Samuel Mitchell

We’ve all seen how awesome minimalist living looks when somebody like Marie Kondo shows us how they lead a meaningful life or we get a tour of the actual space in tiny houses. But who do we achieve the minimalist…

Antiwar and peacemovements have existed for nearly as long as wars have existed Peace movements are typically concerned either with ending all wars or a given war. We’ve put together a brief history of peace movements down through the ages.…

With a foreword by James Lovelock, one of the creators of Gaia Theory, you know that Elisabet Sahtouris’ Earthdance will concern itself with big things.  In fact, it concerns itself with two of the biggest concepts of them all in…

When the idea of “Gaia” was first proposed it was dismissed as new-age nonsense by much of the scientific community. Today, however, much of the original idea is considered to be scientific fact and those parts that weren’t? Have been…

With a foreword by the preeminent zoologist Gerard Durrell, you know that The Gaia Atlas of Planetary Management is a serious text.  It was originally published in 1984, but Norman Myers’ classic work has been brought, somewhat, up to date…

Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan go on the scientific attack in Acquiring Genomes and challenge the assumptions many of us have about evolution and the world around us. They argue that instead of being the dominant factor in evolution, random…

Gaia Theory is the idea that the planet functions as a single ecosystem “the biosphere”. This is not a flight of fancy but rather an idea supported by hard science. One of the first people to realize the implications of…

In Life As A Geological Force, Pieter Westbroek examines how life has an influence on the geology of the planet and also explores some of the holistic models of the geological Earth. If that sounds quite “science-y” that’s because it…

If we accept the idea that the biosphere functions, in some way, as a single living organism and we, almost certainly, must do so based on current evidence – then it should, logically speaking, have some sort of physiology.  That’s…

The Molecular Biology of Gaia is not light reading but this shouldn’t dissuade you from delving into George Ronald Williams’s compelling theory. Mr. Williams offers evidence that links the regulation of climate on Earth to self-regulating mechanisms in the cells…