Tag: Gaia theory

  • Profile: James Lovelock

    Profile: James Lovelock

    James Ephraim Lovelock CH CBE FRS (26 July 1919 – 26 July 2022) was an English independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the Earth functions as a self-regulating system.[3] He invented the electron capture detector and, using it, became the first to detect the…

  • Profile: Elisabet Sahtouris, M.S., Ph.D

    Elisabet Sahtouris, M.S., Ph.D is an evolution biologist, futurist, professor, speaker, author and sustainability consultant to businesses, government agencies and other organizations. She is a US and Greek citizen who has lived in the USA, Canada, Greece, Peru and Spain while lecturing, doing workshops and media appearances in Europe, North, Central and South America, the…

  • “When I first saw Gaia in my mind I felt as an astronaut must have done as he stood on the Moon, gazing back at our home, the Earth.  The feeling strengthens as theory and evidence come in to confirm the thought that the Earth may be a living organism. Thinking of the earth as…