[geo] Re: patenting ideas

2008-12-24 Thread Eugene I. Gordon
Anyone with a geoengineering idea that seems potentially viable and commecially valuable and who wishes to get funded by someone who has commercial interest should not be discussing those ideas in this forum. They are essentially published here and therefore anyone (first to file) can get a

[geo] DVD Alert!

2008-12-24 Thread Alvia Gaskill
Discovery Project Earth, all episodes re-airing today on the Science Channel right now. In case you forgot, an 8-part series examining 7 different geoengineering technologies. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[geo] stepping back to remember what it's all about...

2008-12-24 Thread Andrew Revkin
Dear all, I thought you'd appreciate my holiday post on Dot Earth -- http://tinyurl.com/dotEarthrise -- which affords a fresh look at that remarkable view a few lucky astronauts have gotten of Earth rising over the sterile horizon of the Moon. If you haven't seen the Japanese VIDEO version

[geo] Re: stepping back to remember what it's all about...

2008-12-24 Thread John Nissen
Dear all, The Earth is very impressive - and we are priveleged to live on it, at a time when it provides us a benign environment, partly of our own making. This is personally how I see it... Although the Earth appears as a stable system, it has been through various crises, with five mass