“I don’t want to protect the environment; I want to create a world where the environment doesn’t need protecting. The Earth is not a platform for human life. It’s a living being. We’re not on it, but part of it. Its health is our health” Thomas Moore. In the Read more…
“If you want to understand any problem in [the world], you need to look at who profits from that problem, not at who suffers from that problem” Dr. Amos Wilson. A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation Read more…
One of the clichéd statements from modern environmentalists and spiritual gurus is that ‘we are all connected.’ But, ‘what if’ we all are? Most of our modern world is run on a scientific-materialistic paradigm (a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and Read more…
In two previous posts (Biomimicry 1 and 2 – Learning from Nature – BioEngineering a New World) I talked a little about Janine Benyus and her Biomimicry concepts. The key point I want to reiterate here is that the new wave of technology will by definition have to be focused Read more…
Nature has had a long time to get things right and as efficiently as possible. For instance, an intact grass prairie ecosystem has adapted to survive perfectly in any varying conditions where it exists. In this area of Colorado, the short grass prairie adapted to have 200 species of grasses Read more…
I have mentioned a few times in this Blog that we can learn a lot from nature. Think about it for a minute. The natural world has been adapting and modifying itself for over 3.8 billion years and is still doing so. That’s a lot of research and development time. Read more…