Humans as Net-Contributors: Learning from Biomimicry and Living Principles with Dr Deborah Benham

My guest today is Dr Deborah Benham. In addition to her academic career as a biologist, Deborah is a biomimicry educator, a Gaia Education and Transition Towns trainer, and has huge experience in how we can draw on living systems to support solutions to societal challenges. 

I am very inspired to share this episode with you! We can actually be net-contributors as humans rather than always extracting and taking. It’s so easy to speak about all the problems and seemingly hard to find solutions to planetary and personal health, but today we get to glimpse into an emerging set of principles that just may be the foundation to how we run our systems and our lives in the future.

We dive into:

• What does it mean to be wild?
• You don’t need a wild place to be wild!
• What a deep nature connection practices facilitate a felt-sense of interconnection – a foundational experience leading to feeling connected to multiple relationships.
• How we can create positively to the health of the planet as net contributors.
• Biomimicry and Living Principles to help us do this!
• Learning to use templates that support living affirming products, processes and systems.
• Exploring how these frameworks guide us to be a good citizen that supports life to thrive.
• The imagination – creativity happens best within a set a parameters.
• What do we need to change? From the personal to the policy level.
• A deeper understanding that life creates the conditions for life to thrive, so we need to learn from the greatest teacher – the living wild biosphere!

Show Notes:

https://theoutdoorteacher.com/podcasts/episode-35-biomimicry-and-living-system-solutions/

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com

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