The Evolution-Local Glossary of Terms
[A work-in-progress]
Realizing that some terms that are tossed around on this website that may be unfamiliar to the reader.
Abrupt climate change:
Activate:
Anarchy:
Anthropocene:
Arctic Amplification:
Bioregion: a life place
Collapse:
Commons:
Commoner:
Commoning:
Cosmogenesis:
Dharma:
Earth community:
Epic of Evolution: see Universe Story
Evolutionary being:
Evolutionary consciousness:
Great Work/Great Transition: Can be used interchangeably. “Great Work” implies that we need to get up every morning and make it happen – it is not a transition that is somehow happening on its own.
Hegemony:
Long Emergency:
Neoliberal:
Permaculture:
Reinhabit
Reinhabitant: a bioregionalist
Self-organizing:
Thrivalist: similar to a survivalist, but with less camo, guns, and paranoia. More about co-creation and less about being the last man standing.
Universe Story: see Epic of Evolution