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The Deep Ecology Platform 1. All life has value in itself, independent of its usefulness to humans. 2. Richness and diversity contribute to life's well-being and have value in themselves. 3. Humans have no right to reduce this richness and diversity except to satisfy vital needs in a responsible way. 4. The impact of humans in the world is excessive and rapidly getting worse. 5. Human lifestyles and population are key elements of this impact. 6. The diversity of life, including cultures, can flourish only with reduced human impact. 7. Basic ideological, political, economic and technological structures must therefore change. 8. Those who accept the forgoing points have an obligation to participate in implementing the necessary changes and to do so peacefully and democratically.

The International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) is a non-profit organisation concerned with the protection of both biological and cultural diversity. The emphasis is on education for action: moving beyond single issues to look at the more fundamental influences that shape our lives.

The International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) is a non-profit organisation concerned with the protection of both biological and cultural diversity. The emphasis is on education for action: moving beyond single issues to look at the more fundamental influences that shape our lives.

"Creating communities that are compatible with nature's processes for sustaining life requires basic ecological knowledge. "

Towards Greener Products in Europe This website provides updates and practical information on the European Ecodesign policy process. This process launched in 2005 will progressively set mandatory legislation on the main products sold on the market to enhance their ecological performance. This policy has a tremendous potential to make products greener and more energy efficient, to cut CO2 emissions, reduce waste and limit the use of toxics.This website provides updates and practical information on the European Ecodesign policy process. This process launched in 2005 will progressively set mandatory legislation on the main products sold on the market to enhance their ecological performance. This policy has a tremendous potential to make products greener and more energy efficient, to cut CO2 emissions, reduce waste and limit the use of toxics.

"The Institute of Science in society is a not for profit organisation dedicated to providing critical and accessible scientific information to the public and to promoting social accountability and ecological sustainability in science."

Satoyama landscape refers to a traditional Japanese socio-ecological production landscape and an example of multi-functional land use wherein residents employ agricultural practices and natural resource management techniques that optimize the benefits derived from local ecosystems.

Australian International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme working on Education for Ecological Sustainability

"Green" is a Mirage. Daniel Goleman explains Life Cycle Assessment in "Ecological Intelligence"

Daniel Goleman on Oprah! Ecological Intelligence and Radical Transparency

Earthkeepers One Tribe Trading Company is an organization with a focus on environmental integrity, deep ecology, community relations, tribal values, and global peace.

""People have heart's ease when they're on their own country. If you force them off that country, if you take them away from their land, they feel the loss of heart's ease as a kind of vertigo, a disintegration of their whole life.""

"Almost since life began on earth, mycelia have performed important ecological roles: nourishing ecosystems, repairing them, and sometimes even helping create them. The fungi's exquisitely fine filaments absorb nutrients from the soil and then trade them with the roots of plants for some of the energy that the plants produce through photosynthesis. No plant community could exist without mycelia."

Interesting example of Open Educational Resources. US Notice the format of Duscussion, activities, worksheets, resources and glossary.

Offers children a fun way to find out what their ecological footprint is. Children are able to figure out their impact

An important new book.

Elizabet Sahtouris: The biology of Globalisation " All living systems self-organize and maintain themselves by the same biological principles, which we can identify and abstract. Among the principles essential to the health of living systems are empowered participation of all parts and continual negotiation of self-interest at all levels of organization. Humanity constitutes a living system within the larger living system of our Earth. Essential to the health of humanity is empowered participation of all humans and negotiated self-interest among individual, local and global economies as well as the Earth itself."

"Effective solutions for living sustainably in the postindustrial age require innovative frameworks and implementation strategies. Rather than tackling these global-scale problems one by one, as we are attempting for climate change, we need a far more holistic and integrated approach. The planetary boundaries framework provides such an approach. "

Thomas Berry has just dies aged 94