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The Artangel Longplayer Letters: Stewart Brand writes to Esther Dyson
In July, Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote a letter to Long Now co-founder Stewart Brand as part of the Artangel Longplayer Letters series. The series is a relay-style correspondence: The first letter was...
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Nature, Cities, and Long-term Thinking
photo by Tanya Hart In 01995, Brian Eno surmised that the fast-paced uncertainty of life in New York City led people to retreat into the immediacy of their own private worlds. As a counterweight to...
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The New California Water Atlas
Almost forty years ago, California’s young new governor faced the challenge of leading his state through one of its worst droughts ever. Around that time, a group of cartographers had been hoping to...
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Edward Burtynsky: The 10,000-year Gallery – A Seminar Flashback
In October 02008 Edward Burtynsky spoke for Long Now on The 10,000-year Gallery. Burtynsky, an internationally-recognized photographer, presented his ideas for a gallery of images to accompany the...
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Sylvia Earle & Tierney Thys Seminar Primer
National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence Sylvia Earle & Tierney Thys are among the world’s leading champions of ocean conservation. Through research, writing, and public outreach, they raise...
View ArticleStewart Brand: Reviving Extinct Species — A Seminar Flashback
In May 02013 Stewart Brand discussed De-extinction and one of Long Now’s latest projects Revive and Restore. Bringing back extinct species is a scientific pursuit that is loaded with both cultural and...
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Rachel Sussman in San Francisco: The Oldest Living Things in the World
Rachel Sussman spoke in our Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT) series in 02010 when she was about halfway into her project to document the world’s oldest living things. She traveled the world to...
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Multi-Millennial Portraits: The Deep Time Photography and Writing of Rachel...
The oldest living things in the world are a record and celebration of the past, a call to action in the present, and a barometer of our future, writes artist and SALT speaker Rachel Sussman in The...
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Sylvia Earle & Tierney Thys, “Oceans Alive”
This lecture was presented as part of The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking. Oceanic Tuesday May 20, 02014 – San Francisco Video is up on the Sylvia Earle & Tierney...
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Ecological Anachronisms
Evolution is a diligent innovator and the diversity it has achieved offers the curious seemingly unending marvels. In some cases, though, a particular innovation might not make much sense on initial...
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Craig Childs: Apocalyptic Planet, Field Guide to the Everending Earth — A...
In July 02013 author Craig Childs spoke to Long Now about his travels around the world. One of the world’s great intrepid travelers and story-tellers, Childs finds the places on Earth that are most...
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Go Animals: Jon Mooallem & Laurel Braitman at The Interval, August 12th
On Tuesday August 12, 02014 The Interval presents authors Jon Mooallem (Wild Ones) and Laurel Braitman (Animal Madness, TED Fellow) in conversation. Tickets are now on sale! Go Animals Tuesday, August...
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Mark Lynas: 9 Planetary Boundaries, Finessing the Anthropocene — Seminar...
“The Holocene is over and welcome to the Anthropocene our very uniquely human geological era.” In March 02012 environmental activist and author Mark Lynas gave a sobering assessment of Earth in the...
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Oxford’s Oak Beams, and Other Tales of Humans and Trees in Long-Term Partnership
Here at Long Now, we often like to tell the story – or perhaps better said, legend – of the oak beams at New College in Oxford. First told to Stewart Brand by anthropologist Gregory Bateson, this short...
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Scotty Strachan: The Great Basin in the Anthropocene @ The Interval January 6...
Photo by Scotty Strachan January 6, 02015: Scotty Strachan (University Nevada-Reno) Long Now’s Nevada: the Great Basin in the Anthropocene Tickets are still available This Tuesday a very special event...
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Jesse Ausubel Seminar Primer
On Tuesday, January 13, Jesse Ausubel will present Nature is Rebounding: Land- and Ocean-sparing Through Concentrating Human Activities, as part of our monthly Seminars About Long-Term Thinking. Each...
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Jesse Ausubel, “Why Nature is Rebounding”
This lecture was presented as part of The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking. Nature is Rebounding: Land- and Ocean-sparing through Concentrating Human Activities Tuesday...
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Michael Pollan: Deep Agriculture — 02009 Seminar Flashback
In May 02009 author and food activist Michael Pollan spoke for Long Now about Deep Agriculture. At the time Barack Obama was recently elected President, and Pollan takes the opportunity to give a...
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The Artangel Longplayer Letters: John Burnside writes to Manuel Arriaga
In April, Carne Ross wrote a letter to John Burnside as part of the Artangel Longplayer Letters series. The series is a relay-style correspondence: The first letter was written by Brian Eno to Nassim...
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Beth Shapiro, “De-extinction Science”
This lecture was presented as part of The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking. How to Clone a Mammoth Monday May 11, 02015 – San Francisco Video is up on the Shapiro Seminar...
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