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Thursday, 18 June 2009
Which green thinkers do you rate?
For a wee side-project I'm doing, I'd be grateful for suggestions of your favourite breakthrough green thinkers - people who have really made a difference in the sustainability field like Rachel Carson (of Silent Spring fame) rather than communicators/campaigners like Al Gore and George Monbiot.For example, the people who I rate are Amory Lovins (RMI), McDonough & Braungart (MBDC), Jaime Lerner (Curitiba), Prof Tim Jackson (Surrey Uni), Janine 'Biomimicry' Benyus and Bob Frosch (ISIE). Other candidates could be Nicholas Stern, James Lovelock (gaia) and David Pearce (Blueprint for a Green Economy).
Thanks in anticipation of your wisdom!
Labels: amory lovins, gurus, janine benyus
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Friday, 14 September 2007
Biomimicry by Janine Benyus
Another TED video for a Friday (click here to watch).Janine Benyus gives a stirring overview of her work on Biomimicry - the art of nature-inspired technical solutions. Nature tends to work at ambient temperature, atmospheric pressure and without highly toxic materials, so there are some massive environmental gains to be made if we can copy natural processes.
In her excellent book, Biomimicry
, Benyus extends the natural metaphor to larger industrial systems which leads us to our old friend Industrial Symbiosis.Note: make sure you watch until the end as there is a false ending before she is given extra time to finish her talk.
Labels: biomimicry, industrial symbiosis, janine benyus
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A highly accessible, practical guide to those who want to introduce sustainability into their business or organization quickly and effectively.
