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Take the burgeoning field of biomimicry, for example. Biomimicry looks to nature for solutions to modern problems — after all, Mother Earth has had 3.8 billion years to work out all the design kinks. Biomimetics requires practitioners to be more than engineers, more than biologists, more than ecologists, more than designers, and more than... See more
Harvard Business Review • In Defense of Polymaths
Bioneers fosters a culture of solutions grounded in four billion years of evolutionary intelligence.
Melissa K. Nelson • Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future
The Biology Book: From the Origin of Life to Epigenetics, 250 Milestones in the History of Biology (Union Square & Co. Milestones)
amazon.com
The gurus for this kind of niche-shift will be people who have studied the places we want to go. Systems ecologists like Howard T. Odum have studied the food chains in a prairie or estuary or bottomland and then drawn diagrams of energy flows and fluxes.
Janine M. Benyus • Biomimicry
