Author : Kristin Ward
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 2019-08-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781732792326
Mother Earth has awakened, brought to awareness by the corruption of mankind, in this YA SciFi-Fantasy.
Author : P A Shaialazin
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2020-10-26
Category :
ISBN :
Little Laylah, a magical young girl with extraordinary powers, is escorted to meet the Grand Empress of Gaia Ladrieh on her 8th birthday, known as her Soul-Crown day. When she meets the Grand Empress, she's in for a big surprise! Little Laylah has been specifically chosen to accompany the Grand Empress on a special mission to the Stars.As they await the ceremonies and rituals for Laylah's big day, the Grand Empress tells her the story of her childhood and how Gaia Ladrieh - a beautiful Empire of magic, fairies, gardens, temples and palaces - came to be.The Empress tells her of her journey to the Mountain of the Wisdom Kings: a dimensional portal beneath a pond in the woods, where she entered into the world of the Seven Lords of the Cycles. By thinking upside-down and inside-out, and overcoming death and time, the Empress navigates their realms to uncover the Greatest Secret of them All!
Author : Rud Istvan
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1622122747
This illustrated essay concerns sustainability. Its simple thesis is that trees do not grow to the sky. Basic facts are used to figure Earth’s human carrying capacity. Soft food and hard petroleum limits are reached within present lifetimes. Liquifying other fossil fuels and biofuels cannot make up for future petroleum shortfalls given a world population at sustainable food limits, with present GDP levels. The issue is not yet addressed by public policy, although more serious and sooner than climate change.
Author : Gaia Cornwall
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1536220671
Working up the courage to take a big, important leap is hard, but Jabari is almost absolutely ready to make a giant splash. Jabari is definitely ready to jump off the diving board. He’s finished his swimming lessons and passed his swim test, and he’s a great jumper, so he’s not scared at all. “Looks easy,” says Jabari, watching the other kids take their turns. But when his dad squeezes his hand, Jabari squeezes back. He needs to figure out what kind of special jump to do anyway, and he should probably do some stretches before climbing up onto the diving board. In a sweetly appealing tale of overcoming your fears, newcomer Gaia Cornwall captures a moment between a patient and encouraging father and a determined little boy you can’t help but root for.
Author : Karen Bakker
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0262048752
A riveting exploration of one of the most important dilemmas of our time: will digital technology accelerate environmental degradation, or could it play a role in ecological regeneration? At the uncanny edge of the scientific frontier, Gaia’s Web explores the promise and pitfalls the Digital Age holds for the future of our planet. Instead of the Internet of Things, environmental scientist and tech entrepreneur Karen Bakker asks, why not consider the Internet of Living Things? At the surprising and inspiring confluence of our digital and ecological futures, Bakker explores how the tools of the Digital Age could be mobilized to address our most pressing environmental challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss. Interspersed with ten elegiac, enigmatic parables, each of which is based on an existing technology, Gaia’s Web evokes the conundrums we face as the World Wide Web intertwines with the Web of Life. A new generation of innovators is deploying digital technology to come to the aid of the planet, using spy satellites to track down environmental criminals, inviting animals to the Metaverse, and biohacking Frankenstein-like biobots as environmental sentinels. But will they end up doing more harm than good? In an engaging take on conservation technology, Bakker looks at the digital tech applications to environmental issues from predatory harvesting of environmental data to human bycatch and eco-surveillance capitalism. If we address these issues and mobilize digitally mediated forms of citizen science, she argues, digital tech could help reverse environmental harms and advance environmental sustainability. And in the process, Big Tech might be transformed for the better. With its uniquely broad scope—combining insights from computer science, ecology, engineering, environmental science, and environmental law—Gaia’s Web introduces profoundly novel ways of addressing our most pressing environmental challenges—mitigating climate change, protecting endangered species—and creating new possibilities for ecological justice by empowering nonhumans to participate in environmental regulation.
Author : Martin Lundqvist
Publisher : Martin Lundqvist
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2022-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Sensing that her death is drawing closer, The Supreme Deity of the Milky Way Galaxy decides to reincarnate into a human form to stop her demise. In the 1000th iteration of the universe, the True Maker senses that her death is drawing closer. In her visions, the only one who can save her is a human who is yet to be born. To prevent her death, the True Maker creates Gaia and sends her on a mission; to join the Zetan species and create the Garden of Eden on Earth to prevent humanity from going extinct during the Mount Toba Ice Age. On her quest to save humankind, Gaia meets the Zetan siblings Kailow and Areela, who escaped persecution on planet Zetani. Together they set out to find the magical Zeto Crystals, containing fragments of the True Maker's soul. Yet, there are others who seek the crystals for their selfish desires, corrupting the crystals to dominate others. Will Gaia be able to save humankind, or will the True Maker's interventions cause the very demise that she tried to avoid?
Author : Sarah Drew
Publisher :
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 39,35 MB
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : End of the world
ISBN : 9780692211663
An Ancient Wisdom Text Revealed . . . Both an ancient, "found" wisdom text and a sumptuous, epic novel, Gaia Codex reveals the hidden histories of a world long forgotten, the secret wisdom of an ancient lineage of women, the Priestesses of Astera. Set in a near future of impending societal and environmental collapse, the novel is a tale of hope and remembrance, as well as an inspired vision of humanity's origins and of the potential we hold for conscious evolution.
Author : Jude Currivan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1644115328
Explores how the Universe, our planet, ourselves, and everything in existence has inherent meaning and evolutionary purpose • 2023 Nautilus Gold Award • Examines our emergence as self-aware members of a Universe that is itself a unified and innately sentient entity that exists TO evolve • Shares leading-edge scientific breakthroughs and shows how they support traditional visions of Earth as a living being--Gaia • Rewrites evolution as not driven by random occurrences and mutations but by intelligently informed and meaningful information flows and processes Exploring our emergence as self-aware members of a planetary home and entire Universe that is a unified and innately sentient entity, Jude Currivan, Ph.D., shows that mind and consciousness are not what we possess but what we and the whole world fundamentally are. She reveals our Universe as “a great thought of cosmic mind,” manifesting as a cosmic hologram of meaningful in-formation that, vitally, exists to evolve. Sharing scientific breakthroughs, the author details the 13.8 billion-year story of our Universe and Gaia, where everything in existence has inherent meaning and evolutionary purpose. Showing how the Universe was born, not in an implicitly chaotic big bang, but as the first moment of a fine-tuned and ongoing “big breath,” she shares the latest evidence for the innate sentience that has guided our universal journey from simplicity to ever-greater complexity, diversity, and self-awareness--from protons to planets, plants, and people. She explains how evolution is not driven by random occurrences and mutations but by profoundly resonant and harmonic interplays of forces and influences, each intelligently informed and guided. In Gaia, the Universe’s evolutionary impulse is embodied in collaborative relationships and dynamic co-evolutionary partnerships on a planetary scale and as a wholistic gaiasphere. She reveals how the conscious evolution of humanity is an integral part of Gaia’s own evolutionary progress and purpose. By perceiving and experiencing our planet as a sentient being and ourselves as Gaians, we open ourselves to a deeply ecological, evolutionary, and, above all, hopeful worldview.
Author : Toby Tyrrell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 33,97 MB
Release : 2013-07-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 1400847915
A critical examination of James Lovelock's controversial Gaia hypothesis One of the enduring questions about our planet is how it has remained continuously habitable over vast stretches of geological time despite the fact that its atmosphere and climate are potentially unstable. James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis posits that life itself has intervened in the regulation of the planetary environment in order to keep it stable and favorable for life. First proposed in the 1970s, Lovelock's hypothesis remains highly controversial and continues to provoke fierce debate. On Gaia undertakes the first in-depth investigation of the arguments put forward by Lovelock and others—and concludes that the evidence doesn't stack up in support of Gaia. Toby Tyrrell draws on the latest findings in fields as diverse as climate science, oceanography, atmospheric science, geology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. He takes readers to obscure corners of the natural world, from southern Africa where ancient rocks reveal that icebergs were once present near the equator, to mimics of cleaner fish on Indonesian reefs, to blind fish deep in Mexican caves. Tyrrell weaves these and many other intriguing observations into a comprehensive analysis of the major assertions and lines of argument underpinning Gaia, and finds that it is not a credible picture of how life and Earth interact. On Gaia reflects on the scientific evidence indicating that life and environment mutually affect each other, and proposes that feedbacks on Earth do not provide robust protection against the environment becoming uninhabitable—or against poor stewardship by us.
Author : James Lovelock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0198784880
Gaia, in which James Lovelock puts forward his inspirational and controversial idea that the Earth functions as a single organism, with life influencing planetary processes to form a self-regulating system aiding its own survival, is now a classic work that continues to provoke heated scientific debate.
