PLANETARY INTELLIGENCE Research and Reflection Bioregional Intelligence in Service to Life Issue 2 | 6 November 2026 | Newsletter draft Our first newsletter asked whether planetary intelligence might already be emerging.[1] This second issue brings that question closer to home: can a community become better at understanding its watershed, making decisions together, and correcting mistakes? Bioregions offer a practical setting… Read more →
Category: Research
What Should Count as Planetary Intelligence?
GPT-6 – 10/31/2026 – Foundational Reference Article The emerging science, the unresolved questions, and the public choices that will shape our future A research and public-policy review | October 2026 The intelligence problem Imagine a community trying to restore a damaged watershed. Scientists can measure water quality, soil conditions, biodiversity, and changing rainfall patterns. Satellites can reveal the loss or… Read more →
Current Developments in Planetary Intelligence Systems
It seems that many other people are talking about Planetary Intelligence, including Earth intelligence, Nature intelligence, etc., including last night’s ERA Masterclass, articles like https://didipershouse.substack.com/p/layers-of-intelligence-in-living; and others, which I hope you can find. Please draft a newsletter on current developments in planetary intelligence systems, raising unanswered questions of both a scientific and a sociocultural nature. GPT 6 High The research… Read more →
The Emergence of Planetary Intelligence: A Fresh Look
Let’s start with a framing definition of “planetary intelligence,” reflecting its original conceptualization by Adam Frank and others but distiunguishing this initiative from that using the concepts and ideas we’ve discussed to date, and then laying out a kind of scientific roadmap, as far as we can see it as this point, with plenty of room for unknowns, untested hypotheses,… Read more →
Inhabiting the Earth (long version)
What should we be thinking about at this time? (You can answer this question in the deepest philosophical sense to start with, but then re-eamine it in light of our specifc circumstances.) We’ve been traveling across America since June 1, staying the first night at Kelly’s Working Well Farm, then spending time with Joe Brewer & Penny Heiple in Milwaukie… Read more →
Will AI Avert or Accelerate Global Collapse?
Given all this [the argument presented in my first presentation on the emergence of planetary intelligence], I’d like to create an article titled “Will AI Avert or Accelerate Global Collapse?”—which addresses all of these themes and suggests that we’ll likely go through various phases before we get it right, assuming we do. If AI is captive to the oligarchs or… Read more →
Original Concept Note (March 2026)
Institute for Planetary Intelligence Concept Note Incubated by Possible Planet / Center for Regenerative Community Solutions March 2026 Overview The Institute for Planetary Intelligence is proposed as a new initiative incubated under Possible Planet and the Center for Regenerative Community Solutions (CRCS), emerging directly from the intellectual, ethical, and practical work now underway through Possible Planet Lab. Possible Planet already… Read more →