Rainforest conservation in action with the World Land Trust, international wildlife conservation organisation World Land Trust

Biomimicry: looking to the natural world for answers - RN Future Tense - 2 June 2011 [Music - 'Peer Gynt Suite' - Morning] Antony Funnell: Ah, nature ... I try to avoid it wherever possible, but some people actually like it. It's inspired music, art and dance, so why shouldn't it provide the inspiration for future innovation? Tim McGee: With the right point of view, all of our design, all of our challenges that we have, from engineering cities to cleaning water, to optimising our organisations, our businesses, nature's actually solved those challenges in its own way. [Music] Antony Funnell: Edvard Grieg and Tim McGee, and we'll hear more from the latter, at least, a little later. Hello, Antony Funnell. Biomimicry - it's a new word for an ancient idea. Janine Benyus: The low estimate is that there are 30-million species on earth. Janine Benyus: You know, I think that's true. Antony Funnell: Janine Benyus, speaking from the wilds of Montana. Andrew Harris: Let me tell you about Dr Andrew Harris. Andrew Harris: It's called the Stenocara beetle. [Biomimicry video] Tim Finnigan.

Part of Nature cartoon by Stuart McMillen - Recombinant Records This cartoon is heavily influenced by the books Natural Capitalism - Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins (1999) and Mid-Course Correction - Ray Anderson (1998). It is also in the same vein as the flash animation "The Story of Stuff" by Annie Leonard, which I watched when I was about 90% of the way through the drawing process. Back to post / website. View/add comments for this article.Part of Nature by Stuart McMillen. September 2009. Biodiversity & Environmental Resource Data System of Belize (BERDS) Tree of Life Web Project Belize Zoo - The Belize Zoo WWF Belize Citrus Growers Association - Home