Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
Janine BenyusThere are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.
Janine BenyusFor a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse, that everything we touch turns to soot. But neither perspective is healthy. We have to remember how it feels to have equal standing in the world, to be "between the mountain and the ant . . . part and parcel of creations," as the Iroquois traditionalist Oren Lyons says.
Janine BenyusThe answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.
Janine Benyus