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6 LESSONS FROM NATURE PRINCIPALS. 1. SOLAR INCOME . Life cannot exist without solar income (light and energy). Plants feed on sun, animals feed on plants, homosapiens feed on plants and animals, (homosolaris feed on sun ) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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6 LESSONS FROM NATURE
PRINCIPALS
1. SOLAR INCOME
• Life cannot exist without solar income (light and energy).
• Plants feed on sun, animals feed on plants, homosapiens feed on plants and animals,
(homosolaris feed on sun) • Sun energy is also the creator of forms and
shapes (we will come back to this later on)!
SOLAR INCOME
Las Gaviotas – the Colombian mega project for the world
We can use this solar income to: • generate hot water for our houses;
• design water purification systems, large hospital water heating systems , semi-industrial solar
cookers and even sterilization equipment.
2. MULTIPLE BENEFITS
Healthy coral reefs provide:• Habitat - home to over 1 million diverse
aquatic species.• Income - billions of dollars and millions
of jobs around the world.• Food - for people living near coral reefs.
MULTIPLE BENEFITS
• Protection - a natural barrier protecting coastal cities, communities and beaches. • Medicine - treatments for many of the
world's illnesses and diseases. • We can use the functioning of this
network of species in the management of ecosystems.
3. DIVERSITY GIVES STRENGHT
• From holistic point of view the natural systems live in diversity.
• Diversity stabilizes an ecosystem and its processes (but does so at the cost of the individual species that live in these communities).
• More diverse plant communities have consistently higher productivity
DIVERSITY GIVES STRENGHT
We can use it for maintaining diversity: • in agriculture and ecosystems (forest
examples); • of people and skills in an organization; • of transportation types and routes; • of industries filling similar market niches.
4. WASTE=FOOD
• Where do we find waste in nature?• At an ecosystem level organisms can be seen
as metabolists constantly gathering and processing materials before releasing them back to the environment.
• What can we use the waste from coffee production for?
5. FEEDBACK SELF-REGULATION
• Feedbacks in nature• Positive / negative feedback • The nature’s way to communicate information• Elephants culling for or against? • We can use it … (turning of crops not
enough)?
6. OPTIMIZES WITHIN LIMITS
• All things in Nature were optimized during many years of evolution (structure and shape).
• Galileo - strength does not increase in proportion to size.
OPTIMIZES WITHIN LIMITS
• Beaks, oysters, sunflowers ...• We can use it to: –design HVAC systems for specific
situations/environments/climates; – in preventing buildup of calcium deposits; –build solar power stations …
How many of the principals do you find here?