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Terrapsychology is a word coined by Craig Chalquist to describe deep, systematic, trans-empirical approaches to encountering the presence, soul, or "voice" of places and things: what the ancients knew as their resident genius loci or indwelling spirit. This perspective emerged from sustained ...
A fatal degenerative disease that destroys the nervous systems of sheep and goats. Named after the infected sheep's habit of scraping its itchy skin against trees and bushes.
Industry:Biology
Most Americans do not realize that eating processed food almost always means eating something genetically altered, in part because the foods are not normally labelled as such.
Industry:Biology
Le cycle des transformations entre les roches ignées, métamorphiques et sédimentaires au fil du temps. (Les roches sont composées de cristaux : liquides dont les atomes forment les grilles lorsque figé.)
Industry:Biology
L'illusion de masse, complétée par la publicité coûteuse, qui à l'aide de produits autant que possible aussi rapidement que possible sera en quelque sorte pas cave dans la biosphère. Voir dépérissement.
Industry:Biology
A simple six-carbon sugar produced by photosynthesis. An energy source for both plants and animals; it breaks down from ingested carbohydrates. Cellulose and chitin contain it.
Industry:Biology
Retention of juvenile characteristics in an adult, as in the axolotl salamander near Mexico City; under certain environmental conditions it never fully matures. See Progenesis.
Industry:Biology
The time interval between the cutting and recutting of a stand of trees. In the U. S. , the average rotation cycle has bowed to economic pressure by falling from 120 years to 40.
Industry:Biology
Collecte de graines (celles transmises dans les familles sont appelées des héritages), une pratique qui préserve la diversité génétique précieuse aujourd'hui menacé par les monopoles de semences agricoles.
Industry:Biology
L'organe qui produit les antherozoids--les gamètes mâles (spermatozoïdes)--dans les algues, bryophytes (mousses, hépatiques) et ptéridophytes (lycopodes, fougères, prêles). Voir Archegonium.
Industry:Biology
The total amount of energy and nutrients transformed by plants into biomass or chemical energy (roughly 1-3% efficiency for photosynthesis and. 2% for the ecosphere as a whole).
Industry:Biology
