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Failed: 20 Years of Sustainable Development Effort
International Institute for Environment and Development
http://www.iied.org

Sustainable development is dead! Long live sustainable development!

A 20-year international effort to put the planet on a path to sustainable development has been woefully inadequate and will need a radical rethink if it is to achieve its aims, says a report published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).

The report was written by Steve Bass, a senior fellow at IIED and former chief environment advisor at the UK government’s Department for International Development. It is being released to mark the 20th anniversary of the influential …

Towards a Social and Ecological Revolution to Save the World
by Zeki Ergas, www.stwr.net
March 7, 2007

What we know with frightening certainty in this early spring of 2007 is that humanity and possibly the planet itself are in serious trouble. So much so in fact that a respected British scientist has not hesitated to predict that mankind had no more than a 50 per cent chance to make it to the 22nd century. That appears to be an excessively pessimistic prediction at this point in time but it did remind me of Albany’s prophecy in King Lear, Humanity must perforce prey …

Biomimicry has been a featured topic of discussion and the subject of presentations at a range of recent conferences including Industrial Ecology 2000, The Natural Step annual conference, Bioneers and EnvironDesign 5. This new methodology offers science, industry, municipalities, even individuals, a new way of accessing nature’s intelligence and principles of design.

Janine Benyus, author of the book “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, and presenter at the above-mentioned conferences, provided us with a description of biomimicry and its significance to the way it can shape the future.

Biomimicry (from bios, meaning ‘life,’ and mimesis, meaning ‘to imitate’) is a design principle that …