Transcript You can the powerpoint presentation we used from HERE.

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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 , semiindustrial 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
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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?