Redesign the Planet
We urge you to participate in the Redesigning the Planet volumes. They are free, and you can download the table of Contents or each book (in pdf format).
Foundation for Redesigning Places Regions & the Planet, Volume 0: Download the Table of Contents or the
book.
Redesigning Local Systems in the Planet, Volume 1: Download the Table of Contents or the
book.
Redesigning Regions in the Planet, Volume 2: Download the Table of Contents or the
book.
Redesigning the Planet, Volume 3: Download the Table of Contents or the book.
You can make suggestions or add new sections to it. Send changes to editor@redesignpla.net Or visit the wiki at google.com or wikia.com
We also urge you to participate in Global Emergency Actions. Please look at the contents or buy this book.
Can we design the planet?
After all, the planet, Gaia, or nature or earth, is self-making and self-designing. However, we humans now influence every natural system, taking what we need from some ecosystems, enhancing a few, misusing others, and interfering with the rest. We need good ecological designs to restore the balance between human needs and natural processes. Ecological designs have worked in local systems, such as forests and fields. Regional systems, such as the Palouse Grasslands in the United States or the North Slope of Alaska, have been designed. Without a global context, many local and regional designs may not succeed for very long. Now, we need to pay attention to the planetary context. Let us start with questions to define our approach.
Does ecological design imitate nature?
What can design learn from nature?
Attention to characteristics of an ecosystem?
How does global design apply principles to ecosystems?
How is global ecological design different?
How can we start global ecological design?
Does that require different levels of design?
How would this work specifically?
What is the SynGeo method of global ecological design?
Who would start global design?
How would the results of designs be managed?
Why should we try to design the planet?
Do we need a global institution or authority to accomplish this?
What steps would it take immediately?
What would a global design look like?
What kind of human population?
How would it be fair and equitable?
Obviously there are more questions. Ask them yourself! Start to answer them yourself! Involve others!
We started. You can see what we are trying to do at syngeo.org (the ecological dimension) and eutopias.net (the cultural and political dimension).
To visit for reading, commenting, adding, or editing, the wiki at Ringling College ÔCampus ConnectionsÕ press here (you may have to go there directly). To enter anonymously, type Òanon@eutopias.netÓ for the user id and ÒglobalÓ as the password.