Tag: Earth Sciences

  • How the earth heals itself after an earthquake

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    Becky Oskin writes a fascinating piece,  at Mother Nature Network, about how the earth heals itself after an earthquake: For the first time, scientists have watched the Earth heal itself after an earthquake. The process is similar to the body repairing a cut, researchers from China and the United States reported on June 27 in the journal…

  • New Paradigm: Earth Democracy

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    Vandana Shiva has long advocated that we change our worldview from separation from nature to connectedness with it.  In this excerpt from her essay New Paradigm:  Earth Democracy, she addresses the root of the problem and urges us to again become part of the Earth community: The same technological and economic systems that violate the…