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...York City, Paris, Tokyo and elsewhere. What makes this site more interesting than the ordinary blog is the strange standard for attribution—the artists are anonymous, but even those artists without a consistent alias can be identified by consistent qualities in their work. “Gaia,” for instance, can be distinguished by his or her fondness for stencils of wiry, spider-like creatures and natural forms. For up-and-comers, it’s not as easy to gain recognition. One of the site’s frequently asked questions...
...appeal (aside from personal charisma and his pet cat anecdotes) is that he that links up this modern disillusionment with a doctrine of apocalypse and redemption. In Jensen’s eco-feminist world, “nature” stands in for the divine entity; Gaia is the force for good, the all-embracing mother in a terrible violent world. “Civilization” is the rapist, the pillager, the lustful Satan. Jensen’s world gives everything meaning in the way that he taps into a feeling that many people share...
...Giving Earth a Voice I am an environmental educator who works internationally, and I bought the "Heroes of the Environment" special issue with great interest [Oct. 29]. However, I was disappointed to see Virgin tycoon Richard Branson alongside real environmental heroes such as Gaia theorist James Lovelock and Green Belt Movement co-founder Wangari Maathai. Although the writer defended Branson's inclusion, I am not convinced. I acknowledge that he is giving a large sum of money to scientific research for developing clean fuels, and this will certainly help our fight. But his environmental efforts are akin to offsetting long...
...clay and asked to make twelve pebbles, harkening back to man’s first playthings. Subsequently laid out against a blue cloth, they created a clay cosmos, around which the group performed a Greek circle-dance. Drawing upon scientific theories of both the Big Bang and the Gaia Hypothesis, Berensohn emphasized the idea that art precedes science in his impromptu dissertations on topics like the Bible, our existence as “terraqueous beings,” and the living goddess that is the Earth.“Clay is made of stardust,” he said.During...
...however, will hopefully be limited by the law. Already, there is limited protection: The 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act prevents some, but not all, group insurers from charging different rates based on genetic information, according to a 2006 Connecticut Law Review article by Seton Hall law professor Gaia Bernstein. What is needed is a more explicitly comprehensive law banning insurer and employer discrimination—like the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), which passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday in a 420-3 vote...