I’m a big fan of biomimicry, and of Janine Benyus who coined the term. In a recent interview with TreeHugger, she explained it in this way:
Well, it’s really looking to nature for advice. It’s learning from, not just about the natural world. It’s literally when you have a design problem saying OK, what in the natural world has already solved what I’m trying to solve?
Now her focus is on product rather than on process – whereas I am interested instead in the biomimicry of process.
What would nature do, rather than what has nature done.
What can we learn from nature about how we need to work together to meet the coming changes?
John Michael Greer had an interesting post speaking to just this recently titled Dissensus and Organic Process where he writes “If you knew that a million refugees from climate change will be coming through your town, your plans would be very different from the ones you would make if you knew that your town would be far from the migration routes. Since these things can’t be known in advance, though, whatever consensus you reach has a very real chance of being exactly the wrong choice. This is where dissensus comes to the rescue. In a situation of uncertainty, encouraging people to pursue different and even opposed options increases the likelihood that somebody will happen on the right answer…. Evolution is dissensus in action, the outward pressure of genetic diversification running up against the limits of environment and, now and then, pushing through to some new adaptation: the wings of bats, the opposable thumbs of primates, the cultural evolution of human beings. As we enter a future of new limits and unpredictable opportunities, this is arguably the kind of organic process we need most. “
We need to be encouraging and supporting a continuous innovation civilization, framed within an understanding of the disruptive catastrophic realities that we face .
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Sounds a bit like Buckminster Fuller's solution. Set aside a certain amount of the GDP to pay people to just think and create. I think people are probably our greatest untapped resource. By and far they're far too busy on the mundane- how many geniuses are in a dormant state, slogging it out on a survival level attempting to fend off life-threatening poverty, and associated survival level needs like food, water, and basic health.
this is exactly what yoga and meditation are about, aligning mind with nature .. so that there is spontaneous “mimicry” (very weak word for the actuality)
this is exactly what yoga and meditation are about, aligning mind with nature .. so that there is spontaneous “mimicry” (very weak word for the actuality)
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