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Nature 450, 797 (6 December 2007) | doi:10.1038/450797a; Published online 5 December 2007
Earth Monitoring: Whole Earth comes into focus
Stewart Brand1
- Stewart Brand founded and edited the Whole Earth Catalog. He is president of the Long Now Foundation, co-founder of Global Business Network. His next book, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto, will be published in late 2008 by Viking-Penguin.
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Abstract
To understand how our planet uses energy, we must integrate genetic data from microbial studies with satellite views of our planet.
Two vastly different but complementary projects could transform our understanding of Earth. The long-standing mystery of how microbes run the world is closer to being solved, thanks to metagenomics — the DNA sequencing of whole populations of microbial life.
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