Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture






www.ted.com How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. At TEDSalon in London, Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing energy from the sun.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com Follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com Checkout our Facebook page for TED exclusives www.facebook.com

23 comments:

  1. I'm studying chemistry and THIS is the reason why

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  2. @Redneck1Grammar Nuclear is not part of a "closed loop" model because it's end product is radioactive waste which is extremely dangerous to the health of the species on this planet. - We need to stop thinking about money and taking shortcuts. Things need to be done properly and follow the laws of nature. - Excellent video.

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  3. Please dont only focus on solar power

    Nuclear is the way

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  4. i have so much respect to architects who work with nature. Green architecture for building sustainability...very informative video. thank you.

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  5. EndureFocusEngageDieJanuary 3, 2012 at 3:34 PM

    one of the best vids on youtube for sure.

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  6. really great and amazing..amazing ideas.. :D

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  7. Inspiring and worth watching for. Thanks for having this video clip posted.

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  8. Inspiring!

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  9. Does anyone know where that animation of earth's photosynthetic activity came from? Is it available somewhere?

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  10. Apparently 9 Luddites loathe Lex Luthor

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  11. Fascinating info here. Sad though that hundreds of thousands to millions of people watch the garbage that is on YouTube and so relatively few are seeing this. Share this with your peeps. Get the word out as far as you can.

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  12. PLEASE, you lost me with use of Arabian Gulf, I love you ideas, but why do you destroy the name Persian Gulf?

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  13. @thockoro hahaha, I actually searched for the video from youtube, so I could drop a comment about Lex Luthor here. :D

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  14. Architecture would be a whole new thing if every thought about it like he does!

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  15. @thockoro Professor X

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  17. Eloquent, direct to the point, simple yet fool of wisdom, the guy is spectacular and thanks so much for mentioning my Country Bolivia with such a great connotation, because is humiliating and unfair that my Country is referenced only as fine cocaine producer, my Country is a normal one.

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  18. If only our government had a closed loop model.

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  19. Excellent, best yet! Realize a reason this type of innovation is not explored is due to a global economic system based upon consumption driving profit margins. Corporate controlled government want to continue their hegemony via margin maximization and control over the economy and political control models are based upon tax revenues. If existing consumptive based models diminish due to innovative efficiency they would lose their hegemony. The failure to adopt is an economic command control issue.

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  20. loooooooovvve it

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  21. Truly brilliant. Would be good if people actually took such action...

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  22. Check out GENI. Global Energy Network Institute. Practical application of optimizing efficiency. Awesome lecture.

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  23. @NerdFangs You can find good starting info on wikipedia, along with videos on youtube

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