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	Captain Planet: Gaia
		Gaia (Guy-uh), the spirit of Earth, is the protector of the planet.
		Gaia's health is connected to the health of the planet and she feels anguish whenever damage is done to the planet, its seas, atmosphere, or any living creatures.
		Gaia is a source of wisdom and advice both for Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
	www.turner.com /planet/gaia.html (306 words)

	Gaia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gaia (mythology) In Greco-Roman mythology, Gaia is a Greek and Roman goddess, also known as the Earth Mother.
		Gaia theory is a group of scientific theories about how life on Earth may regulate the planet's biosphere to make it more hospitable to life, includes the views of Drs.
		Gaia is the name of a space astronomy mission, due for launch in 2011 by the European Space Agency.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaia (493 words)

	Gaia philosophy Article, Gaiaphilosophy Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gaia philosophy (named after Gaia, the Greekgoddess of the Earth) is a broadly inclusive term for related concepts that livingorganisms on a planet will affect the nature of their environment - to make it moresuitable for life.
		The Gaia hypothesis deals with the concept of homeostasis, and claim the resident life forms of a host planet coupled with their environment have acted andact as a single, self-regulating system.
		Gaia theory is a spectrum of hypotheses, ranging from the undeniable to radical.
	www.anoca.org /earth/theory/gaia_philosophy.html (1706 words)

	Gaiascience.com
		Gaia, as a total planetary being, has properties that are not necessarily discernable by just knowing individual species or populations of organisms living together...
		Is the idea of Gaia only a romantic and dramatized description of the terrestrial biosphere and its effects, or is there a planetary being, whose life cycle must be counted in the billions of years, which spawns these evolving life forms to suit the purpose of its being.
		Lovelock points out that Gaia, being ancient and resourceful enough to have carried out these successive changes of the planet in spite of asteroid collisions and other setbacks, is herself probably not endangered by the relatively momentary depradations of the human species, as it befouls and cripples the bio-dynamics of its environment.
	www.gaianation.net /gaia.html (1406 words)

	Gaia Hypothesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Gaia hypothesis, when we first introduced it in the 1970's, supposed that the atmosphere, the oceans, the climate, and the crust of the Earth are regulated at a state comfortable for life because of the behavior of living organisms.
		Specifically, the Gaia hypothesis said that the temperature, oxidation state, acidity, and certain aspects of the rocks and waters are at any time kept constant, and that this homeostasis is maintained by active feedback processes operated automatically and unconsciously by the biota.
		The mean temperature of the planet is a simple balance between the heat received from the star and the heat lost to the cold depths of space in the form of long-wave infrared radiation.
	usaculture.741.com /Gaia.html (2310 words)

	The Gaia Hypothesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Lovelock defines Gaia "as a complex entity involving the Earth's biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a feedback or cybernetic system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical environment for life on this planet." Through Gaia, the Earth sustains a kind of homeostasis, the maintenance of relatively constant conditions.
		This is the crux of the Gaia hypothesis.
		One of these hypotheses was the idea that gases in an atmosphere on a "dead" planet would be in chemical equilibrium, that is, all the possible chemical reactions that could have happened would have happened and the gases of the atmosphere would be relatively inert.
	www.oceansonline.com /gaiaho.htm (4185 words)

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		Gaia, as a total planetary being, has properties that are not necessarily discernible by just knowing individual species or populations of organisms living together...
		Is the idea of Gaia only a romantic and dramatized description of the terrestrial biosphere and its effects, or is there a planetary being, whose life cycle must be counted in the billions of years, which spawns these evolving life forms to suit the purpose of its being.
		Lovelock points out that Gaia, being ancient and resourceful enough to have carried out these successive changes of the planet in spite of asteroid collisions and other setbacks, is herself probably not endangered by the relatively momentary depredations of the human species, as it befouls and cripples the bio-dynamics of its environment.
	www.angelfire.com /fl5/WOLFMOM/Page1.html (1742 words)

	Gaia Theory a summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Briefly stated and in the words of its originator, James Lovelock, the Gaia hypothesis postulates that "the physical and chemical condition of the surface of the Earth, of the atmosphere and of the oceans has been, and is, actively made fit and comfortable by the presence of life itself...
		And he began thinking that what he was seeing was not so much a planet adorned with diverse life forms, but a planet transfigured and transformed by a self-evolving and self-regulating living system.By the nature of its activity it seemed to qualify as a living being.
		Gaia, as a total planetary being, has properties that are not necesarily discernable by just knowing individual species or populations of organisms living together...
	www.gaiacooperative.org /theory.htm (1968 words)

	Gaia
		Some more traditional members of the scientific community have chafed at the notion of Gaia in part because it is sometimes referred to as a theory or hypothesis and perhaps also because of the use of the term Gaia (earth goddess, mother earth), with its spiritual overtones.
		Every nook and cranny of our planet's surface is covered with organisms -- at least 30 million species by some estimates -- all of whom are exchanging gases with the surface environment, leaving their imprint on the atmosphere and altering the surface of the Earth.
		Perhaps one of the most important aspects of the strong version of Gaia is that it includes the notion of purpose -- that all of the biological influences on the global climate are done purposefully, to create a stable, comfortable physical environment, an environment that is favorable for organisms.
	www.acad.carleton.edu /curricular/GEOL/DaveSTELLA/Daisyworld/gaia.htm (2346 words)

	THE GAIA HYPOTHESIS: IMPLICATIONS FOR A CHRISTIAN POLITICAL THEOLOGY OF THE ENVIRONMENT
		Gaia is significant because it fuses scientific insight and religious imagination in a potentially energizing and transformative way, challenging persons across a broad spectrum of disciplines to deal in an integrative fashion with the ecological crisis.
		Convinced that Gaia was robust and all-controlling, Lovelock had difficulty admitting that the pesky unfeathered bipeds of the human race could significantly injure it.
		For Thomas Berry, a Passionist priest and "geologian," the wellsprings of the Gaia theory are part of a continuum through which a new sense of the sacredness of the cosmos is emanating from modern science.
	www.crosscurrents.org /Gaia.htm (5505 words)

	The Gaia Hypothesis
		The Gaia hypothesis...suppose(s) that the atmosphere, the oceans, the climate, and the crust of the Earth are regulated at a state comfortable for life because of the behavior of living organisms.
		Specifically, the Gaia hypothesis said that the temperature, oxidation state, acidity and certain aspects of the rocks and waters are at any time kept constant, and that this homeostasis is maintained by active feedback processes operated automatically and unconsciously the biota.
		Dr Lovelock suggests that Gaia is at work to keep the oxygen content of the atmosphere high and within the range that all oxygen-breathing animals require.
	www.kheper.net /topics/Gaia/Gaia_Hypothesis.htm (1086 words)

	Gaia Hypothesis : Is earth alive ?
		Gaia hypothesis is one of the most interesting and revealing theory about our relation with our big home - this planet earth.
		This is the Gaia hypothesis which stipulates that the earth as a whole acts like a super organism and ensures the survival of all forms of life on it.
		Gaia hypothesis is an reinforcement of the fact that we all are interconnected with each other.
	www.meditationiseasy.com /app/Gaia.htm (1164 words)

	Lecture 1 - The Evolving Gaia Theory
		They are sometimes sufficiently irritated by Gaia theory to comment that the material conditions of the Earth were all explained completely by the abundance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the air.
		If the planet were lifeless, it would be expected to have an atmosphere determined by physics and chemistry alone, and the chemical composition would be close to the chemical equilibrium state.
		But if the planet bore life, organisms at the surface would be obliged to use the atmosphere as a source of raw materials and as a depository for wastes.
	www.unu.edu /unupress/lecture1.html (5212 words)

	Earth
		Pictures of the planet taken from space are of considerable importance; for example, they are an enormous help in weather prediction and especially in tracking and predicting hurricanes.
		Earth is the only planet on which water can exist in liquid form on the surface (though there may be liquid ethane or methane on Titan's surface and liquid water beneath the surface of Europa).
		The Gaia Hypothesis asserts that the biosphere actively regulates it.
	seds.lpl.arizona.edu /nineplanets/nineplanets/earth.html (1598 words)

	Gaia Sharing
		In short, the breakthrough glimpsed in the Gaia Hypothesis is handicapped by the lack of a crucial understanding that would decenter the human species from a privileged role in the cosmos and at the same time reintregrate it into a cosmic web of life exemplified in the symbiosis of all species.
		The Gaia Mythos is an opportunity to move ahead to a newfound rapport with Sacred Nature without placing the human species at the Omega Point of evolution.
		Story Synopsis This story is about who Gaia was before She united with the Earth, and how She came to be the indwelling intelligence of the planet and the mother of terrestrial species.
	www.metahistory.org /Gaia_Sharing.php (7187 words)

	Introduction to the Gaia Hypothesis
		More precisely: that about one billion years after it’s formation, our planet was occupied by a meta-life form which began an ongoing process of transforming this planet into its own substance.
		Lovelock points out that Gaia, being ancient and resourceful enough to have carried out these successive changes of the planet in spite of asteroid collisions and other setbacks, is herself probably not endangered by the relatively momentary depredations of the human species, as it befouls and cripples the bio-dynamics of its environment.
		The Ages of Gaia is easily readable for the educated layperson, but includes plenty of scientific depth.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /gaia/esp_gaia03.htm (1391 words)

	Why Gaia is Wreaking Revenge on Our Abuse of the Environment
		With anyone else, you would not really take it seriously: the proposition that because of climate change, human society as we know it on this planet may already be condemned, whatever we do.
		Thirty years ago he conceived the idea that the planet was special in a way no one had ever considered before: that it regulated itself, chemically and atmospherically, to keep itself fit for life, as if it were a great super-organism; as if, in fact, it were alive.
		Gaia has made Professor Lovelock world famous, but at first his fame was in an entirely unexpected quarter.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines06/0116-05.htm (1073 words)

	Gaia Hypothesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The truly startling component of the Gaia hypothesis is the idea that the Earth is a single living entity with the capacity of self regulation.
		In science, a Gaia theory is a class of scientific models of the biosphere in which life fosters and maintains suitable conditions for itself by affecting Earth's environment.
		Gaia philosophy is a broadly inclusive term for related concepts that living organisms on a planet will affect the nature of their environment - to make it more suitable for life.
	www.experiencefestival.com /gaia_hypothesis (2363 words)

	Gaia Holistic Circle \|\| Upcoming Events \|\|
		GAIA wants all living beings to be equally healthy and happy as long as they live on her planet.
		Our community of GAIA wishes to provide opportunities to share some of the latest, and most of the oldest, from near and far, knowledge and wisdom that may help us find the road to our physical, mental and spiritual health.
		GAIA aspires to transform trauma and pain into a collective quest for the real meaning of life, holistic health, healing, consciousness, creativity, compassion and social responsibility, which empower us to share, heal and serve each other.
	www.gaiahh.com (684 words)

	Captain Planet Season 3
		When the Planeteers show up, they learn that Zarm is behind a ploy to lure the villagers into a war over resources to feed their newfound desires.
		Gaia sends the Planeteers to convince the feuding parties to give peace a chance Ð but it takes her vision of a post-nuclear world to shock everyone into cooperating.
		The Planeteers are stunned to learn that they had 1940s counterparts who summoned Captain Planet to thwart Porkaloin's piggish plans, but Gaia mysteriously evades their questions.
	www.turner.com /planet/static/season3.html (982 words)

	The Gaia Hypothesis - Dr James Lovelock & Dr Lynn Margulis
		Skeptics had argued (and still do) that this Gaia was teleological - that it supposed the evidence of some design or purpose in the nature of the biosphere - in particular the adminsitration thereof - and that this was contra to the accepted position of Darwinian evolutionary doctrine which supported natural selection.
		His contructive criticism was that the Gaia Hypothesis may be better viewed as a collection of related hypotheses, which could be classified within a spectrum from weak Gaia (which related to the known evidence of biochemical cycles) to strong (as a form of global physiology).
		Such it was then, that at the closing years of the 1980's, although the Gaia hypothesis was still being debated from various traditional scientific disciplinarian viewpoints, the concept itself had promulgated a renewed research into the global (extra-terrestrial) perspective of the living and the non-living terrestrial systems.
	www.mountainman.com.au /gaia_jim.html (4580 words)

	Gaia Theory: Science of the Living Earth
		In a way these photographs were to the Gaia idea what computers were to chaos theory; they allowed one to see what was going on, and therefore brought the subject alive to a great many people.
		The planet revolves around a sun, from which it absorbs energy at a rate which depends on the sun's luminosity and the albedo of the planet.
		Feedback loops between the daisies and the planet temperature, contained in the equations relating growth rate to albedo, somehow conspire to maintain the conditions suitable for life.
	www.gaianet.fsbusiness.co.uk /gaiatheory.html (2703 words)

	What Is Gaia? Text by James Lovelock
		They showed our planet is made of the same elements and in much the same proportions as are Mars and Venus, but they also revealed our sibling planets to be bare and barren and as different from the Earth as a robin from a rock.
		Gladly we accepted his suggestion and Gaia is also the name of the hypothesis of science which postulates that the climate and the composition of the Earth always are close to an optimum for whatever life inhabits it.
		The evidence gathered in support of Gaia is now considerable but as is often the way of science, this is less important than is its use as a kind of looking glass for seeing the world diferently, and which makes us ask new questions about the nature of Earth.
	www.ozi.com /ourplanet/lovelock2.html (729 words)

	ESA - Space Science - BepiColombo overview
		Furthermore, it is difficult to reach it and to place a spacecraft in a stable orbit around it, due to the gravity of the Sun.
		This will allow to map the planet's mineralogy and elemental composition and determine whether the interior of the planet is molten or not.
		As long as Earth-like planets orbiting other stars remain inaccessible to astronomers, the Solar System is the only laboratory where scientists can test models applicable to other planetary systems.
	www.esa.int /science/bepicolombo (664 words)

	GAIA
		The first public announcement of his Gaia hypothesis was made in 1972, in a note named "Gaia as seen through the Atmosphere" in the journal "Atmospheric Environment".
		Models (see chapter 3) of Gaia predict that Life keeps the climate and chemical composition of the planet in homeostasis (a constant condition) during long periods of time, after which sudddenly the system dynamics change until a new state of balance is found.
		The examples are not intended as a final theory on the history of life or Gaia, they are examples of regulation that demonstrate how homeostasis can be achieved by the flux of chemical compounds produced or consumed by lifeforms during the long history of life.
	www.xs4all.nl /~mylab/gaia/index.htm (3131 words)

	Planet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Each planet, like all other celestial orbs, is composed of seven or twelve globes, in coadunation but not in consubstantiality, forming a planetary chain on the various cosmic planes, only those on our particular physical plane being visible to us.
		Planets are the outer shell of living beings and have evolved from cosmic seeds, passing through various stages including that of comets.
		Each planet of the solar system is in its own particular stage of planetary evolution, one planet being in one round of its own evolutionary course, another in a different round of its evolutionary development; and the substances or matters composing them are in respectively different states of materiality, ethereality, or spirituality.
	www.experiencefestival.com /planet (1211 words)

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		It is well balanced between advocacy for the planet and advocacy for humans, placing the onus on humans to recognize the lack of maturity involved in believing we can manage the planet, and to learn instead to follow its lead in organizing ourselves.
		Gaia, with its capacity for homeostasis, is an emergent property of this domain.
		Planets must have just the right composition and be in just the right relationship to their star to come as alive as has our Earth.
	www.ratical.com /LifeWeb/Erthdnce/erthdnce.txt (21586 words)

	introducing Gaia - Shamanism - tribe.net
		Gaia was the most courageous and daring member of our “family.” The gentle energy of the Pleiadian Essence was almost boring for our vivacious sister, and we wondered how to help our adventurous eighth sister.
		When Gaia learned of a new Solar System on the outer border of our new galaxy that was giving birth to planets, she desired to inhabit a celestial body in that.
		Gaia was always the “wild outpost” of the galaxy, which fitted her personality perfectly.
	www.tribe.net /template/pub,tribes,ViewThread.vm/threadid/f33fc667-cb01-494f-bea1-ae51834494c9/tribeid/18186099-2456-4e3e-a7f6-1d854fb40ab5/id/55553bfc-419b-4d34-8275-e0ec9b23ae77 (4346 words)

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