Venture capitalist and Bio-Logical Capital’s chairman of the board, Roland Van der Meer, talks about why he is passionate about Bio-Logical Capital’s business model–an economic model that will last for generations.
Ted Talk: Open Sourced Blueprints for Civilization
Marcin Jakubowski is an inventor and the founder of Open Source Ecology. He talks about achieving industrial productivity on small scale, and using open source technology to share these “Do It Yourself” designs. The result is a series of blueprints for highly efficient, low cost machines “made from local and recycled materials that would last a lifetime, not designed for obsolescence.”
Ted Talk: Balancing Energy
Gunter Pauli is an entrepreneur who is dedicated to design and implement a society and industries that respond to people’s needs using what is locally available. At TEDx Tokyo, Gunter speaks about the energy potential on the planet and how we can begin to think differently to find innovative and sustainable solutions. To Gunter, “Sustainability is the capacity to respond to the basic needs of all with what we have.” He encourages us to look at the world differently.
The Local Food Revolution
Investing in Forest Carbon: Lessons from the First 20 Years
As natural resources become more constrained, our economic system is rewarding investment in cleaner air, improved water quality, restored wetlands, and enhanced wildlife habitat. A combination of government regulation and private entrepreneurial spirit is leading to the creation of new markets that capitalize on and protect nature’s services.
Ted Talk: Using Nature’s Genius in Architecture
TED Talk: How I Fell in Love with a Fish
Dan Barber is a chef and a scholar – relentlessly pursuing the stories and reasons behind the foods we grow and eat. With impeccable research and deadpan humor, he chronicles his pursuit of a sustainable fish he could love, and the foodie’s honeymoon he’s enjoyed since discovering an outrageously delicious fish raised using a revolutionary farming method in Spain.
The Crisis in Global Land Use
Jonathan Foley is the director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of the Minnesota, where he also leads the institute’s Global Landscapes Initiative, which focuses on the nexus of global land use, agriculture and the environment. In his October 5, 2009 article on e360.yale.edu, he talks of the global land use crisis, on par with climate change, and presents some simple, yet profound, solutions to begin addressing this issue.
Reflections on Children’s Experience of Nature
Nature is important to children’s development in every major way—intellectually, emotionally, socially, spiritually, and physically. In his newest book, Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection (Island Press, 2005), Dr. Stephen R. Kellert of Yale University, and board member at Bio-Logical Capital, devotes a chapter to the subject of “Nature and Childhood Development.”