JANINE BENYUS on Redesigning Society Based on Nature /71
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Life on Earth began some 3.8 billion years ago. Today we’ll discuss systems and structures that have withstood the test of time. This week’s podcast guest, Janine Benyus, is a pioneer in the school of thought known as Biomimicry. Biomimicry invites us to remember that the only way to survive is to learn from life. In this time, we are being asked to abandon the reductionist science and hyper-individualism that perpetuate the dominant cannibalistic systems of our societal workings. Janine invites us to explore nature’s genius systems for creating and proliferating life.
Janine Benyus
Nature as the engineer of life itself, has learned through deep time, how to create soil, clean air and water, cycle nutrients, remarkably continuing to create conditions which are conducive to producing more life. Biomimicry offers the perspective that nature can be our ideal model and our greatest mentor.
Janine Benyus is the Co-founder of Biomimicry Institute. She is a biologist, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Janine encourages us to live by the questions, “What would nature do here?” And, “What wouldn’t nature do here?” This week, listen as she expounds upon the power of Biomimicry as a profound force for regeneration.
♫ Featured music is "Conflated" by Vide Geiger and "Garden of Dreams" by Samuela
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