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  • 1 Sep 2022
    Bruce Clarke, Sébastien Dutreuil

    The Scientific Collaboration that Brought Gaia to the World

    With a two-page letter to the editor of the scientific journal Atmospheric Environment published in 1972, the English scientist and inventor James Lovelock (1919-2022) introduced Gaia into the professional literature.

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  • 20 Apr 2022
    Julian Caldecott

    Surviving Climate Chaos and Promoting Peace with Nature

    A note by Julian Caldecott, author of Surviving Climate Chaos to mark United Nations International Mother Earth Day and Earth Day 2022: 'Invest in our planet', 22 April 2022 ‘The causes of 'war' between people and nature lie in our recent world-conquering societies, business models and technologies. The key change occurred when a critical proportion of people gave up living from local production using muscle power, to live instead from global production using machines.’

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  • 10 Dec 2021
    Julian Caldecott

    International Mountain Day, 11 Dec 2021

    On this day we consider mountain ecosystems, peoples, wild species, water and weather, and salute their vital role in sustaining life and livelihoods. We also renew our commitment to saving montane environments from the casual abuses of lowland power and ignorance

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  • 30 Nov 2021
    Oxford Dodo photograph provided under creative commons license by Wikivoyage
    Julian Caldecott

    Lost Species Day, 30 November 2021

    Now we remember millions of species that died from centuries of war with nature. But we can learn from this, and build peace with nature instead. We've done this many times before, and to do so again we must remember and restore the old ways of harmony and sufficiency.

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  • 25 Nov 2021
    Julian Caldecott

    Surviving Climate Chaos: Strengthening systems against chaos

    The more small groups there are, and the more they talk with each other, the more valuable they all become, to each other, to local and national governments, and to the future.

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  • 15 Nov 2021
    Julian Caldecott

    Surviving Climate Chaos: Why climate change is wicked hard

    International agreements on climate change are compromises between everyone knowing that something must be done and no one being willing to pay for it.

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  • 8 Nov 2021
    Julian Caldecott

    Surviving climate chaos at CoP 26 and the demonstrations outside

    Truths are emerging though the CoP 26 talks, pledges, alliances, and efforts to align private capital with public interests, while governments try to reassure a scared and outraged public.

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  • 3 Nov 2021
    Julian Caldecott

    Surviving Climate Chaos: Leaving no one behind

    The most reliable way to ensure than no one is left behind is for vulnerable people to be watched over by neighbours who can alert public services and monitor the response.

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