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Green issues Green politics is a body of political ideas informed by environmentalism aimed at developing a sustainable society. ... Download high resolution version (3229x1999, 1840 KB)Sunflowers in Fargo, North Dakota. ... This list of Green party issues aims at giving an overview about Wikipedia articles that have to do with Green parties. ... Worldwide green parties (list): Global Greens · Africa · Americas · Asia-Pacific · Europe This article is about the green parties around the world. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... This article is about the green parties around the world. ... The Federation of Green Parties of Africa is the organization of Green parties in Africa. ... The Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas is the organization of Green parties in North America and South America. ... The Asia-Pacific Green Network is a federation of national Green parties in countries in the Pacific Ocean and Asia, and is a member of the Global Greens. ... European Greens (or the European Green Party) is the name of the European Green Party, a political party at European level. ... Global Greens Charter: ecological wisdom · social justice · participatory democracy · nonviolence · sustainability · respect diversity The Global Greens Charter is a document that 800 delegates from the Green parties of 70 countries decided upon a first gathering of the Global Greens in Canberra, Australia in April 2001. ... Social Justice is a concept that has fascinated philosophers ever since Plato rebuked the young Sophist, Thrasymachus, for asserting that justice was whatever the strongest decided it would be. ... Participatory democracy is a broadly inclusive term for many kinds of consultative decision making in a democracy. ... Nonviolence (or non-violence) is a set of assumptions about morality, power and conflict that leads its proponents to reject the use of violence in efforts to attain social or political goals. ... Sustainability is a systemic concept, relating to the continuity of economic, social, institutional and environmental aspects of human society. ... The prerogative to respect diversity, often said to begin with biodiversity of non-human life, is basic to some 20th century studies such as cultural ecology, Queer studies, and anthropological linguistics. ...

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The term ecological wisdom, or ecosophy, is a philosophy of ecological harmony or equilibrium. It was introduced by Norwegian philosopher, Arne Naess in 1973. The concept is the outgrowth of the environmentalism of the 1960s and has become one of the foundations of the deep ecology movement. Politics is the process by which decisions are made within groups. ... Ecosophy, also ecophilosophy, is a neologism made by contracting the phrase ecological philosophy. ... Arne Dekke Næss (born 1912) is the foremost Norwegian philosopher of the 20th century and founder of deep ecology. ... Environmentalism is the support or involvement with the environmental movement by environmentalists. ... Deep ecology is a recent philosophy or ecosophy based on a shift away from the anthropocentric bias of established environmental and green movements. ...

All expressions of values by Green Parties list ecological wisdom as a key value - it was one of the original Four Pillars of the Green Party and is often considered the most basic value of these parties. This article is about the green parties around the world. ... The worldwide green parties are committed to the following Four Pillars: Ecology (sometimes Ecological Wisdom or Ecological Sustainability) Social Justice (sometimes Social Equality and Economic Justice) Grassroots Democracy Non-Violence In German, they are known as Die Grünen: ökologisch, sozial, basisdemokratisch, gewaltfrei. ...

It is also often associated with indigenous religion and cultural practices. The term indigenous peoples has no universal, standard or fixed definition. ...

In its political context, it is necessarily not as easily defined as ecological health or scientific ecology concepts. It refers in part to biomimicry (imitating the efficiency of nature's services and bodily forms). Ecological health or ecological integrity or ecological damage is used to refer to symptoms of an ecosystems pending loss of carrying capacity, ability to perform natures services, or pending ecocide due to cumulative causes such as pollution. ... (Ecology is sometimes used incorrectly as a synonym for the natural environment or environmentalism. ... Bionics (also known as biomimetics, biognosis, or biomimicry, Bionical Creatology, Bionical Creativity Engineering (S.Mahdi Golestan Hashemi) is the application of methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology. ... Natures services is an umbrella term for the ways in which nature benefits humans, particularly those benefits that can be measured in economic terms. ...

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Global Greens Charter The Global Greens Charter is a document that 800 delegates from the Green parties of 70 countries decided upon a first gathering of the Global Greens in Canberra, Australia in April 2001. ...

Green syndicalism Green syndicalism is the philosophy of the green guild or sustainable trades movement. ...