{"id":994,"date":"2011-06-06T17:27:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T21:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/?p=994"},"modified":"2011-06-06T17:27:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T21:27:35","slug":"janine-benyus-biomimicry-and-a-vision-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2011\/06\/janine-benyus-biomimicry-and-a-vision-for-the-future.html","title":{"rendered":"Janine Benyus, biomimicry, and a vision for the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The modern world\u2019s essentially autistic view of reality has suffered many assaults over the past 150 years.\u00a0 In particular Darwin, the paradoxes of quantum mechanics and the rise of ecology as a science and a societal crisis, among other issues, \u00a0all are suggesting that this approach to the world is self-defeating, scientifically mistaken, and immoral. The overall message is depressing. \u00a0Clearly a radical rethinking is needed.\u00a0 One of the most hopeful examples of this radical rethinking is Janine Benyus\u2019s talk at the TED conference \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n77BfxnVlyc&amp;NR=1\" target=\"_blank\">12 Sustainable Design Ideas from Nature<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You will feel more than a little hope when you\u2019ve finished watching her \u2013 especially if you do so all the way to the end.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The modern world\u2019s essentially autistic view of reality has suffered many assaults over the past 150 years.\u00a0 In particular Darwin, the paradoxes of quantum mechanics and the rise of ecology as a science and a societal crisis, among other issues, \u00a0all are suggesting that this approach to the world is self-defeating, scientifically mistaken, and immoral.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,112,12],"tags":[14,6,107],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-nature","category-science-and-technology","tag-environment","tag-nature","tag-science-and-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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