Welcome to the Gaia Community Network^TM -- your chance to participate and have a voice in the way we manage Our Earth. The GAIA CN^TM is a whole earth eco-browser and broadcast service that captures real-time imagery of the environment and impacts of climate change from people of all corners of the planet.

Currently, most of us follow the developing story of climate change through fragmented media coverage and/or through a scientific lens which leaves us to wonder "where", "when" and "how" climate will change.  We developed the GAIA CN^TN to enlist global participation. The GAIA CN^TM calls on institutions, companies and individuals to contribute observations and data related to their local environments --becoming the "Eyes of GAIA"; to observe, protect and manage the Earth. We often see "GAIA" as the image of the Earth in space but, through the GAIA CN^TM, you can connect your local environment to the pulse of the planet.

The purpose of GAIA CN^TM is to provide a forum for the world to learn and share the many issues, positive and negative, related to global warming, climate change and adaptations as they happen within communities. The GAIA CN^TM is planned as a long term project recording observations that may inform in unique ways, acting as a harbinger of local climate change and human impact. Currently, climate change models offer projections that are too coarse spatially for regional projections, too long-term to be of obvious use in the very near-term of the coming decades and too unwieldy to figure in rapid climate change due to climate feedback. The GAIA CN^TN is organized around the Earth's geosphere and biosphere, and offers links to relevant science and information about potential impacts of global warming. 

Gaia is a concept first proposed by James Lovelock to describe the Earth as a self-regulating living organism (See: Gaia: A new Look at Life on Earth, Oxford University Press, 1979). The name is drawn from the Greek GAIA for the Earth Mother Goddess. We use Gaia here to represent the Earth's complex, interacting biological and physical components, comprising a series of interacting ecosystems. They are both the source and recipient of materials and products used for lifeways of all cultures and organisms.

• PEM's philosophy observes the interactions between the Earth's biosphere and people of all cultures in real-time, in order to provide unique insights into our changing world. From the Arctic to the tropics, people of all cultures and lifeways are the "Eyes of Gaia".
•  PEM will launch a beta version of the GAIA CN^TM in the near future; its many exciting features include access for youth of all nations. 

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