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Using Nature's Genius in Architecture by Michael Pawlyn
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How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. At TEDSalon in London, Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society: radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing energy from the sun. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at .

EarthSayer Michael Pawlyn
Date 11/7/2011 Format Interview
Length unknown Keywords SustainabilityMember of Special Collection Architecture and Green Building More Details
Profitability of Green Business by Ray Anderson
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We speak with America's Greenest former CEO, Ray Anderson, to learn that an environmentally-friendly company is not a broke company.

(www.watchmojo.com)

EarthSayer Ray Anderson
Date 6/21/2010 Format Interview
Length 3:58 Keywords SustainabilityMember of Special Collection Ray Anderson More Details
Climate Change: Risk and Opportunity by Dan Atkins Part 2 of 3
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Part 2 of 2

In a crisis, inefficient businesses are first to go and references General Motors.  Innovation is around all the processses in a business. Toyota is used as an example with its relentless pursuit of excellence and innovation as its brand positioning with consistancy in message.  

Dan Atkins is the co-founder and Director of Business Shaper and has extensive international and domestic experience with corporate and government sectors in Asia, Europe and Australia.

Adelaide, South Australia. 29 April 2009

EarthSayer Dan Atkins
Date 4/29/2009 Format Speech
Length 9:00 Keywords SustainabilityMember of Special Collection Climate Change More Details
Biomimicry at the nano level by Dr. Low Hong Yee
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TEDxSingaporeWomen Published on Mar 18, 2013

NanoImprint technology and its importance to producing structures and textrues that are found in nature and can be applied to uses such as achieving color without relying on chemical dyes.

One of three winners in the 2010 L'oreal for Women in Science Fellowship, Dr. Low Hong Yee has an aspiration to advance her research work into industrialization, and is currently leading an Industrial Consortium on Nanoimprint Technology.

EarthSayer Dr. Low Hong Yee
Date unknown Format Speech
Length unknown Keywords SustainabilityMember of Special Collection Innovation and Sustainability More Details
Elemental (trailer)
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The film follows Rajendra Singh, an Indian government official gone rogue, on a 40-day pilgrimage down India’s once pristine Ganges river. Across the globe in northern Canada, Eriel Deranger mounts her own “David and Goliath” struggle against the world’s largest industrial development, the Tar Sands, an oil deposit larger than the state of Florida. And in Australia, inventor and entrepreneur Jay Harman searches for investors willing to risk millions on his conviction that nature’s own systems hold the key to our world’s ecological problems

EarthSayers Deranger Eriel; Jay Harman; Rajendra Singh
Date unknown Format Trailer
Length unknown Keywords SustainabilityMember of Special Collection 1 Water More Details
Designing for Nature by Lehna Malmkvist
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We need to move from one-way systems to ones that create cycles - recycling as it is practiced in our natural systems. Canadian Lehna Malmkvist reviews some projects to demonstrate what she is talking about and what has been learned. This is her speech at TEDXBerlin in March of 2012.

EarthSayer Lehna Malmkvist
Date unknown Format Speech
Length unknown Keywords SustainabilityMember of Special Collection Architecture and Green Building More Details
Sustainability and Getting Better Answers by George Crombie
Static PreviewGeorge Crombie is President of the American Public Works Association (APWA) and senior faculty member for public works administration in the MPA program at Norwich University in Vermont. In this interview he discusses the importance of looking to nature (biomimicry), multi-disciplined approach to problem solving, applying the principles of culture, recognizing the importance of  leadership with vision and integrity, and always acting on behalf of the common good.

Mr. Crombie was interviewed by Ruth Ann Barrett of EarthSayers.tv in Portland, Oregon on July 28th, 2011 at the APWA Sustainability in Public Works Conference.
EarthSayer George Crombie
Date unknown Format Interview
Length unknown Keywords Sustainability More Details
Sustainability and The Turning Point
Joanna Macy stresses that the Earth itself can teach us how to live within the limits of earth and do no harm. Visit the Joanna Macy Website.
EarthSayer Joanna Macy
Date unknown Format Interview
Length unknown Keywords Sustainability More Details
Looking to Nature: Biomimicry and Design
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Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Here she reveals dozens of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular results. August 06, 2009http://www.ted.com

What is Biomimicry?

EarthSayer Janine Benyrus
Date unknown Format Lectures
Length unknown Keywords SustainabilityMember of Special Collection Innovation and Sustainability More Details
 

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