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“The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. You must give to the rivers the kindness you would give to any brother.” – Chief Seattle We’ve built an astounding 91,843 dams in this country, and that…
You know the feeling — that subtle but persistent tug when someone does something nice for you. A friend buys you lunch and suddenly you’re planning another lunch so you can pay next time. Someone invites you to a party and you can’t stop thinking…
Wild salmon once coursed through rivers across all of northern Europe. They surged up American rivers throughout New England and the Pacific Northwest. Atlantic, coho, king, steelhead, sockeye, pink, chum — they migrated in numbers so immense we can barely fathom them today. But the…
In January 1922, representatives from seven states gathered to divide up the Colorado River’s water. They had a choice: listen to the science that warned them, or move forward with the numbers that promised them everything they wanted. Their decision would determine the fate of…
Rachel Carson has forever changed the way I see the ocean, and I don’t know how she did it. I was going to give you some passages depicting the ocean as a mother: who unceasingly circulates her bodily currents across distant shores and open seas,…
It’s no longer just about net-zero carbon emissions. Now it’s about net-zero carbon emissions AND climate restoration. That’s right, our new goal is to restore our climate to CO2 levels that will allow future humans to evolve and flourish. And we’re going to do it by…
For weeks after I read this book, I couldn’t speak about it without crying. Not because I was sad about what we did to the Native American people — I was, but that’s not why. I felt devastated that I had not lived my whole…
In the first 3 parts of this series, we learned what the Gaia hypothesis (now Gaia theory) is; what led James Lovelock to realize this planet’s environment was being controlled from the surface; and how Gaia uses life to keep this planet comfortable. In case…
In part 2 of this Gaia hypothesis series, we ended with the question: How to prove that Mother Earth lives? I like this question because it’s provocative, and it’s paraphrased from James Lovelock’s writing. It is, however, the only time I noted him to mention…
In part 1 of this Gaia hypothesis series, we left off with the question: What led Lovelock to suspect this planet wasn’t just a rock floating through space? At NASA, James Lovelock looked at ways to detect life on Mars by atmospheric analysis. He and…
As a budding environmental science major in the 1990s, the Gaia hypothesis is one of the first concepts I remember learning. It was formulated in the 1960s by James Lovelock, a scientist working in NASA’s planetary exploration program. The hypothesis proposes: “The idea of the…
In response to the question, “How do you paint a tree?” John Carlson wrote a beautiful section on the need to understand trees. “Know your trees, their nature, their growth, their movement; understand that they are conscious, living things, with tribulations and desires not wholly…
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