Gaia theory, crop engineering …

On engineering crops … Holding multiple truths simultaneously.

Vandana Shiva: How to decolonize the global economy

Can we engineer crops to withstand climate change?

Class Challenge:

  • Independently write down your greatest fear about the future’s environment and then under it a value that would combat that fear. 
  • Draw an image of an plant, micro-organism, animal etc.  that embodies the value you just wrote down
  • In small groups – pool the animals and using Image Creator from Microsoft Designe create a “Chimera” that represents a combination of the values you stated.
  • Class Feedback

The Gaia Theory

Lynn Margulis presents the Gaia Hypothesis at NASA

How to save humankind (according to James Lovelock)

The Anthropocene – why we can’t just go back.

“Man in the Anthropocene”: Lecture by Elizabeth Kolbert, winner of the 4th Biophilia Award

Or maybe we should stop overshooting?

Rex Weyler