A PROPOSED ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY

A Review of The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Embryo Grading System and Proposed Modification

The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) method of embryo grading is unique, simple, and widely practiced, and its use has been mandatory for SART membership programs since 2010. Developed by SART in 2006, the current embryo grading system categories, “good, fair, and poor,” are limited because they do not describe the best 1-2 embryos in the interest of keeping pace with the shi...

New Zealand Ecological Society

Sustaining society with ecological capitalism

The research question is how to achieve a prosperous environmentally sustainable global society. The objective is incompatible with economic policies of full employment or of uninhibited use of non-renewable resources. Politically attractive incentives of smaller taxes are identified as a way of changing the way capitalistic economies operates by introducing ecological forms of owning and contr...

International Society for Ecological Economics

Humanity’s impact on the biosphere’s structures (e.g., land cover) and functioning (e.g., biogeochemical cycles) is considerable. It exceeds natural variability in many cases (Crutzen and Steffen, 2003). Up to 83% of the global terrestrial biosphere have been classified as be­ ing under direct human influence, based on geographic proxies such as human population density, settlements, roads, agr...

International Society for Ecological Economics

Is ecological economics mainly a natural science or a social science? Ecologists may start from a natural science perspective emphasizing positivism and value-neutrality as their theory of science. When looking for similarly inclined scholars in the social sciences they will find friends among neoclassical economists. But theory of science is not limited to positivism and economics is much more...