of the earth
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what is enviromental wisdom view
an earth centered worldview that believes we are part of-not apart from our community of life and the ecological processes taht sustain all life
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what is deep ecology view
earth-centered enviormental world view consists of eight premises developed in 1972 by Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess in conjunction with George Sessions
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what is expontential growth?
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define enviroment distinguish among enviromental science, ecology and enviromentalism
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distinguish between an organism and a species
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explain terms natral capital, natural resources, natural services, solar capital and natural capital degradation
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what is nutrient cycling and why is it important
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list 8 goals for a person seekign enviromental literacy
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list four questions that lie at the heart of enviromental literacy
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list threee ways in which we can learn from the earth
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what does it mean to find a sense of place
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what is sustainability, if not all about sustaining resources for human use?
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list six guidelines for achieving more sustainable and compassionate societies
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describe the relationship between owning things and being happy
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what is voluntary simplicity?
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what are three examples of basic needs?
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what are five examples of more qualitive needs?
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list a dozen steps that are among the important steps that can be taken to make the transition to a more sustainable societie
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describe three traps taht lead to denial, indifference, and inaction concering the enviormental problems we face
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what are the four basic principles of the Earth Charter?
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What role might religion play in making the transition to more sustainable socities?
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List seven componets of the environmental or sustainablility revolution
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Describe connecgtions between Biosphere 2 (core case study), the transition to more enviromentailly sustainable societes, and the four scientific principles of sustainability
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