"The whole notion of 'ecological chic' is a complete oxymoron," Roger Swain, the host of "The Victory Garden" television show, says (although, as phrases go, "ecological chic" is no more oxymoronic than, say, "grunge fashion" or "rap music").
So when teenage Moana (voiced by newcomer Auli'i Cravalho) sees her implausibly contented preindustrial society going into ecological meltdown, she knows what she must do.
He acted on those feelings by making a Southern California home for the largest gathering of gibbons in the Western Hemisphere; going on ecological missions to their native Asian forests to help save them from extinction; and writing articles for academic journals despite having no formal education in biology.
The earth is going into ecological debt earlier each year, The Guardian notes.
A chemical cue here, a flash of color there, so goes the ecological dance in which native pollinators and other insects participate.
A Gulf Coast task force appointed by President Obama recommended on Monday that a "significant portion" of the billions of dollars in fines that BP is expected to pay for last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill go to ecological restoration.
Page A18 TASK FORCE DIRECTS BP FINES A Gulf Coast task force appointed by President Obama recommended that a "significant portion" of the billions of dollars in fines that BP is expected to pay for last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill go to ecological restoration.
We highlight the fact that other reasonable positions on the link between ecology and management are found in the literature, including different ways to go from ecology to ecological engineering and ways to integrate ecological research within management.
My feeling is that we always want music because it's a very natural human way to express and connect to one another - but perhaps the new rock'n'roll is going to be ecological breakthroughs, or kids coming up with amazing ways to connect us, and continue living on this planet.
[It could be chance too: things will tend to cluster about a genomic wild type for chance reasons as well, but if that happens by chance it is unlikely to be maintained by chance, and so we can ignore random clustering over time.] So in the absence of sex, you are going to need ecological niche adaptation to keep the cluster from just randomly evaporating.
Ayahuasca is a natural medicine and having that natural element to it draws a lot of people in, especially as we're going through this ecological mess that we seem to find ourselves in.
