So far this series has covered the history of Life and our Life-support system’s architecture. This post talks about what other Life does for us. Guess what keeps us alive, is smarter than any computer, and is the thing that made humanity biologically possible in the first place? …

A “stack” is what software engineers call the layers of interacting technologies (they build) to make your phone work. “The biosphere” is Earth’s composition of life and living ecosystems. Biosphere Earth. How do the clothes you’re wearing right now relate to “the biosphere”? The Oxford English Dictionary defines the biosphere…

This series explores Earth’s life support system and how it affects the climate solution. Here is part 1. Science’s timeline of Life’s history.

Hello, Friends. Here is BioIntegrity’s March email: More profound thoughts for your consideration. Biosphere, first. Nothing is more important than the human life-support system. …

My favorite summary of what “Shmita” is all about. Proud plug: Join us Tuesday night, March 1st, if you can, on Zoom, here’s info: https://tinyurl.com/shmitalive.

We have the opportunity to reduce global temperatures 0.5C, maybe more, if we get serious about protecting and regrowing other life.

Here’s the #1 way we could go “net zero” very soon, doing the best we can for our planetary life-support system. This piece synopsizes some of that math. This article is an explainer for the updated math in my piece The Value of Biosphere Earth, pt. 7: Carbon. *ACTUALLY, I…

What really makes the world go round? This week I want to emphasize the two most recent chapters of The Value of Biosphere Earth series, in this super short synopsis. Above is the key graphic from Vegetation Controls Climate, part 2. In a nutshell it shows: Forests are the most…