Footnotes

¹Edward Osborne Wilson was a biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist.
² The Biophilia Hypothesis argues that biophilia and biophobia have a genetic component. An example is that a significant number of people find trees that are climbable or have a broad, umbrella-like canopy more attractive.

³David W. Orr’s books, Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World (1992) and Earth in Mind (2004), proposed that education should evolve to emphasize sustainability in wider curricula as well.

⁴Fromm defined the opposite of biophilia as “necrophilia,” being drawn to the destruction of beings who are physically alive, but also as a hatred of life (growth, integration, flourishing).

⁵David Jay Brown contemplates the future of the human race, the mystery of consciousness, the evolution of technology, psychic phenomena and more, in Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse.

⁶William Blake was a poet, painter, and printmaker. His book Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1804–1820) is a prophetic book that tells the story of the fall of Albion, Blake’s embodiment of man, Britain or the western world as a whole.

⁷Margaret Wheatley is a writer, teacher, speaker. She creates organizations and communities worthy of human habitation.
⁸Dean Michael Ornish’s book Love and Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy argues that survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy and relationships.
⁹The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding asserts that the only world we humans can have is the one we create together through the actions of our coexistence.

¹⁰ Thomas Berry called himself a “geologian”. He pushed a deep understanding of the history and functioning of the evolving universe as a necessary inspiration and guide for our own effective functioning as individuals and as a species.
¹¹Brian Thomas Swimme is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies teaching evolutionary cosmology.

¹²Michael McGinnis’s 1993 paper, “Actual Causes of Death,” focused attention on the root causes of the nation’s leading killers via lifestyle, environment, behavior and health. He points out that the conditions holding leading positions on mortality tables—e.g. heart disease, cancer, stroke, injury, diabetes—were in fact caused substantially by factors such as tobacco, diet and activity patterns, alcohol, toxic agents, and other potentially controllable sources.
¹³Mitchell S. Thomashow is a writer, educator, and environmentalist focused on innovations in sustainability and environmental learning.

¹⁴Margaret Wheatley’s work draws from many disciplines: organizational behavior, chaos theory, living systems science, ancient spiritual traditions, history, sociology, and anthropology.
¹⁵a way of thinking that values local ecology, culture, and community, and seeks to live in harmony with the natural world.

¹⁶Daniel Christian Wahl’s article, “Cosmopolitan Bioregionalism” defines cosmopolitan bioregionalism as “a way of life inspired by the desire to remain near Earth’s being and cosmic wealth, with all the existential biddings of respect and delicacy such nearness entails.”

¹⁷This list is adapted from Thomashow’s 1999 Plant Cold Acclimation: Freezing Tolerance Genes and Regulatory Mechanisms.

¹⁸Tony Fry is a designer, design theorist, cultural theorist and philosopher. The “sacred” means to consider architecture in a profound relationship with the space rather than just a housing need.