Want to live in a healthy, comfortable building that doesn't create
a massive impact on our planet's resources?
It's a new name for a new geologic epoch — one defined by our own
massive impact on the planet.
Not exact matches
Imagine a
massive impact creating a wave of frozen ice and slush sloshing across the
planet's surface, as though Jupiter had a few too many at a solar system pool party, tripped
on Saturn's rings, and knocked the frozen margarita machine all over Mars» face.
Dinosaurs are believed to have ruled the
planet from the beginning of the Jurassic period about 201 million years ago until the end of the Cretaceous period some 66 million years ago, when a
massive asteroid
impact, led to the extinction of most dinosaur groups
on Earth.
These
massive worlds would exert a herculean tidal force
on any small objects in their vicinity, and many would be ripped to shreds — like Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9 that was pulled apart by Jupiter's gravity and then spectacularly
impacted the
planet in 1994.
Research suggests a new threat to life
on Earth from the meteorite's crash: Via seismic waves, the
impact triggered
massive undersea eruptions, as big as any ever seen in our
planet's history.
Food systems as they exist already
impact the
planet on massive scales.
The
massive and continuing conversion of these ecosystems is having a big
impact on our
planet.
Self generation with small scale hydro, wind, solar, ground source, biomass makes infinitely more sense
on both the
impact on the
planet from
massive unnecessary infrastructure, and
on more sustainable living.
, the No
Impact Project, and you will join forces with Bill McKibben and 350.org for Moving
Planet Day
on September 24 — a
massive global volunteer day.
«We are realising that the Anthropocene is a phenomenon
on a
massive scale — it is the transformation of our
planet by human
impact, in ways that have no precedent in the 4.54 billion years of Earth history.