Flying over the Oregon countryside recently, my breath was taken away by the rolling terrain of Cascade mountain slopes blanketed with lush pine forest. It was almost a conversion experience, similar to the first view of our planet from space which inspired Earth Day in 1970 and jump-started the environmental movement. Continue reading
A few years ago the concept of geoengineering (modifying the entire surface or atmosphere of the Earth) was firmly in the realm of science fiction. Tinkering with the planet is a serious consideration for economists, governments, and even private entrepreneurs. Continue reading
A state shift is the point at which something – a material, a nation, the earth – reaches a tipping point and flips over into something radically different. Water turns into ice; peasants turn on the king; a protein folds. Continue reading
