Deep ecology

The displacement of BME and low-income groups leads to the issues of environmental gentrification. If city planners are working to increase green infrastructure within an impoverished community, will they find success in creating a healthier, “greener” space or in a wealthier, “whiter” space? Although plans for city green space include sustainable initiatives, they oftentimes lack the advocacy for environmental justice. This inadequacy depicts the concepts of sustainability and going green…

The nursing research article that I chose to critic for this assignment is entitled "The nurse work environment, job satisfaction and turnover rates in rural and urban nursing units" written by Marianne Baernholdt and Barbara A. Mark. The goal of this publication is to determine if there is a relationship between the nurse work environment and the level of satisfaction and the rate of nurses ' turnover. Urban hospitals have been the subject of research to examine this association but not rural…

This experience showed me how even a small amount of people can help our city, Laredo, become better and help historical landmarks be beautiful up to today. In my perspective, civic ecology seems more of a traditionalistic subculture this is because our state has a lot of tradition and I think keeping historic places adds to the tradition. The LBVESC could be called an interest group because they have a lot of events and volunteer service…

The terms ‘conservation’ and ‘environmentalism’ often bear negative stigmas: images of activists chained to trees and of people engaging in physical conflicts over the practice of whale harvesting sometimes come to mind when we hear words associated with environmental protection. As Christians, we recognize that human life is far more important in the eyes of the Creator than is the life of any other creature, no matter how rare. Yet does this truth immediately release us from responsibility to…

R- and k- strategists are reproductive strategies. Reproductive strategies are “The interplay of environmental resistance and biotic potential” (Wright, 77). The difference between the r- and k- strategies is the characteristics of each. The r- strategies tend to have a lot of children at a young age, leaving their children with little or no parental care, the population stability wildly fluctuates. R- strategist tend to be smaller in size and, a short life span and rapid movement. Examples of…

Ecological design is a major part of our coming future and is necessary for the prosperity of our species as caretakers for the world. Sim Van Der Ryn and Stuart Cowan, in their book Ecological Design, address five principles in design that will help to move society in the right direction. These principles are: solutions from your place, ecological accounting, designing with nature, everyone is a designer, and making nature visible. It has been over the course of the last century that building…

Introduction The Earth is composed of various environmental resources. Often times, these natural resources can be used extensively by groups of people (Wang, Du, Su, Chen, 2012). This was portrayed in the movie DamNation (2014), in which dams were built to utilize the environmental resource of water, as a way to benefit humans. However, if individuals continuously overuse these natural resources for their self-interest, without its protection, the resources will eventually become damaged or…

Spirit (1990), which is actually an application of the fundamental ecofeminist critical principles. The late twentieth century witnessed the emergence of ecological feminism or ecofeminism as a critical approach which associates between feminism and ecology. The term ecofeminism was first used in 1974 by the French writer, Francoise D' Eaubonne,…

ADI Predator-Prey Population Size Relationship Lab Report In nature, there are many relationships between organisms. One of these is a predator-prey population size relationship, and more specifically for this investigation, predation. In this relationship, an organism (or organisms) depend(s) on others for food. There is a predator, the hunter, and the prey, the hunted. In this experiment, the predators were the wolves, and the prey were the sheep (the grass could also be considered prey, and…

By the early 20th century, the fractures between environmental conservationists and the preservationists were beginning to appear. Explain the differences between these two concepts and how they began to emerge in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s over the controversy the damming of the Hetch Hetchy Valley. Be sure to consider the leaders of these contradictory movements, as well as their philosophies regarding nature. What was the outcome of this controversy? Who won, and why? In the…