Welcome To Jim's Page
updated January 23, 2007

A Short bio

Jim's channeled epigram about our times:
Dissimulato augeat dum se calumnietur.
"Let the hypocrisy increase to become a parody of itself."

 

Here's a brief tour of a few of my projects spanning a number of years.

I'm currently starting a new company, Biomass Energy & Carbon, Inc., a California corporation operating in Colorado with an experienced group of researchers to develop, license and commercialize a new kind of biomass gasification. A more comprehensive website will be up soon at: http://www.biomassenergycorp.com

 

 

 

BEC offers a revolutionary new sustainable energy technology that will allow us to
remove CO2 from the air by putting carbon into the topsoil where it is needed.

The process creates hydrogen rich bio-fuels and a restorative high-carbon
fertilizer from biomass, while removing net carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

This idea serves as the best possible example of my long-term thesis about our times:

 

Meta-Nature
 
  Inflection Point  
  Nature  


For the last seven years I have been focused on catalyzing a global network of people using digital technology to address global ecology, democracy and the other pressing systemic issues of our time.

Planetwork has produced a number of events, including three major conferences, an online journal and a series of monthly's, now in half a dozen cites around the country. The network has also been at the forefront of digital identity producing the ASN White Paper and more recently The 1Society Inititative , an effort to influence the deployment of digital identity to support the needs of civil society by creating a set of working tools based on the XDI/XRI protocol.

The May 2000 PLANETWORK Conference
Global Ecology and Information Technology
May 12-14, 2000 at the Presidio in San Francisco

 

 
   
Around the time of the first Planetwork conference in 2000 I was doing a lot of Tibetan Buddhist practice, and through a series of fortuitous events, his holiness the Dalai Lama came to stay at Solstice Grove, my community residence in Marin, for three days while giving teachings at Spirit Rock.
 

These three projects represent basic scientific visualization tools for physics, chemistry and anatomy.

 

Newtonian Physics Symbols

 
 
 

 

 

Spiral Periodic Table of the Elements

 
Each element is plotted on a radial representing the number of electrons, while the radius represents the number of protons, and the size of the sphere represents the effective atomic radius, thus various ionization states can also be included.

 

 

Pythagorean Vitruvian Man

 

G E O M A N

 

All three of these discoveries came during an especially intense period my senior year in college in the spring of 1983. It was in part the nature of these miraculous discoveries, as well as many other synchronicity experiences that led me into deeper existential questions about the nature of consciousness and time, eventually as a doctoral student in Philosophy and Religion at CIIS where I am still in the process of completing my dissertation on Meta-Nature.

 

 



GaiaMind

 

All images and text copyright © 2000-2007 James L. Fournier