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	Encyclopedia article: The Living Planet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Living Planet is a 1984 BBC television series (additional info and facts about television series) presented by David Attenborough (additional info and facts about David Attenborough).
		The sequel to his pioneering natural history (The systematic account of natural phenomena) series Life on Earth (additional info and facts about Life on Earth), The Living Planet was a study of the ways in which living organisms, including human (Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae) s, adapt to their environments.
		There was an accompanying book, and the series is available on DVD (A digital videodisc; a recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_living_planet.htm (181 words)

	WWF-UK: Wake-up call for Planet Earth as natural resources decline
		Planet Earth is suffering such a rapid loss of its natural resources - its biodiversity - that we are now eating into its capital stocks of forest, fish and fertile soil.
		The report is based on WWF's Living Planet Index, which tracks trends in populations of hundreds of species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish.
		The Living Planet Report 2002 is available for download as a PDF file (1MB).
	www.wwf.org.uk /News/n_0000000602.asp (743 words)

	EGO, THE LIVING PLANET
		Ego is a "living planet" with total control over its entire mass down to the molecular level.
		Ego possesses various internal features analogous to a living organism, such as gigantic tunnels which have been compared to arteries, and a gigantic brain-like organ deep below its surface, Ego possess both digestive organs which it uses when absorbing living beings, and an immune system which creates powerful antibodies to destroy beings which resist absorption.
		Ego possesses vast psionic powers, which enable it tap energy sources such as stars or to absorb the life energies of living beings, and channel that energy for its own uses.
	www.immortalthor.net /bio-egothelivingplanet.html (346 words)

	[Sustainable-ed] Living Planet Report 2004 Released (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Living Planet Index, 1970-2000 The 2004 report includes more sophisticated data sets, more detailed time trends, and more robust results than years past.
		During the same time period, the report's Living Planet Index shows a 40 percent decline in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine species populations.
		The Living Planet Report 2004 exemplifies the relevance of the Ecological Footprint tool for decision-makers and defines humanity's challenge for the 21st century: learning to live within the means of one planet.
	urbanoptions.org /pipermail/sustainable-ed_urbanoptions.org/2004-October/000053.html (463 words)

	WWF \| About WWF \| Viewpoint \| Living Planet Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This finding is one of several alarming trends documented in the 2004 edition of WWF's Living Planet Report (PDF, 816k), an index that tracks species abundance and human resource use around the globe.
		The energy component of the footprint, dominated by use of non-renewable fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas, increased nearly 700 percent in the 40-year period surveyed, from 1961 to 2001.
		In addition to showing increased consumption, the Living Planet Report also indicates a continuing decline in more than 1,100 terrestrial, freshwater and marine species, whose numbers have fallen by about 40 percent between 1970 and 2000.
	www.worldwildlife.org /about/viewpoint/living_planet.cfm (450 words)

	planets, as living beings
		The extraordinary notion that an entire planet might be alive or even conscious has been explored in fiction, philosophy and science.
		One of the first stories based on this theme was Conan Doyle's "When the Earth Screamed" (1929) in which a deep shaft is drilled through the crust to expose the planet's supposed living flesh.
		In Piers Anthony's novel Chthon (1967), a geologically complex prison planet is described as a "mineral intellect;" it communicates with other planets across the galaxy, hates humans, and plays a central role in the plot.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/P/planetsliving.html (219 words)

	EXCERPTS FROM THE WWF - LIVING PLANET REPORT - 2002
		We defined sustainable development as "improving the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems", and this definition remains as valid today as it was then.
		The Living Planet Index is a measure of the state of natural ecosystems, according to the abundance of animal species they support, while the ecological footprint compares countries' consumption of natural resources with the Earth 's biological capacity to regenerate them.
		In these scenarios, 9 billion people in 2050 would require between 1.8 and 2.2 Earth-sized planets in order to sustain their consumption of crops, meat, fish, and wood, and to hold CO2 levels constant in the atmosphere.
	www.geocities.com /cut2thechase_ca/lpr-2002.htm (893 words)

	Living Planet and Global 200
		Living Planet - Preserving Edens Of The Earth, is a new book out from World Wildlife Fund.
		At the Living Planet website, you can view some of the contributions from these photographers.
		The Global 200 identifies the most outstanding examples of Earth's diverse terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats areas where the Earth's biological wealth is most distinctive and rich, where its loss will be most severely felt, and where we must fight the hardest for conservation.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/wildlife/26323 (486 words)

	Living Planet / Dying Planet
		Like his D.B.S. project, which uses only the processed sounds of Sturgis’ own body, “Living Planet” and “Dying Planet” are composed from processed field recordings, appropriate to the theme of each disc.
		Turning first to “Living Planet”, this is certainly the lighter of the two discs, using samples of plants, animals, water and other natural elements to form lush, harmonic soundscapes.
		Overall, I find “Dying Planet” a harder album to swallow than “Living Planet” as I have never been the biggest fan of ambient noise, finding it easy to get lost in the textures and just overwhelmed by the brutality of it all.
	www.lan-formatique.net /immanence/reviews/notime-planet.htm (672 words)

	WWF-UK: Living Planet plundered of its natural resources in 25 years, says WWF
		Living Planet plundered of its natural resources in 25 years, says WWF
		A stark new report, the Living Planet Index, analyses the deterioration of the world's forest, freshwater and marine ecosystems between 1970 and 1995, and it reveals that global consumption pressure has doubled in a generation.
		The Living Planet Index reveals that since 1970, wood and water consumption has almost doubled; carbon dioxide emissions have increased two and a half times; freshwater systems have declined by 50 per cent; and the world's forest cover has decreased by 13 per cent.
	www.wwf.org.uk /News/n_0000000307.asp (233 words)

	Commentary: The 'Living Planet' Is Not So Alive After All (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sustainable development is defined as “improving the quality of human life while living in the carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems.” The phrase “carrying capacity” implies a certain anthropological and economic worldview that is quite at odds with Simon’s common sense insight.
		One does not get the impression from the “Living Planet Report” that the planet is living at all, but rather, is in the final stages of a terminal illness.
		If such a vision of man’s role on the planet serves at the basis for future policy prescriptions, the liberty necessary for the vigorous economic development of impoverished nations will be greatly diminished.
	www.acton.org /ppolicy/comment/article.php?id=95 (1205 words)

	Living Planet
		We have attempted to establish, in an aesthetic way, functional connections between the natural beauty of landscapes shaped by humans, and the beauty of nature as expressed in the contours of both animate and inanimate forms.
		But a new exhibit opening Saturday at the lethbridge public library gallery blends the two realms in a collection designed to show the linkages between what we see with the naked eye and the world as seen through the microscope.
		Living Planet: Macro — Micro Connection matches watercolor paintings by Hiroshi Shimazaki, a professor in the University of lethbridge’s faculty of management, with images captured by the U of L’s scanning electron microscope (SEM).
	people.uleth.ca /~shimazaki/livingplanet.html (634 words)

	Living Planet Report 2002
		The Living Planet Report is WWF’s periodic update on the state of the world’s ecosystems - as measured by the Living Planet Index - and the human pressures on them through the consumption of renewable natural resources - as measured by the Ecological Footprint.
		The Living Planet Index (LPI) is derived from trends over the past 30 years in populations of hundreds of species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish and is the average of three ecosystem-based indices.
		The global ecological footprint has grown from about 70% of the planet’s biological capacity in 1961 to about 120% in 1999 and is likely to grow to about 180% to 220% by the year 2050.
	www.eldis.org /static/DOC9963.htm (467 words)

	Wildwalk: Living Planet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		No living thing exists in isolation; each lives within an ecosystem — a community of organisms interacting with one another and their environment.
		Living planet allows you to look more closely at these communities from a variety of perspectives and locations around the globe.
		A multimedia show of earth’s major biomes provides a backdrop for exploratory investigation into the world of ecosystems and the complexity of their structure.
	www.at-bristol.org.uk /wildwalk/LivingPlanet.htm (142 words)

	WWF - Living Planet Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Living Planet Report is WWF's periodic update on the state of the world's ecosystems.
		The first indicator is the fcat that the Living Planet Index is derived from trends over the past 30 years in populations of hundreds of species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish.
		The 2004 Living Planet Report (PDF 816KB) is available for download.
	www.panda.org /news_facts/publications/key_publications/living_planet_report/index.cfm (366 words)

	Living Economies Essay, Korten
		The culture and institutions of the global suicide economy must be replaced by the culture and institutions of a planetary system of living economies that mimic the behavior of healthy living organisms and ecosystems.
		Now begins the real work of living into being a new civilization grounded in life-serving values and institutions that bring the human species into a mutually beneficial relationship with itself and the living planet.
		In its present form this essay assumes the reader is familiar with the evidence and the argument that humanity is in deep crisis and that the legal institutional form of the publicly traded, limited liability corporation bears major responsibility.
	www.pcdf.org /Living_Economies/I_Intro.htm (1439 words)

	SPACE.com -- A living planet? Mars' Water Cycle May Still Shape Its Surface (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While the planet was certainly once warm and wet, it is believed to be hydrologically dead at present, with nothing but thin wind acting to shape its red dusty surface.
		Baker and a group of colleagues have been active in investigating apparently young features on the surface of Mars features that are fraction of the 2 billion to 3 billion-year-old age commonly accepted as the age of the planets surface.
		The planet is so cold that any water within several hundred yards (meters) of the surface should be frozen locked up in a deep layer of permafrost.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_watercycle_000719.html (1155 words)

	One Planet, One Life & The Sixth Mass Extinction. Becoming Aware Of The Environmental Crisis / Catastrophe and The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cape Town - The health of the planet must become as important as anything else with the environment seen as a basic human right, according to world renowned palaeontologist and conservationist Richard Leakey.
		THE worst mass extinction in the history of the planet could be replicated in as little as a century if global warming continues, according to new evidence.
		LONDON - Planet Earth is going through its sixth and probably its most devastating period of mass extinction with scores, and possibly hundreds of species of animals and plants dying out each year.
	www.6thmassextinction.com /extinction.htm (1223 words)

	Living Planet Report 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Living Planet Report provides the first global accounts that summarize a critical trend: ecological overshoot.
		Using the Living Planet Index, the report demonstrates how the state of the Earth’s natural ecosystems has declined by one third over the last 30 years.
		Redefining Progress and the Centre for Sustainability Studies contributed to the Living Planet Report by calculating the ecological footprints of the world’s 150 countries with a population over 1 million, using 1996 data.
	www.rprogress.org /ef/LPR2000 (563 words)

	UNEP-WCMC Forest Programme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Living Planet Index (LPI) is an indicator of the overall state of the Earth's natural ecosystems, which includes national and global data on human pressures on natural ecosystems arising from the consumption of natural resources and the effects of pollution.
		The 1999 LPI primarily measures abundance and is derived from an aggregate of three different indicators of the state of natural ecosystems, being:
		Forest Ecosystem Index, set at 100 in 1970, shown on a five yearly basis, with upper and lower confidence limits shown (within the 95% confidence interval).
	www.wcmc.org.uk /forest/living_planet.htm (256 words)

	The Earth: A Living Planet
		The earth is a living planet where many complex systems run perfectly without stopping at all.
		The majority of people spend their lives without being aware of the delicate balances and subtle adjustments in the gas composition of the atmosphere, the distance of the world to the sun or the movements of planets.
		It is sufficient look at millions of dead planets in space in order to understand that the delicate balances required for life on earth is not a result of random coincidences.
	www.albalagh.net /general/earth_planet.shtml (1504 words)

	Planet Ark : Living standard seen slumping as resources run out
		GENEVA - Humanity is heading for a sharp drop in living standards by the middle of the century unless it stops its current massive depletion of the Earth's natural resources, according to a report issued yesterday.
		Entitled "Living Planet Report 2002", it said there was so much pressure on water supplies, forests, usable land and energy sources that within 150 years the planet could be exhausted.
		WWF figures showed that while the richer powers drew heavily on Earth's resources, many poor states and their peoples in Africa eked out an existence without drawing on what was available to them within their national borders.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/16777/story.htm (929 words)

	Footprint Network News - Global Footprint Network - Advancing the Science of Sustainability
		The Living Planet Report 2004 includes more sophisticated data and analysis, more detailed time trends, and more robust results than years past.
		The report's Living Planet Index shows a 40 percent decline in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine species populations during 1970 to 2000.
		As exemplified in the Living Planet Report 2004, the methodology behind National Footprint Accounts is highly versatile and offers many analytical possibilities.
	www.footprintnetwork.org /gfn_sub.php?content=lpr2004 (581 words)

	The Living Planet-education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Living Planet's Educational Programs are comprised of two mobile learning centers, four school-based Marine Science Centers, and a learning facility at Salt Lake Community College.
		So far, the Living Planet has reached over 168,000 students throughout Utah with these programs.
		The Living Planet is excited to announce the launch of our curriculum based field trips for grades K-6.
	www.thelivingplanet.com /education.html (178 words)

	ICN > Earth
		It is one of nine planets that travel through space around the sun.
		The planet Earth is only a tiny part of the universe, but it is the home of human beings and many other living things.
		They can live on the Earth because it is just the right distance from the sun.
	www.simoneast.net /worldskills_practice/earth.html (286 words)

	Living Planet 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Living Planet Report is an annual update on the state of the world's natural ecosystems and the human pressures upon them.
		The report includes the Living Planet Index (LPI), an indicator of the changing state of the earth's natural forest, freshwater and marine ecosystems.
		The 2000 report shows that the LPI has declined by about 33% since 1970 while humanity's Ecological Footprint on the earth has increased by about 50% over the same period, exceeding the biosphere's capacity to regenerate.
	www.greenbiz.com /news/fatearth/tools_template.cfm?LinkAdvID=7482&Type=Report (111 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Council not ready to kill Living Planet
		Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson may be ready to junk the proposed Living Planet Aquarium, but Salt Lake County Council members want the mayor — as well as their counterparts on the City Council — to think about things before killing the idea.
		The City Council, acting as the Redevelopment Agency Board, is scheduled to vote Thursday on whether to continue a free lease it has given Living Planet at 336 S. 500 West.
		By the end of March, the aquarium was supposed to have raised more than $2.5 million but only reached $1.8 million, including $320,000 in free rent at The Gateway for a 10,000 gallon shark tank and fish exhibit that has yet to open.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595057651,00.html (666 words)

	EarthLTD: Drifting continents, abundant water and advanced life forms — truly the living planet. See Earth in all its ...
		The Earth is often referred to as the blue planet.
		This is why efforts to slow down the widening of the 'hole' in the ozone layer is of global importance.
		The Ozone layer protects Earth's living organisms from the ">sun's harmful rays.
	www.earthltd.com (241 words)

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