The Answer To What Is Life?
What does it mean to be alive? It’s a simple question but the answer is one that has taxed brilliant minds over the centuries. In What Is Life? Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan have teamed up to answer the question…
What does it mean to be alive? It’s a simple question but the answer is one that has taxed brilliant minds over the centuries. In What Is Life? Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan have teamed up to answer the question…
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…