Category: Gaia Theory/Science-Based Systems Thinking
2021 August Environmental Evolution newsletter
Posted by James MacAllister | Aug 14, 2021 | Adult Education, Article, Big History, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Ecology/Sustainability, Gaia Theory/Science-Based Systems Thinking, Higher Education, Lifelong, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12 |
Controversy rears its ugly head in the early days of James Lovelock’s Gaia Theory…or does it? Scott Gilbert’s been spreading the gospel of developmental symbiosis in many strange places–including Lithuania, Korea, and China. Frank Ryan, MD says “I regard Lynn Margulis as my mentor into symbiogenetics. I remain deeply grateful that she helped me to […]
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Posted by Betsey Crawford | Aug 6, 2021 | Biology and Earth Systems Science, Blog, Ecology/Sustainability, Epic of Evolution, Gaia Theory/Science-Based Systems Thinking, Lifelong, Resource I Created, Website |
When a human language dies, says linguist David Crystal, “what is primarily lost is the...
Read More2021.May.newsletter
Posted by James MacAllister | Jun 19, 2021 | Adult Education, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Document, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Gaia Theory/Science-Based Systems Thinking, Higher Education, Lifelong, Middle 6 - 8, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12 |
Dear Margulisians, When we were closing the Margulis Lab at the University of Massachusetts...
Read MoreSystems Thinking for a Climate Changing World.
Posted by Mike Bell | Mar 30, 2021 | Adult Education, Blog, Cosmic Evolution, Current Issues, Education, Gaia Theory/Science-Based Systems Thinking, Government, Higher Education, Middle 6 - 8, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12 |
We live in a radically climate changing world. Our problems are caused by our systems, particularly our economic systems. We can’t fix the systems. We need a new way of learning to develop new systems that are compatible with our changing world. This blog turns to a process that Margaret Wheatley called Emergence.
2021.1.envevonewsletter
Posted by James MacAllister | Mar 22, 2021 | Adult Education, Article, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Gaia Theory/Science-Based Systems Thinking, Higher Education, Lifelong, Middle 6 - 8, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12 |
The First Environmental Evolution Newsletter of 2021 Adriana Giannini, an Italian biographer, has...
Read More‘Making Peace with Nature’ Report Offers Sustainable Blueprint
Posted by Jennifer Morgan | Feb 26, 2021 | Article, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Blog, Current Issues, Ecology/Sustainability, Gaia Theory/Science-Based Systems Thinking, Government, Resource I Created, Science, Secondary 9 - 12, The New Story |
‘Making Peace with Nature’ is the title of a new report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Find out how it lays out a blueprint for solving our climate, biodiversity and pollution challenges (Photo credit: UN News)
John Lewis, In Memoriam.
Posted by Mike Bell | Jan 6, 2021 | Adult Education, Blog, Current Issues, Document, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Gaia Theory/Science-Based Systems Thinking, Government, Higher Education, Law, Lifelong, Middle 6 - 8, Religion/Spirituality, Resource I Created, Secondary 9 - 12, Social Justice, The New Story |
At the end of this year we remember the life of John Lewis, a leader in the struggle against racial discrimination. His life provides an example of how we might engage in what he described as “Good Trouble” to deal with the climate changing world we now exist in.
Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene
Posted by James MacAllister | Dec 9, 2020 | Adult Education, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Book, Gaia Theory/Science-Based Systems Thinking, Higher Education, Lifelong, Other, Other, Resource I Recommend (Didn't Create), Science |
From Amazon reviews “Where William Blake found the world in a grain of sand, Gaia finds the...
Read More2020.5 environmental evolution newsletter
Posted by James MacAllister | Nov 30, 2020 | Adult Education, Article, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Gaia Theory/Science-Based Systems Thinking, Higher Education, Lifelong, Middle 6 - 8, Resource I Created, Secondary 9 - 12 |
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