Environmental philosophy

My Environmental Ethics Growing up in a highly capitalized area, Macau, and being taught the idea that wealth is the ruler of power and status, I learned that I would have to find a job with decent extra benefit and high salary in the future. Until the time I have taken geography and moral education classes in my high school, I started to consider a bigger picture when I was thinking about public policy and my decision making. I knew that what I did could affect anyone around me and possibly the society as well. I did not have any terminology at that time, but if I could bring my knowledge back into the time, I would say my ethic has been shifted from ego-centrism to somewhere between ego- and home-centrism because the ideology grounded in…

Although the group as a whole preaches to be a conservation group, I tend to see them somewhere in between conservation and preservation. The group 's overall goal of preserving land for future generations is an idea that directly mirrors the goals of conservationists. Also, the ranch is economically focused on using the land directly for human use. However, this is where I think the comparisons start because I feel that many of their environmental philosophies mirror very closely with Arne…

As he discusses in his book Ecological Design, Sim Van Der Ryn makes a very important statement: “In many ways, the environmental crisis is a design crisis” (Van Der Ryn 1996:24). That is, it is a matter of how things are made and how the environment is used. For many, “green” is merely something that combines or replaces everyday products with recycled ones, or perhaps has a few good ideas about raising awareness for environmental issues. However, this is not enough. The word “sustainable” in…

The industrial revolution causes the environmental crisis and it affects humanity deeply and irreversibly. There is no doubt that this brings back religion in a new form which is supposed to give answers to those questions that technology cannot answer. How could the spirituality of deep ecology help the environmental movement? Religion has faith which serves for answering all of the questions which cannot be tackled by technology, innovation and science. There is a void which is fulfilled by…

The Hippie Movement has caused a great amount of change to the environment it has surrounded, which started around Ashbury-Haight Street in San Francisco and has spread throughout the country. Eastern religion, philosophy and political beliefs caused environmentalism, which impacted environmental thinking. Brought to the minds of young people, it helped make environmentalism a mass movement in society. Many young activists created a variety of organizations, events, and campaigns that supported…

What does it mean to you to be environmentally literate? To become environmentally literate a person must “Climb the Environmental Literacy Ladder” (What is Environmental Literacy, 2007). First s/he must be connected to nature; not just knowing about it, but also putting themselves in nature and being aware that they are a part of it. Once that connection is made one becomes more aware of all the aspects that are interconnected throughout the environment locally and globally. The more time…

On the trip Muir discussed environmental issues and the devastation of the wilderness. Upon returning, he successfully convinced Roosevelt and the California governor to make the valley part of Yosemite National Park. Many of his articles were so inspiring that readers began to speak for conservation in politics. Also, John Muir was actively involved in the fight personally. One example of this is when he started a campaign against the damming of the Hetch Hetchy Valley. Many of Muir’s efforts…

the kind of associations that customers have with a brand, goods, service and/or organization (2013). Kandampully & Hu stated that corporate image consisted of two main components; the first is functional such as the tangible characteristics that can be measured and evaluated easily. The second is emotional such as feelings, attitudes and beliefs the one have towards the organization. These emotional components are consequences from accumulative experiences the customer have with the passage of…

“Your skin is beautifully alive. It’s a living, breathing thing—your body’s largest, loveliest organ—and when it’s healthy, it shows,” is the Burt’s Bees skincare philosophy. Burt’s Bees is an organic based skincare company that focuses on nature-derived ingredients. They support the claims of organic care is better for you than chemically derived products. Organic or natural means that the product does not contain synthetic compounds or materials. Many groups, companies, and consumers are also…

poststructuralist viewpoint, as it exposed to me that socially-constructed value criteria still serve as the glue to bind even the most organized environmental movements together. Consequently, this source greatly assisted my analysis by highlighting structural causes of new subjective hierarchies being reinstated following resistance, providing insight into the problematic results of radical environmentalism in The Monkey Wrench Gang. Radical Environmentalism: Nature, Identity and…