Shifting Positions toward the Earth: Art and Environmental Awareness

Leonardo ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Mayer Harrison ◽  
Newton Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Earth Art ◽  
The Earth

STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR GENDER AND ACADEMIC STREAM

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-265
Author(s):  
Dr.Navdeep Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Stages Of Learning ◽  
The Masses

Since its evolution environment has remained both a matter of awe and concern to man. The frontier attitude of the industrialized society towards nature has not only endangered the survival of all other life forms but also threatened the very existence of human life. The realization of such potential danger has necessitated the dissemination of knowledge and skill vis-a-vis environment protection at all stages of learning. Therefore, learners of all stages of learning need to be sensitized with a missionary zeal. This may ensure transformation of students into committed citizens for averting global environment crisis. The advancement of science and technology made the life more and more relaxed and man also became more and more ambitious. With such development, human dependence on environment increased. He consumed more resources and the effect of his activities on the environment became more and more detectable. Environment covers all the things present around the living beings and above the land, on the surface of the earth and under the earth. Environment indicates, in total, all of peripheral forces, pressures and circumstances, which affect the life, nature, behaviour, growth, development and maturation of living beings. Irrational exploitation (not utilization) of natural resources for our greed (not need) has endangered our survival, and incurred incalculable harm. Environmental Education is a science, a well-thought, permanent, lasting and integrated process of equipping learning experiences for getting awareness, knowledge, understanding, skills, values, technical expertise and involvement of learners with desirable attitudinal changes about their relationship with their natural and biophysical environment. Environmental Education is an organized effort to educate the masses about environment, its functions, need, importance, and especially how human beings can manage their behaviour in order to live in a sustainable manner.  The term 'environmental awareness' refers to creating general awareness of environmental issues, their causes by bringing about changes in perception, attitude, values and necessary skills to solve environment related problems. Moreover, it is the first step leading to the formation of responsible environmental behaviour (Stern, 2000). With the ever increasing development by modern man, large scale degradation of natural resources have been occurred, the public has to be educated about the fact that if we are degrading our environment we are actually harming ourselves. To encourage meaningful public participation and environment, it is necessary to create awareness about environment pollution and related adverse effects. This is the crucial time that environmental awareness and environmental sensitivity should be cultivated among the masses particularly among youths. For the awareness of society it is essential to work at a gross root level. So the whole society can work to save the environment.

scholarly journals Care for the Earth as Archetypal Emergence in the Christian Tradition

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 85-98
Author(s):  
Jonathan Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Belief Systems ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Religious Consciousness ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Earth

This paper explores the renewed emphasis of care for the Earth in the Christian tradition as an emerging archetypal shift toward Earth-centered psyche. Jung proposed that the Christian psyche would continue to evolve toward greater psychic wholeness. The current trends toward environmental awareness in religious communities offer compelling parallels to Jung’s ideas about the evolution of religious consciousness. “If faith (God) is said to be able to move mountains (Job 9.5; 1 Cor. 13.2), scholars need to explore how belief systems could ‘move’ climates” (Gerten & Bergmann, 2012, p. 13).

Ecological approach as part of greater environmental awareness

2020 ◽  
pp. 141-161
Author(s):  
S. Nazrul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Ecological Approach ◽  
Planetary Boundaries ◽  
Ramsar Convention ◽  
International Rivers ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
World Commission On Dams ◽  
Mortal Danger

Chapter 7 shows that the emergence of the Ecological approach to rivers is a part of the broader process of greater recognition of the importance of protection of environment, in general. The huge increase in population and production following the Industrial Revolution led to breaches in planetary boundaries, putting the earth and human civilization in a jeopardy. Since the 1970s there has been growing recognition of this mortal danger, and various initiatives were begun along different directions to confront this danger, many focused on protection of rivers and waterbodies. Among these are the Ramsar Convention of 1971, UN Convention on International Rivers of 1997, and formation and report of the World Commission on Dams in 2000. The rise of the Ecological approach to rivers is a continuation of this process.

Economical performance towards capitalizing renewable energy

2013 ◽  
pp. 123-135
Author(s):  
Cristian Florea ◽  
Monica Patricia Ardeleanu ◽  
Cristina Ciovica ◽  
Alexandra Galbeaza
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Renewable Resources ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Emerging Countries ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Alternative Energy Sources ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Economical Performance

In a world of technology and changing habits, but also driven by environmental awareness, renewable resources seem to be our last chance of saving the Earth. Some countries like China, the USA, Brazil or Germany have fully understood the need for alternative energy sources. Still, the emerging countries as well need to make an effort and invest in this field as soon as possible. That is why the present paper wishes to assess Romania's potential in what concerns renewable resources, emphasizing in the same time the level of some top investing countries.

scholarly journals Planetary art beyond the human: Rethinking agency in the Anthropocene

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-294
Author(s):  
Joanna Page
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Solar Flares ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Cosmic Time ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Volcanic Eruptions ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Environmental Disaster ◽  
Earth Art ◽  
The Earth

A growing number of transdisciplinary art-science projects across the world are taking up the challenge of representing geological and cosmic time and of rendering visible, audible and tangible the powerful forces that shape the planet’s systems. While art historians have often found the earth art movement to exemplify a new awareness of the geological impact of human activity on the planet, I argue that art may engender a more genuinely planetary perspective when it pays attention to those forces we cannot compel. Gesturing towards the limits of human agency with regard to the Earth may ultimately be a more effective way of challenging anthropocentrism, and of locating human history within planetary time. My analysis draws on works by four contemporary artists – Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Canada/Mexico), Claudia Müller (Chile), Paul Rosero Contreras (Ecuador) and Michelle-Marie Letelier (Germany/Chile) – that explore the science of turbulent dynamics that are impervious to human action, such as solar flares, earthquakes, winds, tides, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. As Nigel Clark argues, the fundamental asymmetry that governs our relationship with a volatile planet is often lost in accounts of the entanglement of human and nonhumans that have recently prevailed in the humanities and social sciences. The works I discuss revise the practices of earth art to create a ‘planetary art’, cultivating a sense of the planet beyond the human that allows us to understand its dynamics more fully, and to resituate human agency more properly within geohistories of matter and energy. In many cases, this art remains fully alert to the geopolitics of the Anthropocene, focusing on the increased vulnerability of the Global South to climate change and environmental disaster, and gesturing towards a decolonial critique of the objectification of nature and the dissociative, rationalist knowledge produced by modern science.

Environmental Aspects of Renewable Sources of Energy in the Slovak Education System

2014 ◽  
Vol 1001 ◽  
pp. 45-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ján Stebila ◽  
Dušan Brozman ◽  
Ivan Ružiak ◽  
Milada Gajtanska
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Renewable Sources ◽  
Renewable Sources Of Energy ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Responsible Behaviour

Due to relatively low environmental awareness of a man, we have reported considerable deterioration of the environment on the Earth resulting mainly in destruction of the nature. In general, increasing people ́s awareness along with conscious environmentally-responsible behaviour may help slow down the process of degradation or even stop it. Consequently, in some regions and localities, we could report improvement in environmental conditions and thus ensure harmonisation of a relationship between the nature and a man as an unseparable part hereof.

scholarly journals Environmental Awareness: An Advocacy of The Mahabharat

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Narayan Bahadur Magar
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Human Relationship ◽  
Spiritual Ecology ◽  
The Earth

The sublimation or the deterioration of the Earth depends on how the humans act over the natural world. The Mahabharata, an ancient Sanskrit literary text, reveals a way to the modern human as to treat with the natural phenomena. The degraded environment of the present more or less depends on how the human takes the natural world. This paper uses the Mahabharata, an English translation by Kisari Mohan Ganguli to analyze the text from ecological perspective. The researcher envisions the human relationship with the natural world in the epic through the concept of spiritual ecology.

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