Tagged with Eco-consciousness

We’ve made laws to protect our wild world from extinction and exploitation, yet we still imprison and gawk at nature’s most awe-inspiring creatures. What does our treatment of fellow Earthlings say about the legacy we leave for future generations? (more)

If Gaia is a single integrated organism, then mankind's pillage of the oilfields has been part of a natural process. We're scared and shamed by environmental degradation, but we're also amassing energy for future inheritors in a way that we ourselves can't envision. (more)

A robust ecovillage design could be successfully marketed purely on an economic basis, as a solid investment opportunity now and even more so every year further down the road of oil depletion. (more)

Is the Wall Street economic meltdown gearing us up for a food crisis? Or, will we find our way to a better world with values and nutrients as our arsenal? (more)

The Gort Cloud is the invisible network that connects thousands of environmentally aware people. In building their companies and developing their products, the Gort Cloud has played a role – even if they don't know what it is yet. (more)

If you are fortunate enough to share a neighborhood with a leafy elm, a gnarly oak, a soaring redwood, take another look at its silhouette against the sky. That self-similar 4-D explosion of branching branches is a clue to a cosmic riddle or two. (more)

The very way that we measure our progress is flawed. It's time to measure global economic activity in a way that reflects our impact on the well-being of people and ecosystems. (more)

Plastic bags take 1,000 years to decompose. A 16 year old student has developed a method that speeds the process to about three months. (more)

Biologists calls the current loss of biodiversity "the 6^th Extinction." This is not the first time that life on earth almost exhausted its available resources before discovering how to jump to a higher order of complexity. Will we figure out how to make a similar transition? (more)