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Nurturing life by design through closed-loop thinking
From the course: Learning Design for Sustainability
Nurturing life by design through closed-loop thinking
- The Industrial Revolution was an amazing period of human creativity. The scale and raw power of the machines we made were truly awesome. In making a convincing argument for sustainable change, one common mistake sustainability advocates make is to bash the Industrial Revolution as blindly destructive. To focus solely on the negative impacts of the Industrial Revolution in terms of environmental destruction, pollution, and inhumane working conditions is to disregard a period of astonishing advancements in engineering and design. What we need instead is a deeper appreciation for the historical context of this brute force mentality. Janine Benyus, in her book Biomimicry, beautifully describes the similarities between ecological succession and humankind's ongoing maturation into a species that lives in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Ecological succession involves three different kinds of plant species, each with…
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