“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“If we could learn to make things and do things the way nature does, we could achieve factor 10, factor 100, maybe even factor 1,000 savings in resource and energy use.”
— Michael Pawlyn
Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture
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“You could look at nature as being like a catalog of products, and all of those have benefited from a 3.8-billion-year research and development period.”
— Michael Pawlyn
Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture
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“Consider that we receive 10,000 times as much energy from the sun every year as we use in energy from all forms — 10,000 times. So our energy problems are not intractable. It’s a challenge to our ingenuity.”
— Michael Pawlyn
Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture
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