One thing I love about this is that he doesn't say we have give stuff but have more, do it better, and chaeper. Going green or your choice of word should not be about giving up things but getting newer better smarter things
Knowledge is power. We study so that we can make the world a better place. Once we transform it in a way that we're killing it, we gotta stop, look, think about it and study again for new solutions to new problems.
I have to say, this advertising they do at the end actually got me to listen to all of it. I just spent the entire time reading comments and talking to a friend about the video while this commercial was on.
one of the shortest presentation of ideas on TedTalks. I believe in nature as does he, as we all should. Reconnect and we shall live prosperously. Really inspiring!!! thumbs up
Fabulous! It's great to hear such positive language about environmental issues! Nature is so amazing. It's looks as if all those systems were designed that way.
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.
Now that's a TedTalk! I keep hearing great things about biomimickery. Humanity should gain lots of progress from this. To see the Sahara being reforested during my lifetime would blow me away. I'm confident humanity will make it through the next few decades, save for a cataclysmic event, like a meteorite (or WMD misuse). The amount of innovations and discoveries currently underway give me loads of optimism.
@volound I'm not sure how much I agree with behe's particular version of "Intelligent design," but I must admit, nature seems pretty darned intelligent!
Its all sounds great, but i would love to know how much energy it requires to produce ETFE... and if the waste produced when creating it is higher than that of glass. Because if its more than glass... then it defies the whole thesis and point of being sustainable.
@gaiagale I concur completely; after seeing Paul's speech at TED on Six Ways Fungi Can Save The World, I became an amateur mycologist almost overnight and have learned to take care of quite a few species now. It's a lot like gardening but with a lot more water and sterility, and the payoff are foods that taste like animals but have the health benefits we typically assume were plant-only. Shiitake and oyster mushrooms are fantastic cooked; haven't had the shaggy mane, but I think I will now ^.^
@lockcraw Indeed, and this is the type of specific proposal that should be looked at. Of course, I'm sure there are a myriad of problems, but its something worth fiddling with. I would much prefer to hear something down-to-earth like that than something that seems to suggest we could absorb even a 1/10th of a percent of the total solar energy that bathes our planet.
@PVanderston black both absorbs and radiates heat faster than any other colour. at night there is no sunlight to absorb, so the black just radiates heat away from itself very efficiently.
@Silverstarlightt Its not the big companies that would fight this its the curnt system. A closed loop's efficiency would let it under cut the curnt liner system. In some US cities the start of a closed loop system has begone. A closed loop works on both large and small sacle.
To naprawdę wspaniała architektura i co najważniejsze sprzyja rozpakowywaniu się naszej biologii, bo jest fraktalna.Możemy więc w pełni się rozwijać bo nasza naturalna energia nie jest w żaden sposób blokowana. No i możemy zauważyć, sposób w jaki wszystko ze sobą się wiąże, tworzenie pozytywnych pętli daje niesamowite możliwości. Takie technologie są nam bardzo, bardzo potrzebne, byśmy mogli wreszcie prawidłowo się rozwijać jako świadome społeczeństwo.
These are great ideas, but how do we make it happen? In an old TED speech given by Bjorn Lomborg, he spoke about how to prioritize our focuses in saving the world. He made so much sense, but once again it's not as easy as just talking about it. How can people contribute to such a cause? Where would they look?
@MatsMinds plastic can be made from various renewables as well. i don't think he said anywhere in the video that he's going to be dropped in the desert naked, and he needs to build all his own tools, harvest all of his energy (starting with nothing!) and then create these things from scratch. He didn't say that. We CAN use already existing tools to create these things to reach our goals. It will take energy to create. They won't break-even instantly, no investment does that.
@dootzky ditto. I am not proud of a gender, nationality, *race*, ethnicity, and so on. No-one ever did anything to earn those, they were just born into it. Its brilliant ideas like this that matter.
@dookiecheez you know where this project would take off? Dubai. It has the desert/beach landscape, the money, and the will power. Perfect place to start
@gaiagale Yup, I concur completely. That's one way in which our technology can account for; until we start building things on the microscopic scale, much of the rest of the technology we can squeeze from this method will have to wait. Fungi, for example: Paul Stamets is currently pushing for the use of mushrooms that eat "waste" (some microbes and fungi can even eat nuclear waste and nasty hydrocarbons); we don't have to re-engineer anything to make them work, we just put them on site.
@KemaTheAtheist I was just pointing out that just because we know of something in nature that's greater than our technology doesn't mean we can do anything about it. Just thought someone here should be pragmatic about this method of technology building... Speaking purely in terms of what they have found out how to do: fantastic! De-desertification, here we come! ^.^
I think this is just what we need. Unfortunately, technology costs money (to build, maintain, even repair) and most corporations and goverments (with their 4 year terms) don't think long term (10, 20, even 30 years) they want their buck now.
brb, gotta go jump in 35,800 feet into the ocean. But that's ok. I have my RolexDeepSea Special! Also, this restored alot interest in urban design/planning and architecture. "This is not just possible, it's CRITICAL!"
I was going to say that using carbon nanotubes, like the Japanese plan on doing with the pyramid(shimizu), but I think this is much more cost-efficient. Great work!
@UnconformistSheep they sound technologically simple. seawater evaporators, solar concentrators, greenhouses. They sound expensive because you can append GIANT to the front of all of them. GIANT solar concentrators, GIANT seawater evaporators. The scale he's inevitably talking about is epic. It would be best to start small somewhere as a seed project, then gradually expand only as you can.
@MatsMinds They could be made of Mylar. Much like the inflated plastic film roof of the biodome. also: concentrated-solar furnaces can melt glass to make mirrors.
The International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA) was founded by David and Renate Jakupca in 1987 to meet the needs of people for current information about global issues. The historic ARK in Berea, home of the sustainable global Environmental Arts Movement, helped inaugurate the green building trend that is now sweeping America. "THEORY of ICEALITY on ENVIRONMENTAL ARTS" is the cornerstone for sustainable activity that is now replicated by urban designers, architects, etc Worldwide.
You should adapt your energy development to your ground conditions. For an example, Japan being and island could use wave power, in deserts solar farms, in high mountains wind farms, its not waste, its adapting your territory. Yes, nuclear is more efficient, I´m nos arguing that, and yes, fuels should be ussed, but according to the six principles of sustainable developtment. The third states that fuels could be used to make a transition between fossil fuels and sustainble infraestructure.
@OldSchoolSkill I have to disagree (a bit); we've known fully well of a bunch of animals that are better than us at things, and it didn't speed up the process of our biological mimicry. For example, who hasn't heard dogs' noses are 1000s of times stronger than hours? And yet we still have to use the dog itself for such a powerful sense. Just because we know about it doesn't put us anywhere near capable of copying these processes to things outside of organisms.
A perfect example of the kind of lectures we need today.
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i think this video needs a lot more sharing and a lot more likes
+Abhishek Badani Agreed!
Abhishek Badani it has waaaay more likes.
this is incredible, what he's talking about is my dream
Architecture would be a whole new thing if every thought about it like he does!
I like how he's talking about being humble and obtaining wisdom from nature.
I like how he puts it "a challenge to our ingenuity". Great talk, thumbs up.
possibly my favorite TED talk of all time
this is exactly why I love and study biology , we can learn so much from nature
One thing I love about this is that he doesn't say we have give stuff but have more, do it better, and chaeper. Going green or your choice of word should not be about giving up things but getting newer better smarter things
it's a total shame that we as humans don't get along enough to make things like was just seen in the video more abundant. It's brilliant and needed.
Knowledge is power. We study so that we can make the world a better place. Once we transform it in a way that we're killing it, we gotta stop, look, think about it and study again for new solutions to new problems.
this kind of material kids need i schools
I have to say, this advertising they do at the end actually got me to listen to all of it. I just spent the entire time reading comments and talking to a friend about the video while this commercial was on.
one of the shortest presentation of ideas on TedTalks. I believe in nature as does he, as we all should. Reconnect and we shall live prosperously. Really inspiring!!! thumbs up
Fabulous! It's great to hear such positive language about environmental issues! Nature is so amazing. It's looks as if all those systems were designed that way.
this is what we soo much need in these times.
this was one of the best TED videos in a while... WOW
perfect.....absolutely perfect....
absolutely brilliant, we need more people working on things like these
that's why i subscribed to TED, thx for the video!!!
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.
WOW, I'm leaning to biomimicry for my barch thesis and this is a big motivation
Hope your thesis went well! I have mine this year.
Da vinci and Antoni Gaudi used nature and incorporated it into their architecture,inventions and art. We could learn so much from Nature... 1:00
i had to do this cuz of school
Now that's a TedTalk! I keep hearing great things about biomimickery. Humanity should gain lots of progress from this. To see the Sahara being reforested during my lifetime would blow me away.
I'm confident humanity will make it through the next few decades, save for a cataclysmic event, like a meteorite (or WMD misuse). The amount of innovations and discoveries currently underway give me loads of optimism.
@volound I'm not sure how much I agree with behe's particular version of "Intelligent design," but I must admit, nature seems pretty darned intelligent!
Its all sounds great, but i would love to know how much energy it requires to produce ETFE... and if the waste produced when creating it is higher than that of glass. Because if its more than glass... then it defies the whole thesis and point of being sustainable.
@gaiagale I concur completely; after seeing Paul's speech at TED on Six Ways Fungi Can Save The World, I became an amateur mycologist almost overnight and have learned to take care of quite a few species now. It's a lot like gardening but with a lot more water and sterility, and the payoff are foods that taste like animals but have the health benefits we typically assume were plant-only. Shiitake and oyster mushrooms are fantastic cooked; haven't had the shaggy mane, but I think I will now ^.^
!) Radical increases in resource efficiency.
2) Closed-loop system.
3) Solar economy.
Lets get to it!
Best talk in a while. Perhaps I see my own career
one of the best talks ever.
Brilliant! Iove these types of talks!
We need to put this effect into planning. Right now.
I'm trying to find a second like button because this is an amazing TED talk
A Good TED Talk after a loooong time..
Thanks Michael - awesome talk.
@lockcraw Indeed, and this is the type of specific proposal that should be looked at. Of course, I'm sure there are a myriad of problems, but its something worth fiddling with. I would much prefer to hear something down-to-earth like that than something that seems to suggest we could absorb even a 1/10th of a percent of the total solar energy that bathes our planet.
Finally - a TED video where I understood the time line of the Rolex Watch.
@PVanderston black both absorbs and radiates heat faster than any other colour.
at night there is no sunlight to absorb, so the black just radiates heat away from itself very efficiently.
@Silverstarlightt Its not the big companies that would fight this its the curnt system. A closed loop's efficiency would let it under cut the curnt liner system. In some US cities the start of a closed loop system has begone. A closed loop works on both large and small sacle.
Way to go, Lex Luthor! Nice video, inspiring and full of hope.
one of the best vids on youtube for sure.
Wow... this guy is genius. If only people didn't suck so much we could actually go ahead with this...
the best talk I have ever seen
What a fine talk.
To naprawdę wspaniała architektura i co najważniejsze sprzyja rozpakowywaniu się naszej biologii, bo jest fraktalna.Możemy więc w pełni się rozwijać bo nasza naturalna energia nie jest w żaden sposób blokowana. No i możemy zauważyć, sposób w jaki wszystko ze sobą się wiąże, tworzenie pozytywnych pętli daje niesamowite możliwości. Takie technologie są nam bardzo, bardzo potrzebne, byśmy mogli wreszcie prawidłowo się rozwijać jako świadome społeczeństwo.
I would ammend "solar" economy to renewable economy, there are many eco-friendly energy-gen technologies
These are great ideas, but how do we make it happen?
In an old TED speech given by Bjorn Lomborg, he spoke about how to prioritize our focuses in saving the world. He made so much sense, but once again it's not as easy as just talking about it. How can people contribute to such a cause? Where would they look?
@MatsMinds plastic can be made from various renewables as well.
i don't think he said anywhere in the video that he's going to be dropped in the desert naked, and he needs to build all his own tools, harvest all of his energy (starting with nothing!) and then create these things from scratch. He didn't say that. We CAN use already existing tools to create these things to reach our goals.
It will take energy to create. They won't break-even instantly, no investment does that.
respect!
Ill be working with Paul in July
@dootzky ditto. I am not proud of a gender, nationality, *race*, ethnicity, and so on. No-one ever did anything to earn those, they were just born into it. Its brilliant ideas like this that matter.
@dookiecheez you know where this project would take off? Dubai.
It has the desert/beach landscape, the money, and the will power.
Perfect place to start
we still are a part from nature,we just want to develop our own nature.
@gaiagale Yup, I concur completely. That's one way in which our technology can account for; until we start building things on the microscopic scale, much of the rest of the technology we can squeeze from this method will have to wait.
Fungi, for example: Paul Stamets is currently pushing for the use of mushrooms that eat "waste" (some microbes and fungi can even eat nuclear waste and nasty hydrocarbons); we don't have to re-engineer anything to make them work, we just put them on site.
Straight up, this was a great talk
In that case, why not do it in the Thar Desert in Rajasthan (India)? That area is very stable and tranquility.
@KemaTheAtheist I was just pointing out that just because we know of something in nature that's greater than our technology doesn't mean we can do anything about it. Just thought someone here should be pragmatic about this method of technology building...
Speaking purely in terms of what they have found out how to do: fantastic! De-desertification, here we come! ^.^
I think this is just what we need.
Unfortunately, technology costs money (to build, maintain, even repair) and most corporations and goverments (with their 4 year terms) don't think long term (10, 20, even 30 years) they want their buck now.
I just loved it! ❤️💐
Would be great to collaborat with more people!
Resource Based Economy, we need that, the rest will come.
brb, gotta go jump in 35,800 feet into the ocean. But that's ok. I have my RolexDeepSea Special!
Also, this restored alot interest in urban design/planning and architecture.
"This is not just possible, it's CRITICAL!"
my teacher is making me watch this.
I was going to say that using carbon nanotubes, like the Japanese plan on doing with the pyramid(shimizu), but I think this is much more cost-efficient. Great work!
Weird long Rolex ad at the end
The Fremen of Arakris would be so proud of this!
I cried halfway watching this
very interesting, more talks like that, TED
Great TED talk!
@RickeyRamone the beetle flies towards forrest fires, from upto 80kms away. I think fire is necessary for it to breed or something.
@UnconformistSheep they sound technologically simple. seawater evaporators, solar concentrators, greenhouses. They sound expensive because you can append GIANT to the front of all of them. GIANT solar concentrators, GIANT seawater evaporators. The scale he's inevitably talking about is epic.
It would be best to start small somewhere as a seed project, then gradually expand only as you can.
I'm studying chemistry and THIS is the reason why
🙏Thank you.
great talk
Neri Oxman and Michael Pawlyn should team up!
Truly inspired. Amazing.
If someone told me this guy is really Professor X, I would totally believe it !!
Very nice! Reminds me of Jacque Fresco's future city ideas in the Venus Project.
@MatsMinds They could be made of Mylar. Much like the inflated plastic film roof of the biodome.
also: concentrated-solar furnaces can melt glass to make mirrors.
Interesting examples
thank you; interesting and uplifting
this was a fantastic talk...just like watching young Jacque Fresco:) great ideas!
MINDBLOWING thank you!!!
brilliant and exciting ideas
The International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA) was founded by David and Renate Jakupca in 1987 to meet the needs of people for current information about global issues.
The historic ARK in Berea, home of the sustainable global Environmental Arts Movement, helped inaugurate the green building trend that is now sweeping America.
"THEORY of ICEALITY on ENVIRONMENTAL ARTS" is the cornerstone for sustainable activity that is now replicated by urban designers, architects, etc Worldwide.
@dootzky I think I've been watching some alternate universe version of TED where most talks are pretty interesting.
Fantastic!
Concerning the ad at the video's end: How many people wearing Rolex's take them swimming at 12 thousand feet below sea level?
You should adapt your energy development to your ground conditions. For an example, Japan being and island could use wave power, in deserts solar farms, in high mountains wind farms, its not waste, its adapting your territory. Yes, nuclear is more efficient, I´m nos arguing that, and yes, fuels should be ussed, but according to the six principles of sustainable developtment. The third states that fuels could be used to make a transition between fossil fuels and sustainble infraestructure.
4:44 But why the horse had to die?
Yep! Zeitgeist FTW :))
wow that was awesome... i need a watch..
lol
great talk!!!
brilliant! finally.
The Green Lex Luther!!
@dootzky richard dawkins was on TED talks xd...even dan dannett
AMAZING..
Brilliant
@OldSchoolSkill I have to disagree (a bit); we've known fully well of a bunch of animals that are better than us at things, and it didn't speed up the process of our biological mimicry. For example, who hasn't heard dogs' noses are 1000s of times stronger than hours? And yet we still have to use the dog itself for such a powerful sense. Just because we know about it doesn't put us anywhere near capable of copying these processes to things outside of organisms.
Efficiency is equivalant to profit.
Good job mate!