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photo: Eco ConceptsYou can't help but to love Asheville, an eco-fabulous haven tucked into the picturesque mountains that consume the western portion of North Carolina. Recent construction in and around the community, however, has begun to cloud the character of this bohemian paradise. In response, the creators of a new "ur (Read More)
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from Delicious:
The noosphere is analogous on a planetary level to the evolution of the cerebral cortex in humans. The noosphere is a "planetary thinking network" — an interlinked system of consciousness and information, a global net of self-awareness, instantaneous feedback, and planetary communication. (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Kenji Williams is in Tokyo this week with his amazing Bella Gaia presentation. This video is from the digital planetarium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Using HD cameras and fisheye lenses, you get Kenji Williams on the violin with Kachun Yu running the visualizations. Because we all need a reminder of just how (Read More)
Submitted by Metapsyche:
The iconic environmentalist and originator of the Gaia hypothesis has a couple of cautionary words about the hubris of artificially fiddling with nature: "Before we start geoengineering we have to raise the following question: are we sufficiently talented to take on what might become the onerous permanent task of keeping th (Read More)
TreeHugger:
SciFi Was Never This Green And Sustainability FocusedFantasy can bring delight. Desperation triggers magical thinking. When the two come together it can get interesting. Planetary engineering ideas like injecting sulfur oxides into the upper atmosphere, for example, sound too Jules Vern-ish to be taken at face value, even (Read More)
TreeHugger:
Whether you love him or dismiss him, James Lovelock may be the staunchest pessimist around for the future of humanity on a warming planet. But the iconic environmentalist and originator of the Gaia hypothesis has a couple of cautionary words about the hubris of artificially fiddling with nature: "Before we start geoenginee (Read More)
Exoplanetology:
Super-Earth. It conjures a visceral imagery of an earthy ocean-blue in our minds. Just because it contains the word "Earth" brings people to think that it is similar to our world - full of life, and well...Earth-like.The truth is that it is a misnomer.The basis of any terrestrial exoplanet being called a Super-Earth is base (Read More)