Bio-Rules
What can we learn from the Earth’s 3.8 billion years of experimentation? Besides the great innovation work emerging from biomimicry, I like professor Gregory Unruh’s biosphere rules: 1) Use a parsimonious palette; in nature, less is more, where 99% of the weight of all living things are accounted for by just 6 elements. 2) Cycle up – virtuously; nature continuously creates new value from used materials. 3) Exploit the power of platforms; 30-100 million species all use the same basic DNA design. These and other sustainability principles (like the 4 system conditions of The Natural Step) are wonderful action guides.
— Wayne Visser
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