Spencer Beebe spoke at Long Now.
Biomimicry: We don't copy nature, we are nature.
Our economic system is a part of the ecological system.
Designing a system where our natural, everyday acts of work and life accumulate into a better world as a matter of course, not as a matter of conscious altruism. (Paul Hawken)
Design our economy to sustain and protect.
Headline example-- forestry management. Cut the way Nature does. Small-scale, don't take the best trees, leave the snags. In the end, you make more money, produce higher quality wood, more jobs, can have additional revenue via "tourism" or sports/recreation use of the land, and it lasts FOREVER.
Clearcutting gets you more immediate cash value, but kills all future value of the land.
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