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Love Thy Nature
Narrated by Liam Neeson, Love Thy Nature is a cinematic immersion into the beauty and intimacy of our relationship with the natural world. With mesmerizing artistry and fascinating details, the film explores how nature nourishes us.
Neeson is the voice of Homo Sapiens – our collective humankind – who, in the past few thousand years, has come to believe that we are separate from nature. This mind-set has caused us to disrupt billions of years of evolution, causing a mass extinction of species and threatening the survival of the human race.
Love Thy Nature shows that a new era of connectedness with the natural world is key to ensuring our species’ future. This era might just be dawning: A new science called biomimicry taps into nature’s four billion years of R&D for some of the most brilliant cutting edge inventions, pointing to a new highly advanced technological age: The Biological Revolution.
In the medical field, doctors are unveiling new findings on the role of nature to sustain and heal the human body. And experts have discovered that just spending time in nature promotes healing, emotional stability, connectedness, and even neurological health in children.
Through Sapiens’ journey, the film reveals how a relationship with nature ignites a sense of meaning and wonder so profound that it touches us at the very core of what it means to be human. Traversing the globe, Love Thy Nature shares the dazzling spectacles of our planet while revealing how a deeper connection with nature transforms us as people and communities. And that transformation inspires us not only to restore our ecosystems, but also our human family, and ourselves.
Hecol 493 Design for Sustainability & Biomimicry
Hecol 493 Design for Sustainability & Biomimicry introduces a multidisciplinary approach to design and the role of design as an integrating field to approach sustainability. Increasing awareness of and providing extended information about sustainability and its close relation to design decisions is an important goal of this course. It provides a conceptual framework, modifying student’s mind-sets and allowing them to get a broader sense of responsible practice. Students taking DfS & Biomimicry will reach a new perspective on traditional design issues and on other fields rather than design.
The content of DfS & Biomimicry provides a better understanding of the complexity and interconnectivity that rule ecosystems and its relation to design limitations and constraints. The course stimulates critical thinking and It is oriented to students interested in a holistic understanding of the new paradigms and challenges of design fields, bringing retrospective and prospective analysis on core design issues as well…
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Restoration: Sustainability and Biomimicry
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Nature as a teacher
Master Naturalist Kira Hunt left the cold behind to spend a couple weeks studying biomimicry in Costa Rica. One of the perks to loving winter is truly appreciating a brief departure from the snow!
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Inspired by Nature event at Telus Spark
“…This month, we’re partnering with University of Calgary professor Marjan Eggermont, who blends biomimicry and engineering in her work and in the work her students undertake. Several groups of students will be bringing in their work on creating cement from CO2 and seawater, on how you are a special snowflake and on ways we can get more power from the wind…”
More info here: http://www.sparkscience.ca/events/adults-only-nights/inspired-by-nature/
Biomimicry Global Design Challenge 2015: Food
Biophilia, Biomimicry & Trends in University Curricula
Awesome project from Biomimicry Germany
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Biomimicry Alberta 