In my now decades-long exploration of what it means to be human, some things now seem quite clear to me, while others continue to puzzle me. Some of the things that are clear, though I once thought them preposterous:| how to save the world
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s book The Mushroom at the End of the World is subtitled “On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins”. She’s not talking about the future, when the industrial economy has completely collapsed. She’s talking about the present, in places where collapse is already well underway. The book describes how alternative economies — not the neat tidy ‘sharing’ economies we idealists like to write about, but the underground economies that emerge out of necessity,...| how to save the world
Janine, a biologist, author, and innovation consultant, popularized biomimicry in her 1997 book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. She introduced a discipline that mimics nature’s designs—like solar cells inspired by leaves—to create sustainable solutions. In 1998, she co-founded Biomimicry 3.8, the...| The Biomimicry Institute