Positive Human Roles
These humans can hold Earth and the universe in their vast hearts and envelop them with acceptance and love.
What are Unconditional Lovers?
A concept that looks at the progression from self-centered to world-centered levels of environmental awareness and motivation.
What is Levels of Awareness and Caring?
This concept discusses an approach to conservation through connected wildlife corridors across North America.
What is the Wildlands Network?
Economist Kate Raworth coined this model for balancing human prosperity and ecological health.
What is “Doughnut Economics”?
This article chronicles the story of Yacouba Sawadogo, a farmer who used traditional techniques to combat desertification in ____________.
What is Burkina Faso?
These humans add an elegant layer of consciousness to Earth's earlier layers of matter and life, and are known for their vast symbol-weaving minds, expressed through stories, art, poetry, religion, philosophy, mathematics, and science.
What are Symbol Weavers?
In this level, the focus of the individual is on self-interest and immediate personal impact.
What is the Egocentric Level?
Indigenous practices that emphasize balance, sustainability, and respect for ecosystems.
What is Traditional Knowledge?
Its sole measure of progress neglects social and environmental costs.
What are the Problems with GDP?
Sawadogo’s method of digging planting pits to capture water and nutrients, enhancing soil fertility, was called __________.
What is the Zaï Technique?
These humans are 'pioneers' in loose awareness and the first species on Earth to freely choose to limit their competition with other species and create cultural ways to do this. Their vast minds also adventure into the unknown, reaching further dimensions of spaciousness.
What are Adventurers in Evolution?
At this level, the individual expands their care to social groups, communities, or broader society.
What is the Sociocentric Level?
A movement to return lands to Indigenous management to enhance conservation.
What are Land-Back Movements?
This model visualizes a “safe and just space” for humanity within an outer ecological ceiling and an inner social foundation.
What is the Doughnut Model?
It rejuvenated land, improved crop yields, and inspired similar projects.
How did Sawadogo's efforts impact his community?
These humans have wide-ranging awareness and dazzling inventions of technologies that enable them to rescue Earth from another large asteroid impact/ massive death from sky.
What are Protectors?
At this level, individuals recognize the intrinsic value of ecosystems & all species, embracing a global perspective.
What is the Worldcentric Level?
It would allow for species migration and genetic diversity, which is critical for ecosystem resilience.
What is the importance of Connectivity and using Corridors?
The goal is to avoid both social shortfalls and ecological overshoot.
What is meeting needs (of the population/world) sustainably?
What is traditional?
These humans are able to intimately commune with others -- humans, rocks, atoms, rivers, plants, animals, galaxies, the universe itself -- through intense empathy, imagination, love, or by resting open consciousness.
What are Intimates?
Unlike people at the worldcentric level, people at both the egocentric and sociocentric levels are called "this term", meaning human-centered.
What is Anthropocentric (human-centered)?
The enhancement of biodiversity for many species, from large mammals to pollinators.
What are Ecosystem Benefits?
To advocate for policies that prioritize social and environmental health alongside economic growth.
What are the implications of Doughnut Economics?
Sawadogo used this special "ingredient" to improve crops yields.
What is animal manure?