Now I declared, to myself if no one else, that I was "ecocentric" too. From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
The "ecocentric," transnational "green state" Eckersley envisions is represented as an explicit alternative to "the classical liberal state, the indiscriminate growth-dependent welfare state, and the increasingly ascendant neoliberal competition state.". From Wordnik.com. [Claremont.org] Reference
'ecocentric' traditions of green thought and politics. From Wordnik.com. [MRZine.org] Reference
Thus, ecocentric realization is an anthropocentric experience!. From Wordnik.com. [Ross Robertson: Perspectives on Integral Ecology: 1] Reference
Can pastoral imagination subserve or at least prepare the way for ecocentric values?. From Wordnik.com. [An Exchange on Thoreau] Reference
I believe that Buell is mistaken, and for reasons that illuminate the weakness of his ecocentric commitment. From Wordnik.com. [An Exchange on Thoreau] Reference
Pangea sells what it calls "ecocentric bodycare" products: cleansers, scrubs, creams, toners, masks, lotions and soaps, among other items. From Wordnik.com. [Pangea Organic's line of natural skin-care products is growing] Reference
Eco-conscious institutionalists advocate an ecocentric approach to justice where all species are included in the precautionary and Rawlsian principles. From Wordnik.com. [Neoclassical, institutional, and marxist approaches to the environment-economic relationship] Reference
But I don't share his confidence in a mass conversion to that ecocentric outlook as the most practicable way out of today's impinging ecological impasse. From Wordnik.com. [An Exchange on Thoreau] Reference
The goal at a social level is a society that is based on an ecocentric view of nature and that lives in harmony with the natural tendencies and the limits of natural world. From Wordnik.com. [Deep ecology] Reference
Inspired by the ecocentric attitudes of such beloved American nature-lovers as Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman and Alcott, three MIT designers – Mitchell Joachim, Lara Greden and. From Wordnik.com. [VIDEO: Grow A Treehouse with TeReForm | Inhabitat] Reference
As I pointed out, one of the strengths of Gaian ethics is that its moral obligations can be justified from a purely anthropocentric position as well as from an ecocentric position. From Wordnik.com. [Environmental ethics and the Gaia theory] Reference
Under the ecocentric view all species carry equal worth a priori but every species is ultimately dispensable to Gaia, whereas a healthy Gaia is absolutely indispensable for the flourishing of any species. From Wordnik.com. [Environmental ethics and the Gaia theory] Reference
More dramatically than with our other obligations, the confluence of anthropocentric and ecocentric motivations becomes obvious in this case: self-interest becomes virtually synonymous with Gaia-interest. From Wordnik.com. [Environmental ethics and the Gaia theory] Reference
Whatever debate there is veers between two strands of this Malthusian Weltanschauung: the utilitarian (a.k.a. anthropocentric, shallow, or technocentric) and the ethical (alternatively termed biocentric, deep, or ecocentric). From Wordnik.com. [The Ecology of Environmentalism] Reference
Inspired by the ecocentric attitudes of such beloved American nature-lovers as Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman and Alcott, three MIT designers – Mitchell Joachim, Lara Greden and Javier Arbona designed this living treehouse in which the dwelling itself merges with its environment and nourishes its inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [VIDEO: Grow A Treehouse with TeReForm | Inhabitat] Reference
Many of the more recent assessments of issues concerned with biodiversity, ecosystem health, poverty, environmental justice and sustainability look at both human and environmental issues, eschewing in the process commitment either to a purely anthropocentric or purely ecocentric perspective (see Hayward and O'Neill 1997, and Dobson 1999 for collections of essays looking at the links between sustainability, justice, welfare and the distribution of environmental goods). From Wordnik.com. [Environmental Ethics] Reference
The people involved were, like me, ecocentric: they didn't see. From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
I was a young, fiery, radical, ecocentric environmentalist and I was going to save the world. From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
The green designer Oliver Heath's website, ecocentric. co.uk, for instance, offers beautiful, sustainable products such as recycled glass plates and bowls. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
But societies will only transcend capitalism with ecosocialism which he defined as production based on free association of workers combined with ecocentric means and ends. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive Bloggers] Reference
Arguably what has been most significant in the thinking of ecocentric theorists is their insistence on the 'intrinsic' value of non-human beings and our relationships to them. From Wordnik.com. [MRZine.org] Reference
Promoting its line as "ecocentric bodycare," Pangea's products are made in Boulder without petrochemicals, parabens, genetically modified organisms or other synthetic materials. From Wordnik.com. [Boulder Daily Camera Most Viewed] Reference
Foster's only explicit encounter with ecocentric thought is in his critique of the work of pioneering US environmental sociologist Riley Dunlap, but in this it seems to me that Foster conflates normative and analytical issues. From Wordnik.com. [MRZine.org] Reference
In view of the reactionary turn of some of the bearers of the ecocentric tradition in the USA, this is quite understandable, but thinkers such as Arne Naess, Val Plumwood and Robyn Eckersley represent currents of thought that have much to offer. From Wordnik.com. [MRZine.org] Reference
I was ecocentric because I did not believe - had never believed, I didn't think - that humans were the centre of the world, that the Earth was their playground, that they had the right to do what they liked or even that what they did was that important. From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
An ecocentric society. From Wordnik.com. [Deep ecology] Reference
Is that ecocentric or what?. From Wordnik.com. [Writer's Island Journals] Reference
Originally published on ecocentric. From Wordnik.com. [Regina Weiss: From Bush Legs to Bad Business Practices - It's Been a Busy Week for Poultry] Reference
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