Lessons from Nature is an educative program to allow students to rethink and redesign their future, to enhance world based on prosperity and harmony.

1. Image:
Rafael
Gershon
Glückstern
Lessons
from
Nature

6. Imagen:
John
Beales
Imagen:
NightThree

7. Image:
Javier
Hermoso
de
Mendoza

8. Natural
systems
Human
systems
Waste
=
Resources
Wastes
=
Toxics
Solar
energy,
local
resources
MulBfuncBonal
Fossil
fuels,
global
resources
MonofuncBonal
Diverse
Monospecific
OpBmize
Maximize

10. Bullet
train
Imagen:
Harry
Mitchell

11. King
fisher

12. Beat,
heat
and
treat:
wasBng
96%
of
the
energy

13. Which
chemical
elements
do
we
use?

14. How nature works?
water cycle
Oxygen cycle
Carbon cycle
Nitrogen cycle

15. Linear economy
(traditional)
Circular economy
Dispose
Take
Biological
nutrients
Technical
nutrients
Mixture of nutrients
Toxics
Make
living organisms
Source:
McDonough
&
Braungart
(2002)

17. Cardboard
to
caviar:
the
ABLE
project

18. Manure
Sludge
Restaurants
Willows
Heat
Fish
Farm
Organically
-­‐
Sturgeon
enriched
-­‐
Local
fish
water

19. Zero-­‐waste
urban
farming:
‘Biospheric
project’,
‘Polydome’
&
‘Bright
farms’

20. -­‐
Greenhouse
-­‐
Polyculture
-­‐
Supermarket
-­‐
Restaurant
-­‐
Renewable
engergies

21. Biospheric
project

23. Aquaponics

24. Nike
Considering
Ford
U
EcociBes
in
China
Puma
InCycle

25. Michael
Pawlyn
Janine
Benyus
Michael
Braungart
Gunter
Pauli
William
McDonough
Ellen
MacArthur

26. NATURE
to build and inspire a brighter
USING
INSIGHTS
FROM
future
Spanish Team:
Juan Diego López Giraldo
Enrique Fuster Espinosa
Cayetano Gutiérrez Pérez
Ángel Silvente Ortega
Cayetano Gutiérrez Cánovas
Participan:
www.lessonsfromnature.org/es

27. Nature
principles
solar
income,
local
resources
mulTple
benefits
waste=food
opTmize
adaptaTon
diversity
strengthen

28. LfN
methodology

29. Inspire
Challenge
and
engage
students
Cardboard
to
caviar
/
teams
in
nature
/
zero-­‐waste
economy?
Discover
Discover
nature
principles
-­‐
Why
does
nature
use
a
subset
of
chemical
elements?
-­‐
Why
ecosystems
mostly
rely
on
solar
energy
and
local
resources
-­‐
Why
don’t
exist
bins
in
nature?
Understand
Comparing
natural
and
human
systems
-­‐
How
we/nature
make
stuff
-­‐
How
we/nature
organize
tasks
Apply
-­‐
How
many
kilometers
take
your
food
to
reach
your
house?
What
happen
in
nature?
Applying
insights
from
nature
to
common
problems
-­‐
How
can
we
run
a
farm
without
oil
-­‐
Can
we
redesign
buildings
to
get
more
funcAons?
-­‐
Transport
without
fossil
fuels?
-­‐
How
can
we
produce
zero-­‐waste
clothing

30. Muchas
gracias
por
vuestra
atención
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