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Category: Ecology/Sustainability

Fruitcake and the Magi’s Cosmic Gifts

Story tells of our struggles to respond to the fears of terrorism and needs of refugees in the midst of Christmas, 2015. A family struggling to know what they believe are visited by a caravan of wiseones offering unusual and cosmic gifts. The author weaves scripture and cosmology to create an entertaining and relevant expression […]

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The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth

Lovelock first sketched out his theory in his bestseller, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. People all over the world embraced the theory, and in less than ten years it moved from the margins of scientific research to the mainstream. Lovelock argues in Gaia Theory that such things as the level of oxygen […]

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The Thousand Names of Gaia

Written for the Rio de Janeiro meeting The Thousand Names of Gaia September 2014 Bruno Latour, Sciences Po For discussion only. English kindly corrected by Michael Flower “Since we are assembled for a sort of political, scientific and anthropological ritual in order to review, utter, celebrate, list, enlarge, narrow down, pin point, conjoin or compose […]

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Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution

from the publisher “Microcosmos brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology of the past two decades and the pioneering research of Dr. Margulis to create a vivid new picture of the world that is crucial to our understanding of the future of the planet. Addressed to general readers, the book provides a beautifully written view […]

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The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding

from the publisher “‘Knowing how we know’ is the subject of this book. Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical implications, for, they assert, the only world we humans can have is the one we create together through the actions of our coexistence. Written for a general audience […]

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Secret Chambers: The Inside Story of Cells & Complex Life

from the publisher “The appearance of the modern plant cell is one of the most deeply puzzling and unlikely steps in the whole history of life, and as Martin Brasier shows in Secret Chambers, decoding this puzzle has been a great adventure that has mainly taken place over the last fifty years. Covering the period […]

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Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail

from the publisher “*Immoderate Greatness* explains how a civilization’s very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ultimate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits combined with an inexorable trend toward moral decay and practical failure. Because our own […]

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Earth, Life, and System: Evolution and Ecology on a Gaian Planet

from the publisher “Exploring the broad implications of evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis’s work, this collection brings together specialists across a range of disciplines, from paleontology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, and geobiology to developmental systems theory, archaeology, history of science, cultural science studies, and literature and science. Addressing the multiple themes that animated Margulis’s science, the […]

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Being a Bee (Stories for a Better World, Video)

This film is the result of a 12 month Heritage Lottery Funded project in which Global Generation involved young people in exploring cultural creation stories and the scientific origins of the universe. The Bee story emerged as a central motif for where we have all come from and our role in defining where we are […]

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