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has shared wised words of wisdom and logic. IUNC has found that the red list contains 7,500 conservatives who are holding on to the last of what is left of the old paradigm. There are clouds of worry on peoples' faces as they come to terms to the destructive forces that have worked to vanish over 90% of species on earth. They recognize that the economic quake that has soon to hit will be the largest in human history, with smaller quakes already proven to reek havoc on societies and the human web.
What they have forgotten to look at is the inherent wisdom of Nature's power and experience. Rather than fighting against Nature, we must look to become Nature's apprentice. Her pupil, student, and child.
We must return to the source of creation and stop fighting against it. Surrender is on its way, with resistance close behind her.
The failed paradigm of the old design is catching up to the modern world.
The failed paradigm of the old design is should not be cast aside as a failure, rejected from consideration and acknowledgment. No the unraveling paradigm of the past is merely a showing of our young, often times proud and stubborn, species. We fumble and forget how much is put into the system. How much work is needed to create the structures and plans for the future.
Did you know, cement makes up six to eight percent of the world's CO2 emissions? That is a large contribution if you think about it.
The total contribution of aircraft emissions to total anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions was considered to be about 2 percent in 1990 (IPCC, 1990).
The point is, ground asphalt and buildings made of cement are a significant contributor to green house gases and rising CO2 levels. The point is, the architectural designs of the past, especially through mainstream construction have greatly been poor and incomplete. If people were wise they would realize how designing using principles and patterns in nature, is the smarter and more effective way of constructing reality.
Benyus offered an extensive list of examples in how learning the patterns and designs created by nature can have a leading influence in the designs and scientific efficiencies in the future. She says, the beauty of the scientific path is that we have found the knowledge in the study. This knowledge, or wisdom, tends to reduce friction. This wisdom lets things flow. What some wise people call, the state of harmony. Benyus inspires by reminding us, there is still abundance left and the wisdom of the Earth is waiting for us to re-enter the conversation.
The dialogue is beginning.
- Break down
- Chemically break down
- Catalyze chemical reactions (6)
- Cleave halogens from organic compounds (0)
- Cleave heavy metals from organic compounds (2)
- Enzymes detoxify mercury compounds: bacteria
- Mining metals: marine bacteria
- Other inorganic compounds (4)
- Other organic compounds (30)
- Polymers (4)
- Physically break down
- Chemically break down
- Get, store, or distribute resources
- Capture, absorb, or filter
- Distribute
- Expel
- Store
- Maintain community
- Cooperate and compete
- Coordinate
- Provide ecosystem services
- Maintain physical integrity
- Manage structural forces
- Prevent structural failure
- Protect from abiotic factors
- Protect from biotic factors
- Regulate physiological processes
- Make
- Chemically assemble
- Generate/convert energy
- Physically assemble
- Reproduce
- Modify
- Adapt/optimize
- Modify chemical/electrical state
- Modify physical state
- Move or stay put
- Attach
- Permanently (49)
- Temporarily (68)
- Sticky proteins serve as glue: blue mussel
- Adhering to multiple substrates: blackberry
- Sticky proteins serve as glue: mammals
- Eggs glued to leaves: coddling moth
- Capillary action aids adhesion: European blowfly
- Hooked beak snags flowers: flowerpiercer
- Pollen fastens to a bee's head: orchids
- Feather parts reattach: birds
- Sucker-mouths help tadpoles stick: torrent-stream frog
- Suckers allow fine attachment: octopus
- White blood cells adhere closely: mammals
- White blood cells roll and stick: mammals
- Threads adhere underwater: sea cucumber
- Foot adaptations climb rough and smooth surfaces: insects
- Adhesion occurs in varying conditions: keyhole limpet
- Special tongue captures soft prey: long-beaked echidna
- Spinal column has strength and flexibility: armored shrew
- Proboscis forms a flexible, sealed cylinder: butterfly
- Poisonous tooth shoots into prey: cone snail
- Suction used to attach to prey: lamprey
- Hooks attach in water currents: caddisfly
- Claws hold on at high current velocities: riffle beetle
- Hooks aid underwater attachment: blackfly
- Sticky berries adhere: Australian mistletoe
- Feet adhere temporarily: aphids
- Eggs adhere in and out of water: midwife toad
- Tentacles adhere underwater: octopus
- Mucus takes on adhesive qualities: dusky arion slug
- Feet stay put: perching birds
- Running up and down trees: treecreepers
- Mouthparts manipulate food: insects
- Beak holds fish: puffin
- Employing frictional devices: tenebrionid beetles
- Footpads stick to vertical surfaces: great green bushcricket
- Resisting shearing forces: limpets
- Setae enhance temporary adhesion: leaf beetles
- Disklike structures adhere to smooth surfaces: Spix's disk-winged bat
- Modified leaves assist climb: passion flower
- Tendrils stick to various surfaces: Virginia creeper
- Running on waxy leaves: Arboreal ants
- Tube feet attach in marine environment: echinoderms
- Leaves modified for climbing: glory lilies
- Stem used for climbing: honeysuckle
- Stem sends out climbing gear: cheese plant
- Feet grip waxy leaves: leaf beetle
- Wings work in unison: insects
- Design features aid efficient attachment: lice
- Sucker-like structure used to attach: remora
- Low-energy perching: mousebird
- Orchids capture pollen: bucket orchids
- Feet maintain traction: mountain goat
- Seeds are dispersed long distances: South African grapple plant
- Sticky proteins serve as glue: green mussel
- Feet prevent slipping: insects
- Foot adhesion prevents capture: palm leaf beetle
- Receptors adhere selectively: microbes
- Glue fibers form underwater: caddisfly
- Pads attach to smooth surfaces: Madagascar sucker-footed bat
- Organs serve multiple adhesive functions: camel spider
- Tyrisonase enzymes aid crosslinking: organisms
- Secretions gain adhesive/cohesive qualities: marine invertebrates
- Larvae adhere temporarily underwater: barnacles
- Hooks adhere to wooly coats: burdock
- Toe pads adhere and clean themselves: White's tree frog
- Silk threads adhere underwater: marine amphipod
- Flagella facilitate swimming and attaching: Giardia
- Secretion attaches eggs: saturniid gum moth
- Caterpillars roll leaves: Striglina scitaria
- Prehensile tail holds tight: seahorse
- Move
- In gases (43)
- In/on liquids (65)
- In/on solids (60)
- Attach
- Process information
- Compute
- Encode/decode
- Learn
- Navigate
- Process signals
- Send signals
- Sense signals/environmental cues