If you have mason jars lying around at home (and who doesn’t?), you’re probably wondering if you can fill them with stuff and put them in the freezer? Well, the answer is reasonably straightforward according to the experts that we…
A Sand County Almanac is one of the most influential books in land management and it nearly single-handedly launched a revolution in the field. It also, without really knowing it, touches on Gaia Theory and how the entire ecosystem can…
James Lovelock was the scientist who invented Gaia Theory, that of a biosphere which acts as a single complex system which we can affect as it, in turn, affects us. Homage to Gaia is his life story and it was…
In Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, James Lovelock originated the Gaia Theory that the biosphere of our planet is, in essence, a large complex system which we can influence. In Healing Gaia, he takes that idea a…
Gaia Theory is one of science’s most controversial topics and it began back in the 1970s with the publication of Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. James Lovelock’s original treatise on the concept, that we exist in a…
As an astrobiologist at NASA, David Grinspoon has a very optimistic message about the problems that we’re facing as a species. He’s summed it all up in Earth In Human Hands. Yes, there’s a big slice of climate change in here…
Many of our favorite books on Gaia Theory are those based in science, but Freeman Dyson’s From Eros to Gaia approaches the idea from a different viewpoint. Instead of science, he uses philosophy and the history of spirituality in the…
Gaia in Turmoil is a collection of essays from notable scientists that aim to acknowledge the current ecological challenges of our times and to find solutions to them. It is firmly rooted in the Gaian theory that the entire biosphere…
There have been few ideas, in recent years, which have upset the scientific apple cart as much as the concept of “Gaia” which was first promoted by James Lovelock. The idea is simple. The biosphere of our planet is a…
Fashion is one of the most wasteful and destructive industries in the world, in fact, it lags behind only the oil industry to fill the number two slot for the most eco-hostile industry on Earth. These awesome sustainable fashion documentaries…
Yes, you read that right, this book is about making gegan meat. Now, Mark Thompson’s not pretending he’s making animals, but he thinks there’s a science-based way to produce products that are nearly identical to meat from plants! Why We…
Fashion is not at all sustainable. The industry is the second-most polluting business on Earth! Garment workers are regularly treated terribly as well, with the fashion supply chain only serving corporations and business leaders. Things are changing though, in part…