nature’s lessons on purpose-driven leadership and design: applying decades’ worth of pioneering...
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Janine BenyusBiomimicry@JanineBenyus
Natures Lessons on Purpose-driven Leadership and Design: Applying Decades Worth of Pioneering Biomimicry Research
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Biomimicry: Leadership and Purpose Inspired by Nature
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Biomimicry is the conscious emulationof 3.8 billion years of time-tested wisdom
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A sustainable world already exists
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Viewing and valuing nature in a whole new light
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Its valuing nature not for what we can extract, harvest, or domesticate, but for what we can learn
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How does nature create the color white without pigment, without chlorine?
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How does nature capture pollutants from a moving steam of fluid (air)?
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How does nature repel water, oil, stains without teflon?
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How does nature gather rainwater?
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How does nature turn waste into value?
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How does nature preserve?
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How does nature optimize flow?
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How does nature repel bacteria?
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How does nature manufacture ?
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But Koann asked me: What can nature teach us about leadership?
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The Nature of Leadership
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HUMAN DESIGN
CHALLENGEBIOLOGICAL MODELS
FUNCTION BRIDGE
DESIGN PRINCIPLES
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Ideally, what do we want leaders to DO?In what CONTEXT?
Guide collective action of a social grouptoward a worthy goal
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So, how do social groups of organisms guide collective action toward a worthy goal?
Is there always a leader?
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Eukaryotes:Allanimals,plants,fungi,amoeba,and.Humans
TheNewTreeofLifeUCBerkeley
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Self-organization
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make way for swarms
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Leadership in collective action and decision making is
distributed, shared, & purposeful
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What shall we do together?
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Purpose
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Whats worth doing?
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WHATS WORTH DOING?Reverse Climate Change
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Make products outof carbon pollution
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Coral-inspired building materialsmade from CO2 and seawater Blue Planet
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Plastics from CO2AirCarbonTM , Newlight Technologies
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Store carbon inrich living soils
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Ecosystem-inspired agriculture:accelerating carbon drawdown
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Designing for the microbiome: learning to help the helpers
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Eliminate our exhale of excess carbon
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Preventing food waste
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Making like a leafWater + sunlight => hydrogen + CO2 =>Fuel
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FLOWECalTech Biological Propulsion Laboratory
Image: Shutterstock.comImages: Shutterstock.com
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WHATS WORTH DOING?Gather dispersed materials
in your supply chain
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Life concentrates the miniscule:photons, metals, water from air
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WHATS WORTH DOING?Turn your supply chain into
a mutualistic network
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When you see this
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Heres whats below
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What if your supply network looked like this?
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WHATS WORTH DOING?Be Generous:
Produce ecosystem services
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Which one gives back?
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Ecosystems are generous
CARBON SEQUESTERS
POLLINATORS
DECOMPOSERS
FILTERS EROSION CONTROL
TEMPERATURE REGULATION
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NATURES ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
moderate weather extremes and their impacts purify the air and water
pollinate crops and natural vegetation generate and preserve soils and renew their fertility
cycle and move nutrients
detoxify and decompose wastes maintain biodiversity
attenuate drought and floods disperse seeds
protect stream and river channels and coastal shores from erosion
contribute to climate stability
regulate disease carrying organisms
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Challenge cities to meet or exceed the level of ecosystem services produced by the native ecosystem
Ecological Performance Standards
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water collection and storage# gallons/storm
solar gain and reflectance% albedo
carbon sequestration # tons/acre
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water filtration % pollutants captured
evapo-transpiration % rainfall returned
nitrogen and phosphorous cycling
# tons/acre
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biodiversity % diversity of native species
soil buildingmm of soil created
temperaturedegrees of cooling
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Current Performance
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
CarbonH20Stored
H20PurifiedAirPurified
CoolingSoil
ErosionBiodiversityPollination
Ecological Performance
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Lavasa, IndiaHOK and Biomimicry 3.8
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Nine meters of rain in three monthsMonths of drought
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The Moist Deciduous Forest, Western Ghats
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Mimicking the Monsoonal Engine
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A framework to design into
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What if all these buildings released 3x cleaner air?
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Infrastructure and Ecostructurecontribute services
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with multiple ecosystem services achieved by every design
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and a cumulative benefit over time.
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What if a factory could function like a forest?
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Carbon Footprint
Energy Use
GHG Emissions
Waste to Landfill
Water Intake
25%
39%
71%
94%
83%
(On average since 2008)
Biobased Materials oftotalrawmaterialsuse
Renewable Energy oftotalenergyuse35%
49%
Figures provided by Interface
EcoMetricsper unit of productionsince 1996
Recycled &
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Carbon Sequestered
Water Stored and Purified
Sediment Retained
Pollution Detoxified
Pollinators Supported
Biodiversity Enhanced
Soil Fertility Enhanced
Nutrients Cycled
ECOSYSTEM SERVICESproducedper factory
GoingPositive:
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Minto, Australia Interface Factory
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Real time eco-monitoring couldtrack ecosystem service production
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Reverse climate changeGather dispersed materials
Form mutualism supply networksBe generous: produce ecosystem services
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We are nature
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Life creates conditions conducive to lifeLead with purpose
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Invite a biologist to your design table
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What is driving businesses in your industry to implement more socially and environmentally responsible business practices? (%)
Cost Management
Client/Customer DemandBecause its the 'right thing to do'Public attitudes/building brandRecruitment/retention of staffTax relief
Government pressure
2008 2011 2014Grant Thorton, 2014
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ARE YOU GOING TO FOCUS ON WHAT YOU CAN GIVE?
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ARE YOU GOING TO FOCUS ON WHAT YOU CAN GET?
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To run a different kind of company, the kind of place wed want to work,that makes the kind of food wed like to eat, and that strives for a healthier, more sustainable world,the kind of world wed like to pass on to our children
Kit Crawford, Owner & Co-CVO
Clif Bar & Company
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of your waking hoursat work Mon Fri
75%
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Time to be Helpful & Generous Time to be Active & Healthy Time to Connect to Who & What They Love