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	biophilia
		Biophilia attempts to absorb and synthesize users and their contexts, producing unpredictable patterns of propagation and hybridity.
		Within the installation Biophilia the participant and her shadow is synthesized into a larger cultural picture of self and place yet reduced to a derivative echo containing both, "resemblance and menace".The shadow resembles the participant, a virtual manifestation of the relationship the user has with the screen.
		Biophilia compacts the distance between subject and object, inside and outside.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /multimedia/mark/biophil/biophil.html (330 words)

	Newsletter 939 - Biophilia
		Virtually everyone is touched by such experiences even though we seem to be increasingly alienating and isolating ourselves from nature.
		Biologists call this phenomenon biophilia – defined as the human need for and love of natural places.
		Biophilia obviously speaks to protecting nature, but is also key to understanding illness since health is balance and balance requires connection to our source of life – nature.
	www.wysong.net /health/hl_939.shtml (718 words)

	Good news! Green views renew you! EBN reviews the how-tos. \| Gristmill: The environmental news blog \| Grist
		Biophilia is a notion popularized by biologist E.
		The thrust of the article is that biophilia is an underdeveloped element of green building practices, but one that has significant potential benefits.
		But with biophilia as a green design principle the emphasis does shift somewhat from the environment at large to the occupants within.
	gristmill.grist.org /print/2006/7/6/7135/04393?show_comments=no (661 words)

	Biophilia — Darwinia Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For readers familiar with Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Wilson writes as if "Biophilia" were one of the Endless, who are anthropomorphic personifications of ideas and states of human consciousness.
		Biophilia begins in journalistic style recounting Wilson's various expeditions to the Amazon river basin in search of elusive species of ants.
		It becomes obvious that biophilia is a major force affecting the way humans react to living organisms.
	darwinia.com /evopsyc/amazon_tool/0674074424/?depth:int=1 (609 words)

	Back to Biophilia
		The point is not that biophilia should not be a valid reason for conservation; it is that in many circumstances it has become ineffective as a tool because of the extreme detachment from the natural world that is pervasive in developed industrial societies.
		I believe biophilia should be wielded at the frontlines in the fight for the protection and maintenance of our natural world.
		Arguments for the preservation of biodiversity imply a presumed aesthetic value to nature, but most contemporary cultures have been so far separated from direct connection with the living world, with the organisms and ecosystems which support them, that they are content or complacent participants in the destruction and irredeemable exploitation of natural environments.
	gnn.tv /threads/22125/Back_to_Biophilia (1391 words)

	Biophilia - Information from Reference.com
		The term "biophilia" literally means "love of life or living systems." It was first used by Erich Fromm to describe a psychological orientation of being attracted to all that is alive and vital.
		Wilson uses the term in the same sense when he suggests that biophilia describes "the connections that human beings subconsciously seek with the rest of life.” He proposed the possibility that the deep affiliations humans have with nature are rooted in our biology.
		The biophilia hypothesis suggests that the positive emotional response that adult mammals have toward baby mammals across species helps increase the survival rates of all mammals.
	www.reference.com /search?q=Biophilia (400 words)

	WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Biophilia
		It's not a new idea--Edward O Wilson first proposed it twenty years ago--but in the last few years studies have begun to be done, showing it has significant and measurable effects on people's state of mind.
		Biophilia dovetails perfectly with green building because it involves giving buildings natural lighting and outdoor air, plants, water, and generally blurring the boundaries between building and landscape.
		Some success stories for Biophilia include Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater (widely considered the most important piece of American architecture in the last hundred years), ING Bank headquarters in Amsterdam (where absenteeism went down 15%), and Village Homes in Davis, California (which local real estate brochures describe as “Davis’s most desirable subdivision”).
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/000664.html (693 words)

	ET 8/95: Cultivating Biophilia: our love for the family of life
		Biophilia, which literally means "life loving," is defined by Harvard biologist, two-time Pulitzer prize-winner and the man considered the world's leading authority on biodiversity, Edward 0.
		Our need for nature, according to the concept of biophilia, goes beyond simple survival needs to encompass "the human craving for aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive, and even spiritual meaning and satisfaction," explains Stephen Kellert of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
		The fostering of biophilia and acknowledging its role in our emotional, psychological and even spiritual health may be the antidote needed to stop the "hemorrhaging" rate of species extinction, currently numbering 50,000 a year, 137 a day, six an hour.
	www.sdearthtimes.com /et0895/et0895s1.html (1187 words)

	Values and Vision \| Sustainable Ways Vol. 2, No. 1 \| Sustainable Community Development \| Adult Degree Program \| ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Biophilia, in which Wilson “combined [his] two intellectual passions, sociobiology and the study of biodiversity,” first appeared in 1984 (“Sociobiology at a Century’s End” viii).
		Biophilia represents a spectrum of inherent inclinations; however, in The Good in Nature and Humanity, Kellert notes, “But biophilia, while rooted in biology, relies—like so much of what it means to be human—on experience, learning, and social support for its functional expression” (“Values, Ethics, and Spiritual and Scientific Relations to Nature”; 62).
		Any presumption of the relative unimportance of the biophilia tendency among persons of lower socioeconomic status or urban residence may, in itself, be an elitist and arrogant characterization.
	www.prescott.edu /academics/adp/programs/scd/sustainable_ways/vol_2_no_1/values_and_vision.html (2051 words)

	Biophilia for as low as $14.91 at The Gaming Outpost. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Biophilia written by Edward O. Wilson is a book about the conserative ethic and moral reasoning, bringing a new perspective on mans place within the richness of species diversity.
		Biophilia as defined by the author as the innate tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes.
		I'm sure that was his intent, to reawaken us, to show how man is intergrated and plays an intergral part in the natural affinity of life on the planet, explaining that biophilia is central to the evolution of the human mind.
	www.gamingoutpost.com /shop/pr/0674074424/si/books/biophilia (730 words)

	Biophilia. - USWebPros Articles
		Virtually everyone is touched by such experiences even though we seem to be increasingly alienating and isolating ourselves from nature.
		Biologists call this phenomenon biophilia — defined as the human need for and love of natural places.
		Biophilia obviously speaks to protecting nature, but is also key to understanding illness since health is balance and balance requires connection to our source of life — nature.
	www.uswebpros.com /?Biophilia__26&a=1800 (693 words)

	The Biology Club of BSU (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Societas Biophilia is an ASBSU-recognized student organization that was founded in 1990.
		The main purpose of Societas Biophilia is to provide students with opportunities to learn more about biology, build resumes, and serve the community through leadership, teamwork, and participation in extracurricular activities.
		Societas Biophilia holds elections for President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer positions each year.
	www.boisestate.edu /biology/societas.htm (270 words)

	Dr. Goodall In Windsor
		Biophilia is the innate tendency for each of us to focus on life.
		Biophilia, when we think about it, is one of those “of course” concepts.
		Last year, for the first time, we recognized national and international figures, Dr. Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and Ron Kagan of the Detroit Zoo; this year, we are so honoured to be able to give our little symbol to a global heroine.
	www.jazzpurr.org /Goodall (319 words)

	Biophilia in Practice: Buildings that Connect People with Nature
		Kellert, who coedited The Biophilia Hypothesis with Wilson (Island Press, 1993) and more recently wrote Building for Life (Island Press, 2005), defines the concept of biophilia in the latter book as “a complex of weak genetic tendencies to value nature that are instrumental in human physical, material, emotional, intellectual, and moral well-being.
		Biophilia, she suggests, evolved as an adaptive mechanism to protect people from hazards and to help them access such resources as food, water, and shelter.
		If the biophilia hypothesis is correct, all human beings have carried its stamp on their genes for millennia.
	www.aia.org /nwsltr_print.cfm?pagename=cote_a_200608_biophilia (3181 words)

	Research: Biophilia
		In 1984, Harvard biologist Dr. Ed Wilson named this natural human desire, biophilia, "the love of nature." It is a feeling that dates back millions of years, to the age when the human brain evolved to attract us to elements and places that will most guarantee survival and reproductive success.
		The study of biophilia is our inroad to have plants placed in a prominent spot in the LEED certification on the developer's priority list.
		The study of biophilia is bound to improve awareness and provide proof that so many decisions are dependent on.
	www.planterra.com /research/article_biophilia.php (1483 words)

	Biophilia - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Erich Fromm also used the word Biophilia frequently as a description of a productive psychological orientation and "state of being".
		These can be presented separately or together: biophilia, love for humanity and nature, and independence and freedom." (c.
		Erich Fromm uses the concept Biophilia as an inverse to Necrophilia.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=189429 (188 words)

	MkzdK: The Biophilia Hypothesis
		Patriotism, the name we give to the love of one's country must be redefined to include those things which contribute to the real health, beauty and ecological stability of our homeplaces and to exclude those which do not.
		Patriotism as Biophilia requires that we decide to rejoin the idea of love of one's country to how well one uses the country.
		Encouraging our biophilia, preserving blocks of biodiversity before they are converted to concrete skyscrapers and asphalt parking lots, is a way of enhancing the possibility that human beings will persist into the future.
	www.mkzdk.org /biophilia2.html (957 words)

	Amazon.com: Biophilia: Books: Edward O. Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although they are masterpieces of prose style, they more effectively illustrate Wilson's own biophilia than his contention that biophilia exists as a general human trait...Wilson moves fluidly among minute observations of life forms ranging from leaf-cutter ants to birds of paradise, artfully pausing for a philosophical reflection here and a folksy anecdote there.
		Biophilia written by Edward O. Wilson is a book about the conserative ethic and moral reasoning, bringing a new perspective on mans place within the richness of species diversity.
		Biophilia as defined by the author as the innate tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes.
	amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/0674074424/nonzero (1649 words)

	BCSPCA-Biophilia Factor
		A describes as biophilia (simply, "the innate tendency to focus on life") -- and in his landmark 1984 book by that name, he suggested that the evolutionary history of human thought, language and socialization has been profoundly influenced by our species' relationships with other animals.
		Curiosity about memory creation led him to research and write a comprehensive paper on the role of animals in education, titled Animals, Children, and Related School Board Policy in the Elementary School.
		At the BC SPCA Humane Education Department, we are working with Boards, administrators, teachers, students, and the animal welfare community, to develop policies and programs that reflect and support our changing relationships with the animal realm.
	www.spca.bc.ca /educators/biophilia.asp (609 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The term "biophilia" literally means "love of life or living systems." It was first used by Erich Fromm to describe a psychological orientation of being attracted to all that is alive and vital.
		Wilson uses the term in the same sense when he suggests that biophilia describes "the connections that human beings subconsciously seek with the rest of life.' He proposed the possibility that the deep affiliations humans have with nature are rooted in our biology.
		The biophilia hypothesis suggests that the positive emotional response that adult mammals have toward baby mammals across species helps increase the survival rates of all mammals.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=biophilia (348 words)

	An Introduction to Biophilia and the Built Environment (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Edward O. Wilson in 1984, biophilia is the study of the human response to the natural environment and the relationship between humans and natural systems, which is, in its simplest form, a sense of place.
		While there has been a significant amount of study of biophilia and its implications for landscape design, little research or literature exists on biophilia and its connection to the rest of the built environment, particularly architectural design.
		While a lot has been written about landscape design and biophilia, Grant Hildebrand, a professor of architectural history at the University of Washington, was the first to make the leap of applying the concept of biophilia to the entire built environment.
	www.rmi.org /sitepages/pid1079.php (1884 words)

	Arousing Biophilia
		The title of the colloquium, which was sponsored by the Myrin Institute and the college, was taken from an essay by Edward C. Wolf, "Arousing Biophilia" (Orion, Summer 1989), in which he wrote: "To arouse biophilia, science is not enough.
		"Biophilia" is the word coined by E.O. Wilson for the human propensity to affiliate with other life forms, and Professor Wilson himself opened the event Friday evening with a talk on the conservation of biodiversity.
		The position of the serpent in religions and art is a very powerful example, and we owe a great deal to the art historians and others who put together that story.
	arts.envirolink.org /interviews_and_conversations/EOWilson.html (4486 words)

	Edward O. Wilson's Biophilia Hypothesis
		A somewhat controversial hypothesis put forward by Edward Wilson is the idea that humans evolved as creatures deeply enmeshed with the intricacies of nature, and that we still have this affinity with nature ingrained in our genotype.
		Wilson describes biophilia as the "innate tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes."
		Howard Frumkin recently build upon Wilson's biophilia hypothesis by citing research evidence consistent with nature having beneficial physical and mental health benefits on people [link goes to Google search for "Frumkin and Nature"].
	www.wilderdom.com /evolution/BiophiliaHypothesis.html (368 words)

	Biodiversity and the Biophilia Hypothesis: species preservation has never been so frightening. eugenics
		Edward O. Wilson likewise has criticized postmodernists for their attacks on science and Western knowledge, and now we have the evolutionists stooping to the same distortions of logic and clear thinking in pursuit of personal agendas to create a new religion of nature.
		This book merges evolutionary knowledge of our environment for survival, with an ethic of deep ecology that is as befuddling and lacking in coherence as anything I have previously seen written by those who claim to be on the side of neo-Darwinist empiricism.
		Another quasi-religious group of scientists could easily conjure up a new natural paradigm based on warfare (perhaps like the Spartans) and be equally content with a new culture based on love of animals but hatred of other humans (perhaps the genophilia hypothesis?).
	home.comcast.net /~neoeugenics/bio.htm (9878 words)

	Biophilia
		Biophilia is the love (philia) of Nature (bio).
		Edward Osborne Wilson popularized the word in a book published by Harvard University Press, 1984.
		It also appeared in the Stephen R. Keller book The Biophilia Hypothesis (Island Press, 1993).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bi/Biophilia.html (38 words)

	Happy by Nature
		Wilson was by no means the first to observe that we draw comfort and sustenance from the natural world: The ancient Egyptians created gardens to restore the spirit; Emerson, Whitman and Thoreau wrote memorably of the serenity that comes from being in nature.
		"I think we'll find [biophilia] has substantial societal importance tied directly and indirectly to public health." Everything from health care facilities, nursing homes, schools, workplaces and prisons to highway landscaping and urban neighborhoods could be enhanced by integrating nature into the design, he says.
		Hundreds of nursing homes around the country have embraced biophilia through an approach called the Eden Alternative, which gives frail residents the chance to do some gardening or pet a cat.
	www.lightforcestudio.com /site/789800/page/516927 (1503 words)

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