Janine Benyus: 12 sustainable design ideas from nature

I like the idea of biomimicry and it's intention to reduce or even eliminate our dependence on our present technology, the only thing that cause the problem is when it comes to production, It is nice if producing this technology without creating any problem which is the main issue we are facing in our present day industry. The industry that is the main culprit of this environmental mess.
And are we ready for the changes? and who will decide? it's not the consumer but the manufacturing sector.

BeachofDreams I think you are missing the underlying significance.
You recoil at "talk of deferring to nature"

Bud, you are a product of that nature!
Our healthy society & economy depends upon that healthy, generous, benign nature ~ Biosphere

You sound like youre still caught up in the
WE ARE THE CENTER OF CREATION faith-based fantasy.
(nothing but toil, trouble and doom in that direction)

Time for another Copernican revolution. ;-)

does anyone know where I can find the tapescript for this video?

tks

Also, Benyus seems to forget that while current life forms are the latest products of evolution (or "R&D"), these products are very likely to go extinct sometime in the future (whether humans interfere or not). Their design is all well and good as long as it presents an advantage in its own ecological circumstances and context. Successes have been made through biomimicry, no doubt, but I really wish it wouldn't be dressed in all the talk about deferring to nature as a whole.

The main criticism I have about biomimicry is that you can, at any point, call any design biomimetic. Aeroplanes are thus examples, according to the method, of biomimicry because they fly and do what birds do.

Moreover, you can't always take a solution found in one ecological context - say, giant lilypad structures - and apply it to something in a different context - floating cities, for instance.

And not only is there a problem of context but of scale. See the Biosphere 2 expm't.

This woman is a yank spoon. great content though

Great ideas here. I also strongly agree with Boolze

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I love it, we make our own Eden. I really hope this wakes people up to the solutions in front of us.

Namaste to you all!

Brilliant Lecture. It is about time we start focusing on being in harmony with nature instead of trying to conquer it. Wow, this video was very inspiring.