{"id":126,"date":"2009-08-29T19:48:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T18:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maurice.vanderfeesten.name\/blog\/?p=126"},"modified":"2009-08-29T19:48:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T18:48:49","slug":"innovation-by-watching-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maurice.vanderfeesten.name\/blog\/innovation-by-watching-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"innovation by watching evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nature has come-up with elegant solutions of today&#8217;s problems.<\/p>\n<p>Janine Benyus tells us about a research field that is called Biomimicry. In this field they look at strategies nature has come-up with to solve different problems, just by trail and error during the process of evolution. Let evolution work for us.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asknature.org\" target=\"_blank\"> www.asknature.org<\/a> is a website one can post different strategies that can be used by humans to solve problems of teoday in an elegant and natural way that keeps the planet eurth in its equilibrium.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"446\" height=\"326\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/embed\/JanineBenyus_2009G-embed_high.flv&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/JanineBenyus-2009G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=614\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Besides that one can innovate just by changing perspective. This talk is about the evolutionary perspective of grass.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"446\" height=\"326\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/embed\/MichaelPollan_2007-embed_high.flv&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/MichaelPollan-2007.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=214\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This talk is about the aquatic-ape. A different perspective on the evolution of the homo sapience.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"446\" height=\"326\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/embed\/ElaineMorgan_2009G-embed_high.flv&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/ElaineMorgan-2009G.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=607\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature has come-up with elegant solutions of today&#8217;s problems. 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