Welcome To Jim's Page
updated March 16, 2009

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 running Biochar Engineering Corporation, a young company designing, developing and deploying biochar production technology in Colorado. http://www.biocharengineering.com

 

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

The process creates a restorative high-carbon fertilizer from biomass,
while removing net carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

 

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


 

Meta-Nature
 
  Inflection Point  
  Nature  

Here's a recently published article in Reality Sandwich summarizing the idea of the Shift Scenario.

 

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

Planetwork has produced a number of events, including three major conferences, an online journal and a series of monthly networking events, in half a dozen cites around the country. The network has been at the forefront of online social networking and digital identity, producing the ASN White Paper as part of an effort to influence the deployment of digital identity to support the needs of civil society by creating a set of open social networking protocols.

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 engaged in 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.
 

 

The three following 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 (not) completing my dissertation on Meta-Nature.

 

 



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