Biosphere

PHOTOS: Mesmerizing Biological Delights

Carla Leitao | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Gelatin, Biology, Spheres, Locality, Physics, Architecture, Design, Science, Polymer, Material Science, Biosphere, Decentralization, Space, Hybrid, Biological Habitat, Water, Poland, Biological Materials, Zbigniew Oksiuta, Rpi, Autonomy, Biological Architecture, Genetic Engineering, Slidepollajax, Art Meets Science, Arts News
Carla Leitao

The expanding definition of "life" or "alive" is not only a consequence of joyful abuse of language and metaphors, but also the outcome of an increasingly able gaze upon the things that make -- and with which we make -- the world we supposedly know.

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Watch: Gold Mines Unearth Worms From Hell

Posted 11.15.2011

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Are You Surprised By Movies Anymore?

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Werner Herzog, Mother Nature, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans, Formula, Plant, Filmmaker, Nicolas Cage, Biosphere, Crocodiles, Venus, Albino, Reviewer, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Iguana, 3d, Chauvet Cave, Nuclear Power, Archetypes, Jungians, Love, Movie Trailer, Logan Hill, Logan Pollard, Jung, Venus-of-Willendorf, Venus Figurines, Entertainment News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

Werner Herzog is one filmmaker who defies the trailer, the reviewer and whatever formula you want to put on him. When I walk into a Herzog movie I ...

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WATCH: What 'Biosphere 2' Is Being Used For 20 Years Later

AP | By ALLEN G. BREED | Posted 06.26.2011

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ORACLE, Ariz. (AP) -- Jane Poynter and seven compatriots agreed to spend two years sealed inside a 3-acre terrarium in the Sonoran Desert. Their missi...

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Survival Instinct: Businesses Must Turn to Mother Nature

Gregory Unruh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainability, Innovation, Biosphere, Business Strategies, Business News
Gregory Unruh

It's time for the biosphere to figure into more strategic plans -- as a partner and a competitor -- that is constantly adapting.

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Economic Recovery Will Fail Without Our Trust

Jeremy Rifkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homo Empathicus, Globalism, Social Exchange, Empathy, Unemployment, Civil Society, Biosphere, Trobriand Islands, Economic Recovery, Books, Economic Turnaround, Adam Smith, Arianna's Reading, Empathic Civilization, Third Industrial Revolution, Books News
Jeremy Rifkin

Only recently, in the wake of the disastrous downturn of the global economy have some economists begun to turn their attention to the role social trust plays in providing the foundation for commerce and trade.

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'The Empathic Civilization': Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era

Jeremy Rifkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mirror Neurons, Gasoline, Empathy, Enlightenment, Economic Crisis, Renewable Energy, Copenhagen, Psychology, Biosphere, Neuroscience, Consciousness, Fossil Fuels, Communication Revolution, Sustainability, Empathic Civilization, Empathic Brain, Human Nature, Global Warming, The Empathic Civilization, Jeremy Rifkin, Third Industrial Revolution, Books News
Jeremy Rifkin

Our rush to universal empathic connectivity is running up against a rapidly accelerating entropic juggernaut in the form of climate change. Can we reach biosphere consciousness in time to avert planetary collapse?

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Climate Policy and Sustainability Management

Steven Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Cap and Trade, Environmental Policy, Copenhagen 2009, Technology Development, Economic Development, Kyoto Protocol, Renewable Energy, Globalization, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Climate Change, Management, Biosphere, Green News
Steven Cohen

The idea that the nations of the world would cede sovereignty over their economies to permit a global greenhouse gas cap-and-trade policy was misguided fantasy that is hopefully now laid to rest. So how do we move forward?

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