Nature Heals All Wounds: Spirals, Seashells, and Molecular Architecture
In the burgeoning field of biomimicry,. bioneers are designing a technological civilization that harmonizes with nature's operating instructions. Inventor Jay Harman models the forms and dynamics of water with astounding results. Chemist Paul Anastas is re-inventing a "Green Chemistry" that transforms how we make things. Imitating nature is paying off for the economy, people and the planet.
Surviving Climate Change: Plants, People and Place
How secure are a far-flung global economy - and our food supply - in a time of climate change? Native American historian John Mohawk explores how civilizations have coped with previous Earth changes, or have collapsed. Seedsman and author Gary Paul Nabhan expresses the power of restoring reciprocal relationships with the foods we eat. Both present compelling perspectives for conserving our collective knowledge of our relationship to plants, and looking to the local.
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