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Etymologically Gaea
(or Gaia) is a compound word of two elements. "Ge" meaning Earth, a
pre-Greek substrate word and "Aia", a derivative of an Indo-European
stem meaning "Grandmother". Thus the full etymology of Gaea would
appear to be "Grandmother Earth". In Greek mythology, Gaea (Mother
Earth) was the oldest of the gods whensforth sprang the starry heavens,
the mountains, plains, seas and rivers that make up the Earth as we
know today.
The Gaea hypothesis is an ecological theory
that proposes that the living matter of planet Earth functions like a
single living organism. Accordingly, the Earth s not a living
organism which can live or die all at once, but rather
a kind of community of trust which can exist at many discrete levels of
integration.
We at Gaea Laboratories,
believe that all of the Earth's living matter, air, oceans and land
form an interconnected system that can be seen as a single
entity. By nurturing, protecting and respecting our planet, its
natural resources and its inhabitants, we enrich our own lives and
those of future generations.
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