The GEC Universe...I


The GEC Universe...is BIG.

This blog presents reports on domain-scale processes and trends underway in the planetary atmosphere, the hydrosphere (oceans, lakes & rivers), and lithosphere (the world's land base).

Overlay that with the planet's biosphere, the diverse array of living animals and plants interacting with the physical domains, and we are staring at a layered, dynamic, interdependent set of variables describing earth's operating framework.

Lastly, we add the human element, the anthrosphere. Even though we humans are essentially part of the planetary whole, we are also the dominant species and influence to a mighty degree all that goes on in the other domains.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

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2 comments:

  1. Very interesting article. I have something you should check into also. Biomass energy. Check out my client Alternative Energy Solutions International, Inc. in Wichita Kansas. They are installing bio-mass boiler/burner systems that use the waste products of a company to generate energy in a way that has almost no adverse by products. The main by product is ash and that is used ultimately in fertilizer. By using its own waste to produce energy, companies can reduce their “land fill” wastes (and costs) as well as reduce their consumption of oil based fuels. It’s a win/win scenario for everyone. Check it out at www.aesintl.net.

    Alta Wilson
    Tax Manager at Allard & Company PA
    Fayetteville, Arkansas Area

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  2. Very interesting. If you have not run into them, check out Katie McCammant and Chuck Chuck Durrett. The two architects live in Nevada City Cohousing; they brought cohousing to North America from Denmark in the 1980s. Their first project was in Davis late 90s. (Their are now over 150.) I always liked Doxiadis and ekistics: the design of human settlements. Cohousing and ecovillage developments and retrofits are pragmatic game changers to the philosophies and approaches that you describe. Currently reading Jared Diamond's Collapse, which puts climate change discussion in a broader context of man over 1000s of years, which brings one back to settlement design. Thanks for blogging!

    William Corey Trench II
    Writer, Film Producer
    Williamsburg, Virginia

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