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Not all Technology is damaging to the environment.it is not inevitable. Technology can also learn from and celebrate nature, using man's brilliance, and bio-mimicry to achieve far more while aiming for zero carbon. An interesting video and a thought provoking series of lectures
I am referring to the third speaker in this video if you wish to fast forward.
Food production in the desert, produced in a closed loop system with zero emissions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7rmaEU5 ... ure=relmfu

Thanks for the link, Nature's Babe. I watched all three Schumacher lectures and it was good, brain-stirring stuff (much more enlightening than most links to news sites).

It was a pity John Elkington's 'Zeronauts' talk wasn't recorded - but the book of the same name looks good stuff. Although I've filtered out much of the Olympics, I was pleasantly surprised to hear about how they'd set the bar high on many aspects of sustainability, and surpassed quite a few.

Yes, Michael Pawlyn's talk was the jewel in this session, with many broader messages for gardeners everywhere, although of course earth-friendly organic gardeners are already working pretty closely with nature and learning from it all the time - and in some ways we're part way down the road of exploring the 'zero' targets he discusses, be it energy use or waste. It's great stuff.

And Jonathon Porritt is always worth listening to. He makes some very good points about the green movement's uneasiness with capitalism, highlighting that capitalism isn't 'the problem', but that "abuse of capital" is. More good stuff, and definitely a worthwhile hour's viewing.

Hi John, yes I thought it was a very well worthwhile viewing too, nature is quite amazing up close, and how well he was applying those principles in such an unhospitable environment, absolutely brilliant.