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Terrapsychology is a word coined by Craig Chalquist to describe deep, systematic, trans-empirical approaches to encountering the presence, soul, or "voice" of places and things: what the ancients knew as their resident genius loci or indwelling spirit. This perspective emerged from sustained ...
Farming perpendicular to the slope of a hill or mountain, instead of straight up or down it, to minimize runoff and erosion. Including belts of cover vegetation between crops is known as contour strip farming.
Industry:Biology
A clay produced by weathered feldspar. Common in clays everywhere, including China, where its name comes from. Used to make paint, rubber, ceramic, plastics, and the glossy stuff they put on magazines.
Industry:Biology
When a political administration transfers resource oversight from public regulation into the ownership of those who support that administration so they can privately do what they wish with the resource.
Industry:Biology
A 1-5 scale of soil loss tolerance: the average maximum soil loss, in tons per acre per year, that still allows the current production level.
Industry:Biology
A 1-5 scale of soil loss tolerance: the average maximum soil loss, in tons per acre per year, that still allows the current production level.
Industry:Biology
A clay produced by weathered feldspar. Common in clays everywhere, including China, where its name comes from. Used to make paint, rubber, ceramic, plastics, and the glossy stuff they put on magazines.
Industry:Biology
An atom or group of atoms that carries either a positive (cation) or negative (anion) electrical charge because of having lost or gained an electron. Ions play a key role in many biochemical reactions.
Industry:Biology
A type of simple dry fruit that does not open at maturity (technically called a caryopsis). See Cereal. Global warming is believed to have cut world grain production by 93 million tons in 2003 alone.
Industry:Biology
Some perspective: to reach one billion people took humanity from its beginnings all the way to 1830. The second billion arrived in a mere century, the third in 44 years, and the fourth in 12 years.
Industry:Biology
Jointed, backboneless animals--namely, arachnids, insects, and crustaceans--often protected by a shell or exoskeleton. In evolutionary terms, this type of light armoring has proved very successful.
Industry:Biology
