Nature-Culture Connection
Culture is society's relationship with nature.
Culture includes how society uses nature (air, water,
soil, habitats, etc.), views nature, values nature,
learns about nature, and takes care of nature.
Culture includes how nature links to and is viewed
in the media,
schools, education, health care, economy,
morals, ethics, government, science, art, language, etc.
Culture includes values,
including how people value and view
nature, the outdoors, and the land.
Culture includes food, art, clothes, housing, etc. and how people use nature to make food, art, clothes, housing, etc. Culture includes how people relate to nature with their food, art, music, clothes, science, technology, housing, education, the economy, etc.
Read more about how
nature relates to culture at
www.z-hub.org/culture/nature-culture.html
Cultural issues relating to people, community, culture, education, health, economy, and the environment:
● Holistic means Whole Culture.
I use the word "holistic"
not to narrowly mean herbal medicines alone,
but yes to broadly mean whole culture, including economy, education, science, art, the ways we live and learn and work, relationships with people, relationships with nature, etc.
Read more about holistic = whole culture.
● Landscape Architecture
Landscape architects create designs and plans to sustain and enrich communities and the land to benefit both people and nature.
Landscape architects help to guide communities and people to sustainably use and enjoy the land, the outdoors, and nature.
Landscape architects can help to influence the culture to guide people to live, learn, and work in ways that help both people and nature.
Read more about landscape architecture.
● Community. A community, a functional and sustainable community, is much more than just people, buildings, and roads existing geographically near to each other. A functional community is largely locally-self-sufficient. A functional community has a culture of community cooperation: people work together with each other and local nature to produce all the stuff (shelter, water, food, clothes, tools, art) that they need by using mostly local resources, and sustaining the resources. Community residents live, learn, work, socialize, produce, consume, and recycle and dispose of waste, within the community. They travel too and exchange information with the world; but, they mostly live, learn, and work within the community, and mostly consume local products. Think Global, Act Local. Global Love, Local Economy.
Read more about community.
● ABC Garden
ABC Holistic Education Garden of Three Oaks, Michigan, USA. See some of the class lessons learned at the ABC garden.
See ABC Garden
at www.z-hub.org/ABCgarden.html
Galien Valley Nature and Culture Program (GV-NCP).
Classes of nature and culture, science and art.
Galien Valley Nature and Culture Program runs interdisicplinary classes about nature and culture. Classes are informative and fun. Students learn how culture and nature relate to each other and how science, art, health, economy, etc. relate to nature too. Furthermore, classes include a few lessons on holistic skills as well as the ABCs of community, ecology, economy, science, art, and more.
See Galien Valley Nature and Culture Program website at www.z-hub.org/galienvalleyncp.html
Blog of Zoe at Galien Valley, about culture, and how culture and nature relate to each other. Zoe teaches interdisciplinary classes of science, art, nature, ecology, economy, culture, and more. Blog has many outdoor photos of nature, local wildlife, local native flowers, stewardship and landcare of local habitats, etc.
● Zoe's Daily Blog
www.z-hub.org/zle-blog.html
● Zoe's Monthly Blog
zoemonthlyblog.blogspot.com
● Science and Art unite.
Science includes observation, questions, research, knowledge, experiment, and learning the patterns of nature and how nature works, etc.
Science is what we "take in" (observe, learn).
Art is what we "give out" (expression, work).
Art includes expression, creativity, working, and applying science to make things of pleasing form and function. Science is the knowledge and theory. Art is the action, creativity, and making something. Science and art are connected. Art is the putting the theory of science into action to make something.
Read more about science and art.
10 Goals and Success Indicators of culture and agencies of GREEEPCH: goverment, routine daily work and business, education, ecology, economy, peace, culture, and health.
The 10 Joint Goals are to help communities to achieve the following
to become Sustainable Communities.
1. peace: morals-love-awareness-health-safety
2. protection: sustaining 16 priceless things
3. plaza: education space: ABC Garden
4. play and fun: outdoor time
5. no-poverty: plush local economies
6. palleee: functional community with EEE system
7. probing: community education
8. parks and pastures: local ecology
9. plait: holistic: sci-art-eco-eco
10. energy
Read descriptions of the 10 Joint Goals.
Culture of Holistic Sustainability
how to sustain and enrich people:
including 40 Sustainable Categories
Let's sustain and enrich people and our culture. We sustain people and our culture by sustaining people, nature, and communities. Let's have many people, many communities, and many agences in society work together on all
40 Sustainability Categories.
Sustainability includes recycling, reusable bags, shopping local, organic food, and renewable energies. Yet, sustainability deals with more than food, money, energy, and technology. Sustainability also deals with local communities, culture, nature, the outdoors, education, local economies, morals (connection and helping others: both people and nature), a mix of self-sufficiency and community cooperation, science, art, creativity, being holistic, and more.
Here are a few of the 40 categories:
1. Peace: Morals-Love-Awareness-Health-Safety
2. Pursuits: You, Your Unselfish Self
3. Planet: Nature, Near and Far
4. People: Family, Friends, etc.
5. Palleee: Functional Community
6. Probing: Community Education
7. Parks and Pastures: Local Ecology
8. No-Poverty: Plush Local Economies
9. Plait: Holistic: Sci-Art-Eco-Eco
10. Protection: Sustainability
11. Plaza: Education Space: ABC Garden
12. Play and Fun: Outdoor Time
13. Perspective: Stories of Peace
14. Partners: Cooperation, Democracy
15. Pep: Eight Health Categories
16. Profits-Local: Small Businesses
17. Eco: Ecology-Economy
18. Land: Holistic Landcare
23. Low-Tech: Sustainable Technologies
24. High-Tech: Sustainable Technologies
35. RRR: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
37. Wilderness: Conservation
Read more about holistic sustainability.
● Morals and 5 Ways to be Nice.
We implement the ABC Holistic Education Garden to teach children how to be moral: to do good, sustainable, and holistic things for communities, people, and nature. Also, garden lessons include learning how to be nice in 5 ways. It's important for each person to be nice in all 5 ways.
1. Friendly to People
2. Unprejudiced
3. Friendly to Nature
4. Help Individuals in Occasional Emergencies Help Individuals (people, animals, plants, etc.), Random Acts of Kindness, Save a Life, etc.
5. Daily Community Help, Holistically Help Communities via Community Culture. Boost quality of life. Sustain and enrich the community. Improve the economy in the long-run. Diminsh poverty.
Read more about Morals and 5 Ways to be Nice.
Famous Quotes, with Photos
Here are some quotes that support the concepts of sustainable communities, ABC Gardens, as well as moral cultures. Plus, photos of Michigan nature.
Read the Quotes.
● More Information on culture
● How do people define words?
z-hub homepage. See more information about every basic thing that is important to the well-being of people - and how everything links to everything else. See www.z-hub.org
