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The Shark’s Paintbrush – Biomimicry and how nature is inspiring innovation, serial entrepreneur and inventor Jay Harman

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard discusses in his book, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman.

She suggests that global Greenspeak about biodiversity, ozone depletion, etc., has erased the local from environmental concerns by suggesting that the solution can only be global.

Pister collected all the Owens pupfish left at Fish Slough, with the intention of moving them to a nearby spring. They fit into two buckets. “I distinctly remember being scared to death,” he would later write. “I had walked perhaps fifty yards when I realized that I literally held within my hands the existence of an entire vertebrate species.”

he first figuratively and then literally set out to “play God,” initially by making the claim that humans had the power of gods and then during the past decade by creating an organization to save and restore endangered species with modern biotechnology.

Two prominent philosophers proved to be especially influential members. The first was Michael Sandel, a Harvard professor who is the contemporary successor to John Rawls in defining the concept of justice. At the time, he was writing an essay titled “The Case Against Perfection: What’s Wrong with Designer Children, Bionic Athletes, and Genetic