Costa nicely reminds us of Darwin's ecological mind on p. 73 where Darwin discusses "forces so nicely balanced, that the face of nature remains uniform for long periods of time…" to which Costa notes, "This beautiful sentence captures the essence of the ecological web, as well as the struggle for existence".
"Soothe, soothe, soothe!" The boys continued to banter about ecological-minded Christians, gay soldiers and what food is O.K. to eat off a neighboring table's plate (broccoli rabe, no; French fries, Mr. Muhly said, are "totally fair game").
Aveda, an ecological-minded cosmetics company, has commissioned Maya Lin, far left, the architect who designed the Vietnam War Memorial, to turn honeysuckle vines into grass-cloth wallcoverings and sunflower seed shells into burled tabletops for its new 11,000-square-foot penthouse offices.
The resulting book is part natural history, part adventure story (starring Mr. Weidensaul as a kind of ecological-minded Indiana Jones, roaming the world in search of missing species), part essay on the human "need to believe the world is more complete than the catalog of vanishing ecosystems would indicate".
"Fit" is defined with a specific ecological niche in mind.
It is argued that tests designed with ecological validity in mind (the verisimilitude approach), as opposed to traditional tests, may be most effective at predicting everyday functioning.
As a result, Austin homes and businesses have been built with ecological issues in mind.
To attain a proper understanding of the history and phenomenology of the religion of the Finno-Ugric peoples, two basic influences must be borne in mind: the ecological factors and the pressure of alien cultures on the original religious tradition.
With every vocalization, images of imperialism, evangelization, colonization, massacre and ecological exchange would spring to mind.
The same companies that, by their very design, chase profits with no mind for the ecological and human consequences.
But to many Americans, they are buzzards, bottom feeders and flying rats that carry disease and eat disgusting things -- never mind their vital ecological service.
