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If you didn't see the James Lovelock profile on BBC4 last night then I really recommend it ( click here to see it on iPlayer - I don't think it's available outside the UK). The real star was the 90 year old Lovelock himself who told his story with good humour. Btw you can see my profile of Lovelock on Green Gurus here. Tags: james lovelock gaia theory bbc MORE
According to the Gaia hypothesis proposed by James Lovelock, the earth is considered to be a super organism, which contains both living and non-living organisms. As a society we strive for progress, and we have come to view progress as a state of productivity and consumerism. Along this road of mass consumption and industrialization, we have negatively affected the environment; in the U.S. alone, 24 acres per person is consumed but only 4.5 MORE
Note that this analysis does not take into account historical industrial pollution of the atmosphere (73% due to European countries) (see 2008 Letter of Dr James Hansen, NASA GISS, to PM Kevin Rudd of Australia ). Both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that only about 0.5 MORE
While there are indeed significant reserves of this within the Brakken Shale , however production of these is similarly constrained by various factors, as discussed by James Hamilton on the Energy Bulletin website and Robert Rapier of the OilDrum.com recently. Energy Baroness Worthington coal David Bellamy enviro neocons George Monbiot James Lovelock Mark Lynas neocons nuclear energy nuclear reactor oil peak oil UKI’m getting a bit worried about George Monbiot. MORE
I was largely relying on James Lovelock’s observations in that chapter; he has strongly and publicly changed his opinion away from short-term panic. Mark Tercek is the president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. You can follow Mark on Twitter @MarkTercek and find more of his writing on The Huffington Post. MORE
Both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson (Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that only about 0.5 Green Action Tip 300 ppm 350 ppm carbon capture CCS climate change Climate Genocide climate science Germany Global Warming green action James Lovelock Kevin Anderson Moving Planet Day MORE
Top UK climate scientist Dr James Lovelock FRS has estimated that 1 billion people or fewer will survive this century due to insufficiently addressed, man-made climate change. Photo credit: andriux-uk. Top climate scientists in the top scientific journal Nature recently stated that we have exceeded crucial planetary boundaries beyond which we are at high risk of unacceptable environmental change. MORE
A good eco book - Real Green Retail Group recommends James Lovelock’s latest tome, “The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning” · And, an organic bag to hold all you supplies – available from all good eco shops. by Michael Smith (Veshengro) For the upcoming festival season the Real Green Retail group has compiled a list of products and advice to provide festival goers with the materials and information they need to have their greenest festival ever in 2009. MORE
When James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis hypothesized that living organisms actively modified their environment to keep the Earth habitable in the early 1970s, they were following in the footsteps of James Hutton (the father of modern geology) who in 1785 imagined the planet as a kind of metaphoric “super-organism”. James Bond an Altruist?--Part MORE
by James Bruges published by Green Books November 2009 ISBN 978 1 900322 67 6 210mm x 148mm 96pp in b&w paperback £8.00 this scheme would need no subsidy: the farmer would make a profit.” – James Lovelock Charcoal-making is one of the oldest industrial technologies, and in the last decade there has been a growing wave of excitement about its potential for combating climate change. The author, James Bruges, was brought up in Kashmir until the age of twelve. MORE
Quite fittingly, scientists James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis called this the Gaia Hypothesis —Gaia being one of the ancient Greek names of the Goddess. If Gaia is our “Natural Mother” then Ecology is her language —Nina Munteanu. MORE
She was an amazing lady who was married to Carl Sagan for many years, and partnered with James Lovelock in discovering that the earth is an interconnected living global ecosystem run largely by microbes. One of my heroes, evolutionary microbiologist Lynn Margulis, died this past Thanksgiving. MORE
Both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that fewer than 1 billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-made global warming – these estimates translating to a climate genocide involving deaths of 10 billion people this century, this including 6 billion under-5 year old infants, 3 billion Muslims, 2 billion Indians, 0.5 MORE
2009 Chuck Burr LLC Notes: James Lovelock The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth Starhawk The Earth Path , p 44. by Chuck Burr at www.culturequake.org What is the meaning of life? Where do we go when we die? What is god? Important and unimportant questions for all of us. Here are some of my guesses to these and other life centering questions. Humanity’s Purpose We are literally here to balance the life process of plants. MORE
Thus both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that only about 0.5 MORE
Top UK climate scientists Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that only about 0.5 Top climate scientists around the World are saying that to have a high probability of avoiding a catastrophic 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise the World must stop GHG pollution by about 2050. MORE
James Lovelock published in a book in 1979 providing many useful lessons about the interaction of physical, chemical, geological, and biological processes on Earth. Lovelock defined Gaia as “…a complex entity involving the Earth’s biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.” MORE
The first two entries are for James Lovelock of Gaia fame and William McDonough and Michael Braungart who developed the Cradle to Cradle concept. I've started a new blog called Green Gurus (www.greengurus.com). As the name suggests, it will consider the contribution made to the environmental/sustainability cause by some of the leading thinkers in the field. It will be infrequently updated as these posts require quite a bit of research. MORE
We should live in a simple way for others to be able to live as well. Mahatma Gandhi He who is richer is not who has more, but who needs less. Zapotec saying, Oaxaca, Mexico [link] We suffer the severe effects of climate change, of the energy, food and financial crises. This is not the product of human beings in general, but of the existing inhuman capitalist system, with its unlimited industrial development. MORE
I’m sure this made James Lovelock (and Gaia) very unhappy, in view of the fact that real-world pollution travels around the globe, as seen by post- Fukushima radiation. The Gaia Hypothesis is a Lovelock thesis which sees earth as a single, highly complex and fully self-regulating living being). The first video game came not out of a developer’s studio but from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, in 1958. MORE
World-renowned scientist, James Lovelock, has won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 Observer Ethical Awards, in association with Ecover. Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia hypothesis, was recognised for pioneering a model that now forms the basis of climate science. Speaking about his win, James Lovelock said: “This is the most marvellous award I have MORE
Some older environmentalists (most prominently, James Lovelock ) have suggested that the fact that no future now awaits us in which our planet is not greatly depleted means the game's over. Lovelock in particular seems to enjoy saying it's too late to do anything to save humanity, but he's not alone among his generation. Image credits, top image: (left to right): Flickr/Si Jobling , Flickr/flydime and Flickr/James Cridland. MORE
In the vein of Lovelock’s “Revenge of Gaia” and Shane Joseph’s “After the Flood”, both based on predictions of an unprecedented rise in water level due to global heating, Bloom believes in being prepared for what may come. James Bond an Altruist?--Part The Alien Next Door Musings of Nina Munteanu, SF writer and Ecologist Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Polar Cities Reprised, Tsunami, tsunami, tsunami. MORE
Both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that fewer than 1 billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-made global warming – noting that the world population is expected to reach 9.5 Dr James Hansen in answer to the question “Is there any real chance of averting the climate crisis?”, MORE
Unfortunately, we’re now seeing nature’s great counterattack--or, in the words of prophetic scientist James Lovelock, who posited decades ago that the world functions as a single living organism he called “Gaia,” this is the revenge of Gaia 1. This is my reply to Nguyen Tri Dung and Ho Long Phi, to James Lovelock and all the thinkers and visionaries who work to preserve the best of the old world while steadily creating the new. NOTES 1 Lovelock, J. MORE
The contest will be overseen by a panel of judges, including James Lovelock and NASA scientist James Hansen. The slow realization that things we take for granted, clean water, fresh air and abundant uncontaminated food, are fast becoming distant memories occurred to Sir Richard Branson, when he said at a recent news conference in London, alongside former US Vice President and climate campaigner Al Gore “I want a future for my children and my children’s children. MORE
James Lovelock Related Topics Celsias
JUNE 11, 2011
World-renowned scientist, James Lovelock, has won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 Observer Ethical Awards, in association with Ecover. Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia hypothesis, was recognised for pioneering a model that now forms the basis of climate science. Speaking about his win, James Lovelock said: “This is the most marvellous award I have
Eco_Living
APRIL 15, 2010
If you didn't see the James Lovelock profile on BBC4 last night then I really recommend it ( click here to see it on iPlayer - I don't think it's available outside the UK). The real star was the 90 year old Lovelock himself who told his story with good humour. Btw you can see my profile of Lovelock on Green Gurus here. Tags: james lovelock gaia theory bbc
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Green Blog
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson (Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that only about 0.5 Green Action Tip 300 ppm 350 ppm carbon capture CCS climate change Climate Genocide climate science Germany Global Warming green action James Lovelock Kevin Anderson Moving Planet Day
Green Blog
AUGUST 3, 2012
While there are indeed significant reserves of this within the Brakken Shale , however production of these is similarly constrained by various factors, as discussed by James Hamilton on the Energy Bulletin website and Robert Rapier of the OilDrum.com recently. Energy Baroness Worthington coal David Bellamy enviro neocons George Monbiot James Lovelock Mark Lynas neocons nuclear energy nuclear reactor oil peak oil UKI’m getting a bit worried about George Monbiot.
Green Blog
JANUARY 14, 2011
Both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that fewer than 1 billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-made global warming – noting that the world population is expected to reach 9.5 Dr James Hansen in answer to the question “Is there any real chance of averting the climate crisis?”,
Green Blog
FEBRUARY 4, 2010
Both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that fewer than 1 billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-made global warming – these estimates translating to a climate genocide involving deaths of 10 billion people this century, this including 6 billion under-5 year old infants, 3 billion Muslims, 2 billion Indians, 0.5
Eco Friendly Daily
OCTOBER 18, 2014
The contest will be overseen by a panel of judges, including James Lovelock and NASA scientist James Hansen. The slow realization that things we take for granted, clean water, fresh air and abundant uncontaminated food, are fast becoming distant memories occurred to Sir Richard Branson, when he said at a recent news conference in London, alongside former US Vice President and climate campaigner Al Gore “I want a future for my children and my children’s children.
Green Home Blog
FEBRUARY 23, 2013
I’m sure this made James Lovelock (and Gaia) very unhappy, in view of the fact that real-world pollution travels around the globe, as seen by post- Fukushima radiation. The Gaia Hypothesis is a Lovelock thesis which sees earth as a single, highly complex and fully self-regulating living being). The first video game came not out of a developer’s studio but from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, in 1958.
The Alien Next Door
MAY 26, 2011
Quite fittingly, scientists James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis called this the Gaia Hypothesis —Gaia being one of the ancient Greek names of the Goddess. If Gaia is our “Natural Mother” then Ecology is her language —Nina Munteanu.
Eco Friendly Daily
APRIL 18, 2014
According to the Gaia hypothesis proposed by James Lovelock, the earth is considered to be a super organism, which contains both living and non-living organisms. As a society we strive for progress, and we have come to view progress as a state of productivity and consumerism. Along this road of mass consumption and industrialization, we have negatively affected the environment; in the U.S. alone, 24 acres per person is consumed but only 4.5
Green (Living) Review
JANUARY 26, 2010
by James Bruges published by Green Books November 2009 ISBN 978 1 900322 67 6 210mm x 148mm 96pp in b&w paperback £8.00 this scheme would need no subsidy: the farmer would make a profit.” – James Lovelock Charcoal-making is one of the oldest industrial technologies, and in the last decade there has been a growing wave of excitement about its potential for combating climate change. The author, James Bruges, was brought up in Kashmir until the age of twelve.
Green (Living) Review
MAY 16, 2009
A good eco book - Real Green Retail Group recommends James Lovelock’s latest tome, “The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning” · And, an organic bag to hold all you supplies – available from all good eco shops. by Michael Smith (Veshengro) For the upcoming festival season the Real Green Retail group has compiled a list of products and advice to provide festival goers with the materials and information they need to have their greenest festival ever in 2009.
The Alien Next Door
MARCH 22, 2010
When James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis hypothesized that living organisms actively modified their environment to keep the Earth habitable in the early 1970s, they were following in the footsteps of James Hutton (the father of modern geology) who in 1785 imagined the planet as a kind of metaphoric “super-organism”. James Bond an Altruist?--Part
Conservancy Talk
APRIL 24, 2013
I was largely relying on James Lovelock’s observations in that chapter; he has strongly and publicly changed his opinion away from short-term panic. Mark Tercek is the president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy. You can follow Mark on Twitter @MarkTercek and find more of his writing on The Huffington Post.
Green Blog
OCTOBER 21, 2011
Thus both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that only about 0.5
The Alien Next Door
MARCH 16, 2011
In the vein of Lovelock’s “Revenge of Gaia” and Shane Joseph’s “After the Flood”, both based on predictions of an unprecedented rise in water level due to global heating, Bloom believes in being prepared for what may come. James Bond an Altruist?--Part The Alien Next Door Musings of Nina Munteanu, SF writer and Ecologist Wednesday, March 16, 2011 Polar Cities Reprised, Tsunami, tsunami, tsunami.
Green Blog
AUGUST 15, 2011
Top UK climate scientists Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that only about 0.5 Top climate scientists around the World are saying that to have a high probability of avoiding a catastrophic 2 degree Centigrade temperature rise the World must stop GHG pollution by about 2050.
Green (Living) Review
JULY 31, 2014
James Lovelock published in a book in 1979 providing many useful lessons about the interaction of physical, chemical, geological, and biological processes on Earth. Lovelock defined Gaia as “…a complex entity involving the Earth’s biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet.”
Green Blog
AUGUST 1, 2011
Note that this analysis does not take into account historical industrial pollution of the atmosphere (73% due to European countries) (see 2008 Letter of Dr James Hansen, NASA GISS, to PM Kevin Rudd of Australia ). Both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that only about 0.5
Eco_Living
JUNE 29, 2009
The first two entries are for James Lovelock of Gaia fame and William McDonough and Michael Braungart who developed the Cradle to Cradle concept. I've started a new blog called Green Gurus (www.greengurus.com). As the name suggests, it will consider the contribution made to the environmental/sustainability cause by some of the leading thinkers in the field. It will be infrequently updated as these posts require quite a bit of research.
The Green Changemakers
AUGUST 18, 2010
Unfortunately, we’re now seeing nature’s great counterattack--or, in the words of prophetic scientist James Lovelock, who posited decades ago that the world functions as a single living organism he called “Gaia,” this is the revenge of Gaia 1. This is my reply to Nguyen Tri Dung and Ho Long Phi, to James Lovelock and all the thinkers and visionaries who work to preserve the best of the old world while steadily creating the new. NOTES 1 Lovelock, J.
Green Blog
OCTOBER 4, 2009
Top UK climate scientist Dr James Lovelock FRS has estimated that 1 billion people or fewer will survive this century due to insufficiently addressed, man-made climate change. Photo credit: andriux-uk. Top climate scientists in the top scientific journal Nature recently stated that we have exceeded crucial planetary boundaries beyond which we are at high risk of unacceptable environmental change.
The Green Changemakers
JUNE 14, 2009
2009 Chuck Burr LLC Notes: James Lovelock The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth Starhawk The Earth Path , p 44. by Chuck Burr at www.culturequake.org What is the meaning of life? Where do we go when we die? What is god? Important and unimportant questions for all of us. Here are some of my guesses to these and other life centering questions. Humanity’s Purpose We are literally here to balance the life process of plants.
The Green Changemakers
APRIL 28, 2010
Some older environmentalists (most prominently, James Lovelock ) have suggested that the fact that no future now awaits us in which our planet is not greatly depleted means the game's over. Lovelock in particular seems to enjoy saying it's too late to do anything to save humanity, but he's not alone among his generation. Image credits, top image: (left to right): Flickr/Si Jobling , Flickr/flydime and Flickr/James Cridland.
The Green Changemakers
OCTOBER 26, 2010
We should live in a simple way for others to be able to live as well. Mahatma Gandhi He who is richer is not who has more, but who needs less. Zapotec saying, Oaxaca, Mexico [link] We suffer the severe effects of climate change, of the energy, food and financial crises. This is not the product of human beings in general, but of the existing inhuman capitalist system, with its unlimited industrial development.
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