What does Gaia mean?
Gaia was the Greek goddess of the planet Earth, though the word was also used to refer simply to the Earth. Much later, during the first large environmental movements in the 1970’s, Gaia came to be the name for a hypothesis put forth that sought to explain some of the dramatic environmental changes being observed at the time. This ‘Gaia Hypothesis’ originally proposed that the planet Earth was a single living organism and would therefore take its own corrective measures-drastic if need be-to keep itself ‘healthy’. The hypothesis was discussed and debated much and remains still a hypothesis. To the company, Gaia simply refers to the fundamentality of power issues in the world today.
