6 videos tagged eco-design
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Janine Benyus
What can industry learn from nature?
Janine Benyus talks about how mature ecosystems like rainforests have inspired a number of industrial eco-parks. These are co-locations of companies that distribute waste and raw…
Recorded: 16 October 2005
Janine Benyus
What can designers learn from biologists? (part 1)
Janine Benyus talks about her current efforts to bring more biologists to the design table. She believes there is a vast wealth of knowledge in fields such as biology, zoology and…
Recorded: 16 October 2005
Janine Benyus
what can designers learn from biologists? (part 2)
In this second part of a two-part series, Janine Benyus discusses the pressing need to educate engineers, designers and even biologists in the field of functional biology. Nature…
Recorded: 16 October 2005
Amory Lovins
What is ‘Natural Capitalism’?
Dr. Lovins talks about the reaction around the world to his seminal book ‘Natural Capitalism’, which he co-wrote with L. Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken. Since it was…
Recorded: 17 October 2004
Amory Lovins
How can we make cars more efficient?
Dr. Lovins first had the idea to make cars a great deal more efficient in 1991. Here he describes how his initial idea for the ‘Hypercar’ has developed. During the 1990s…
Recorded: 17 October 2004
Ernst von Weizsäcker
What does globalization mean?
Dr. von Weizsäcker describes how the globalized economy allows corporations to blackmail governments around the world. This, he explains, fuels short-term thinking at a time when…
Recorded: 1 September 2002
