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

 

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