Technogaianism is a bright green environmentalist stance of active support for the research, development and use of emerging and future technologies to help restore Earth's environment. Technogaianists argue that developing safe, clean, alternative technology should be an important goal of environmentalists and environmentalism.
The Delta II rocket with climate research satellites, CloudSat and CALIPSO, on Launch Pad SLC-2W, VAFB
Biosphere 2 sits on a sprawling 40-acre (16-hectare) science campus that is open to the public.
An artist's conception of a human Mars base, with a cutaway revealing an interior horticultural area
The solar furnace at Odeillo in the French Pyrenees-Orientales can reach temperatures up to 3,500°C.
James Hughes (sociologist)
James J. Hughes is an American sociologist and bioethicist. He is the Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and is the associate provost for institutional research, assessment, and planning at UMass Boston. He is the author of Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future and is currently writing a book about moral bioenhancement tentatively titled Cyborg Buddha: Using Neurotechnology to Become Better People.
Hughes in San Francisco, 2012