Description: Commentary on the state of sustainability and public affairs from a whole systems and strategic sustainability perspective
As Stewart Brand said in the introduction to the Whole Earth Catalogs ,
" If we are going to act like gods, we might as well get good at it ."
And Biomimicry is one key, and in a sense, one of the legacy's of the Whole Earth movement. Like Buckminster Fuller's comprehensive antipatory design science , Biomimicry is (1) the exploration and understanding of nature, i.e., the environment, as the technology and economy of an exquisitely evolved and designed regenerative life support system (living machine) that has been tested and developed over 3.8 billion years of evolution (see-the time line of evolution ) and then (2) applying those battle-harden