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Read these short blog posts to explore the Conventional and Natural Paradigms, and what it might mean to you to Re-Align with Nature.
Why is it that so many of us are working so hard to address the multiple environmental and humanitarian crises we’re facing, yet we’re not making the headway needed?
I believe that to make real change, we — individually and collectively — need to see and understand the world, how it works, and our role in it, very differently. We need to recognize and let go of what I’m calling the Conventional Paradigm, and shift to living from our Natural Paradigm. Although I may be using new framing or terms, I am certainly not alone in this thinking. “A sustainable economy won’t mean much if we are still driven by a desire for unceasing consumption and mired in unhappiness and alienation.” ~ Navi Radjou “Nothing about the inherent nature of business dictates that irreversible environmental damage, poor labor standards and conformity in leadership are prerequisites to profit. Successful stewardship of our businesses can exist alongside responsible stewardship of our communities and planet. Future generations are counting on it.” ~ The B Team “If you want to “save the world”, you must first “find” your own consciousness, otherwise everything you do, regardless of good intentions, will be unconscious, will reflect and reinforce the unconsciousness of the world. It is the consciousness of the world that you are trying to save.” ~ Eckhart Tolle “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi So we need to shift our paradigm so that we, collectively, can begin to undo the damage that we’re doing. But we also need to shift our paradigm so that each of us, individually, can live in a way that is more inspired, more creative, more wise, and in alignment with our own values, everyday — even at work. If you’re curious how this might work, I invite you to download the [free] Tiny Transformation Workbook which will give you tiny peeks into the “Conventional Paradigm” and the “Natural Paradigm”, and then a tiny experience of intentionally living from your Natural Paradigm.
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Many of us have had the experience of telling someone about a disappointment and they responded, somewhat cynically, with, “Welcome to the real world.” Or perhaps you told someone about an idea or a project you’re really excited about and they responded with, “That will never work in the real world.” In these situations, people referring to the “real world” are expressing what we’ll call the Conventional Paradigm.
A paradigm is a worldview — what you believe to be true about the world, how it works, and your role in it. The Conventional Paradigm is the dominant cultural worldview of the western developed world, dominated by capitalism and colonialism, patriarchy and supremacy. It can be characterized by six interrelated mutually reinforcing beliefs: scarcity, individualism, competition, greed, resistance, and fear. The Conventional Paradigm is full of win-lose propositions. You win through control, intimidation, secrecy, power plays, manipulation, exploitation — and by causing other people and the planet to lose. We tend to experience and express the Conventional Paradigm when we’re engaged with the “real world.” We experience and express this paradigm when we’re stressing about work, obsessing about something on social media, resisting someone else’s ideas before understanding them, or buying yet another thing we don’t need. Those of us working to forward environmental or social sustainability consider ourselves to be values-based; however, our decisions and behaviors are often driven by the current dominant cultural paradigm, even though it does not reflect our personal values. Living with the belief that you have to align yourself with the “real world” to succeed — or even survive — can lead to endless blaming and complaining, cynicism, paranoia, polarization, and shame. When we operate from this paradigm we are not our true, authentic, best selves — and we cause harm to ourselves, others, and the Earth in the process. We are not able to reflect our personal values or Nature’s Paradigm. How and when do you experience and express the Conventional Paradigm? When this happens, how does it make you feel, think, and behave? Is this who and how you want to be in the world? If you’d like to explore this further, I invite you to download the [free] Tiny Transformation Workbook which will give you tiny peeks into the “Conventional Paradigm” and the “Natural Paradigm”, and then a tiny experience of intentionally living from your Natural Paradigm. You might also be interested in the book Re-Aligning with Nature, Ecological Thinking for Radical Innovation. According to the Biomimicry Institute, biomimicry is a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies found in nature to solve human design challenges—and find hope. When done properly, you can use biomimicry to come up with radically innovative and sustainable solutions to virtually any problem or design challenge you can think of. In addition, practicing biomimicry can be wildly creative, inspiring, and hopeful.
Biomimicry is grounded in science, provides an effective sustainable design methodology, and allows practitioners to co-create designs that are in alignment with Nature and their own values. So what’s wrong with Biomimicry? If it is so wonderful why is it so rarely practiced and even more rarely implemented? The answer is that nothing is wrong with Biomimicry! What’s wrong is that it does not reflect and reinforce our dominant cultural paradigm. It doesn’t fit in the “real world”. What is the current dominant cultural paradigm? First, it is important to understand that a paradigm is a worldview — it is what you understand to be true about the world, how it works, and your role in it. Our current dominant cultural paradigm — what I call the Conventional Paradigm — is reflected in corporate capitalism, colonialism, and supremacy. It is characterized by six interrelated elements: scarcity, individuality, competition, greed, resistance, and fear. The Conventional Paradigm sets man above Nature, some men above other men, and most men above most women. Nature has a very different paradigm, a very different view of the world, how it works, and our role in it. Nature’s Paradigm is based on abundance, systems, synergies, trust, resilience, and curiosity. If you’ve ever been in a biomimicry workshop where magic seemed to happen, what you were experiencing, for that moment, wasn’t magic, it was the Natural Paradigm — your Natural Paradigm. When you operate from your Natural Paradigm, you not only see the bigger picture, you feel part of it. You are able to engage in emergent thinking, co-creativity, and authentic listening. Have you been wildly inspired by biomimicry, but can’t figure out how to apply it in your work or in your life? Perhaps it’s because you’ve tried to apply it within the constructs of the Conventional Paradigm. If this resonates with you, I invite you to download the [free] Tiny Transformation Workbook which will give you tiny peeks into the Conventional Paradigm and the Natural Paradigm, and then a tiny experience of intentionally living from your Natural Paradigm. A paradigm is a worldview, what you believe to be true about the world, the way it works, and your role in it. The curious thing about a paradigm is that we’re often unaware that we have one, or how we might articulate it if we did.
Our current dominant cultural paradigm — what I’m calling the Conventional Paradigm — is reflected in corporate capitalism, colonialism, and white supremacy. This worldview is based on a belief in and valuing scarcity, individuality, competition, greed, resistance, and fear. This paradigm is what drives our behaviors and decisions when we engage with the “real world”. It is the paradigm that allows us to more or less ignore the rampant exploitation of peoples and places all over the world that make our lifestyles possible, because we understand profit and growth to be imperatives. Most of us subscribe to this paradigm when we’re engaging with the world as professionals and as consumers. We may blame and complain, and even feel shame, but we adhere to its assumptions and rules. What else are you going to do? What else is there? That’s the bottom line, right? But there is something else. There is an alternative worldview. That’s the paradigm that exists in Nature, what I’m calling Nature’s Paradigm. Nature’s Paradigm, which emerged over billions of years of evolution, is based on a belief in and valuing abundance, systems, synergies, trust, resilience, and curiosity. This is how life on Earth managed to diversify and spread from simple microorganisms in the sea to the millions of different species of organisms that now live across all continents and oceans. It wasn’t easy. There have been far more evolutionary failures than successes, so what has emerged not only follows Life’s Principles and Nature’s Unifying Patterns, but also Nature’s Paradigm. If humans want to survive on this Earth, then we have to re-learn how to follow not only Nature’s principles and patterns, but also Nature’s Paradigm. The wonderful thing is that we already know how. Since humans are biological beings, Nature’s paradigm is our natural paradigm. It is our worldview when we are not engaged as professionals or consumers, when we are being our authentic selves. The other wonderful thing is that living — and working and consuming — from our Natural Paradigm will allow us, individually and collectively, to create the kind of world we’d all love to live in. If this resonates with you, I invite you to download the [free] Tiny Transformation Workbook which will give you tiny peeks into the “Conventional Paradigm” and the “Natural Paradigm”, and then a tiny experience of intentionally living from your Natural Paradigm. Hi friends, colleagues, and like-minded souls!
I haven't posted anything in some time because I’ve been working on a new venture that I’d like to share with you. I’m calling the new venture Wild Hazel [wildhazel.net]. The flagship program is called Re-Aligning with Nature, Tapping into the Power of Your Natural Paradigm. It’s a sort of biomimicry for the soul. As you know, our current cultural, societal, and economic paradigms are human constructs that are self-serving, self-reinforcing, and damaging to people and the planet. They do not reflect, support, or reinforce basic human values or nature’s principles. I believe that we need as many of us as possible to recognize how we’re subscribing to this damaging “Conventional Paradigm” and that there's an alternative — the “Natural Paradigm.” The Natural Paradigm reflects Nature’s understanding of the world, how it works, and our role in it. It’s reflected in Life’s Principles, Nature’s Unifying Patterns, and Native American philosophy. Because you and I are biological beings, Nature’s Paradigm is our natural paradigm. It is what you believe to be true about the world, how it works, and your role in it when you are your true, authentic self — when you are your best self. You are operating from your Natural Paradigm when you’re enjoying a stunning sunset, engrossed in a creative project, playing with your kids, or helping a friend. It is my belief that the only way for us to address the personal, environmental, and social challenges that we have created for ourselves is to begin living from our Natural Paradigm. This will give us new clarity about the world, the way it really works, and our appropriate role in it. It will also, beautifully, empower us to tap into the individual and collective inspiration, creativity, and wisdom that already exists within ourselves as natural living beings. If this resonates with you, I invite you to download the [free] Tiny Transformation Workbook which will give you tiny peeks into the “Conventional Paradigm” and the “Natural Paradigm”, and then a tiny experience of intentionally living from your Natural Paradigm. It is well understood by now that we need not worry about saving the planet. The Earth, and the complexity of life that calls it home, will outlive us. Life on Earth first emerged in a seemingly toxic atmosphere, and went on to survive ice ages and meteors, tectonic shifts and drifts. The diversity and disbursement of flora and fauna have changed dramatically over the past few billion years, but life has managed to continue. Human-induced climate change, biodiversity loss, mass extinction, ecosystem destruction, macro and micro plastics, and forever chemicals will — already are — changing conditions for life on Earth, but life in some form will go on. It is well understood, then, that we need not worry about saving the planet, but we do need to worry about saving ourselves, humankind.
Human-induced inequities mean that the peoples of the global south, as well as black and brown people everywhere — those that did not initiate this destruction — are and will continue to be hit first and hit hardest. But none of us are safe. Even in the most affluent countries, babies are born with myriad unnatural chemicals in their bodies. Sperm counts are down and cancer rates are up. Floods and fires take turns consuming real estate. While the physical threats are real, increasing, and inescapable, there is another sort of threat that is both a cause and an effect of our own making that we tend to ignore. That is the existential threat of our dominant cultural paradigm — what we believe to be true about the world, the way it works, and our role in it. If you grew up in and live in the western developed world, you will, no doubt, leave the Earth worse off than when you found it, regardless of how you choose to live, what you choose to buy, and what you choose to do for a living. Whether you consume 5 times or just twice what the Earth can sustain, you’re still part of the problem. We all are. That is because almost all of our ‘sustainable’ products, processes, principles, practices, and policies are created in and require leveraging an economic system that is dependent on burning fossil fuels and exploiting peoples and places around the world for profit. I am not being righteous or judgmental. Far from it. I am as depressed as the rest of you about the state of the world and the damage I have caused. I live in a big house and drive an electric car. I love to travel. I buy “sustainable” personal care products that come in plastic containers. I’m too cheap to always buy local and organic. So I’m writing this from, I believe, a shared sense of desperation and desire to do something impactful and effective. I’m also coming from a place of empathy. Empathy for you, for myself, for them, for us, and for Nature. When I started searching for sustainable solutions early in my career as a civil engineer, I was focused on technical solutions. I later expanded my search to include frameworks and philosophies, tools and strategies. I wanted to find something that was based in science and actionable, but that also resonated with my soul. Biomimicry — innovation inspired by Nature — seemed to be the thing I was looking for. If we designed all of our products, processes, and even policies to emulate Nature’s strategies and to follow Nature’s rules for sustainability, then surely we could create a sustainable and even beautiful human-made world. As I spent more time working with and teaching biomimicry, I encountered numerous barriers — the same barriers that suppress most radical ideas and innovations. But I also saw how simply being exposed to the concept of biomimicry gave people surprisingly wild hope. Often after a workshop, participants would be so enthusiastic, so positive, so inspired, so bursting with possibilities, it was like watching people fall in love. After a while, I realized that is exactly what was going on. People were falling in love. They were falling in love with life, with curiosity, with emergent thinking, with systems thinking, with co-creativity. For just a little while, they got to see the world, how it works, and their role in it from Nature’s perspective, from Nature’s paradigm. Unfortunately, when they tried to bring this perspective back to the “real world”, the resistance and rejection were all too predictable: That will never work in the real world. As a practitioner of biomimicry I faced this often myself, and it was incredibly frustrating. How could something with so much potential be so discounted, and even ridiculed, by those in power? I wanted to understand why. What is it about the “real world” that makes implementing biomimicry almost impossible? Colleagues and I explored the innovation process, looking for potential failure points. We evaluated business models, organizational structures, and leadership styles against Nature’s strategies and systems. We came up with new nature-inspired principles, processes, and practices. These all seemed to be scientifically sound and were certainly inspiring, but something important was still missing, something deeper. What was missing was an understanding of the underlying paradigm, the belief and value system that drives behaviors and decision-making. The Conventional Paradigm — the dominant cultural paradigm of the “real world” — is based on valuing scarcity, individuality, competition, greed, resistance, and fear. This paradigm is reflected in capitalism, colonialism, white supremacy, Christianity, Enlightenment, Manifest Destiny. This paradigm separates and elevates man above Nature, some men above others, and all men above all women. It requires people to be selfish and paranoid, exploitative and victimized. The curious, and in this case sad, thing about dominant cultural paradigms is that we are often unaware of them, unaware that we subscribe to them even when they are at odds with our personal values. It is my belief that sustainability solutions that emerge from and engage with the Conventional Paradigm can never be successful. They always do more harm than good. By contrast, Nature’s Paradigm values abundance, systems, synergies, trust, resilience, and curiosity. Evolution has eliminated species that didn’t reflect and express these beliefs. The result is life that creates conditions for life and that adapts and evolves. Each and every living thing is interconnected and interdependent. Life is based on respect and reciprocity in an “ecology of caring.” All are valued, empowered, and equipped to participate, to contribute, and to regenerate. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. What’s the answer? It is my belief that the only way for us to address the personal, environmental, and social challenges that we have created for ourselves is to begin living from our Natural Paradigm, to re-align ourselves with Nature. Living from our Natural Paradigm will give us new clarity about the world, the way it really works, and our appropriate role in it. It also, beautifully, empowers us to tap into the individual and collective inspiration, creativity, and wisdom that already exists within ourselves as natural living beings. It will allow us to save ourselves, humankind. [First published on LinkedIn 09Nov2016] My dog died today. It's devastating. That’s the end of 14 years of wagging and wiggling welcomes, long runs and short walks, devotion and pain-in-the-assery, optimism and quiet nobility. If you have or had a dog (or cat or other beloved pet) you know how I feel and what I mean, though the words may be different.
What’s love got to do with it? Everything, of course. Dogs allow us to give love openly, freely, profusely. Dogs compel us to be caring and feel cared for, perhaps to be reflective. Dogs get us to play, to go outside, to engage with the world around us. Dogs help us to be human. That’s why we have them. That’s why we need them. In so much of our daily lives, we’re very much discouraged from being human. It’s inappropriate, uncouth, and certainly unprofessional. At the 2016 Net Impact conference, Aaron Hurst asked our session what it meant to be “professional”. Note that this was in a room full of mostly undergrad business students and MBAs desperate to find a job to pay off their growing-by-the-minute student debt. They’re all dressed, speaking, and behaving very professionally for fear that if they don’t, they won’t make the right impression, won’t get the right business cards, won’t make the right connections. I’m sure his question scrambled their brains (which are very well trained to give the right answer) because they were pretty sure the answer that came to mind was not the one he was looking for, not the right one. What’s the answer? Aaron suggested "professional" meant robotic, easily controlled, not showing up as a human being, and thus not able to form meaningful relationships, at least not at work. What’s love got to do with it? Nothing, of course. Can you imagine giving love openly, freely, profusely at work? How many office cultures compel us to be caring and feel cared for, perhaps to be reflective? When, between 9 and 5, do we get to play, to go outside, to engage with the world around us? When we’re at work, when do we get to be human? We don’t. That’s why we have dogs. That’s why we need dogs. Maybe you don’t have a dog, but hopefully you have had a chance to fall wildly no-hold-barred in love. Remember how that felt? Did you feel utterly selfless yet fully yourself? Did you feel fully engaged and engaging? Did you deeply and authentically listen and feel deeply, authentically listened to? Were you feeling generous, magnanimous, open-minded, and forgiving? Being in love (with a person or a dog) is wonderful. You feel like you can do anything – and want to. You want to share and to bring others along for the ride. It’s what “really good” feels like. Okay, enough of dogs and daydreaming! You’ve got to switch gears back into work mode. You’ve got to attend meetings and meet budgets. You’ve got deadlines and you’re dead tired. You just read that 70% of employees are not engaged at work, but you didn’t need a survey to tell you that. Your team is supposed to be collaborating and innovating, but instead you’re stuck in a quagmire of office politics and office drama. What’s love got to do with it? Everything, of course. If there’s no love, no caring or engaging, no reflection or play, how can you possibly collaborate or innovate? You can’t. Even if you do, in bursts or isolated pockets, someone on another team or up the org chart will resist or reject your fantastic ideas. Conventional work cultures are about scarcity and competition, time and money, fear and greed. Conventional work cultures resist change, reject out-there ideas. Conventional work cultures want answers and proof, not wild ideas and wouldn’t-it-be-great-if scenarios. Conventional work cultures have nothing to do with love – but they should. Collaboration requires connecting and caring. Innovation requires inspiration and imagination. Viable, actionable, radical solutions – the kind we so desperately need -- require curiosity and inquiry, emergent thinking and systems thinking, ideation and action. They require participation with our hearts as well as our heads and our hands. We have to understand the ‘why’ as well as the ‘what’ and the ‘how’. Otherwise, our innovations will be incremental. Otherwise, our solutions will not be designed for humans, human nature, or nature. Otherwise, our solutions will not reflect or reinforce love, or life, or love of life and living. They will not be suitable for our dogs. What’s love got to do with it? Everything, I hope. [first published 12Jan2021 on MASD blog site] As I write this [07Jan2021], many of us are still stunned in disbelief about what happened at the Capitol yesterday. The media is swirling with thoughts, opinions, and insights around politics and processes, constitution and conflicts, freedom and fairness.
One aspect that is emerging for me — especially in the greater context of sustainability — is the intertwined roles of leaders and followers. Most of us, most of the time, are followers. Most of the time, we don’t make decisions and take actions that are independent or proactive — we follow those made by others. For example, we might pick out our own clothing, but we choose from what others have already decided to design and make and distribute and promote and sell. We might decide who to vote for, but we choose from among available candidates, most of whom are white, male, and from privilege. We might choose to eat local or use less energy, but we live in a country that consumes 5 times more resources than the Earth can support. As followers, we may feel that our role is passive. We’re not the one responsible for making things happen or making the big decisions — we’re just going along for the ride. We’re not the one in the know or the one in control — we’re just the innocent by-stander or the victim. We may not even realize that we’re followers, or who we’re following. But a leader can only lead if they have followers, and following is a choice. Following is not neutral. Following is intentional. Following has consequences. “Unintended consequences are the predictable result of intentional ignorance.” Denise DeLuca, Re-Aligning with Nature | Ecological Thinking for Radical Innovation In the world of sustainability, a core problem is that good people — meaning most of us — make choices that have bad (unsustainable) consequences. That is because most of us are followers most of the time, and we abdicate responsibility for consequences to the leaders. In our western capitalist society, many of the people we make into leaders — people we choose to follow — are driven to accumulate personal wealth and power, regardless of the consequences to people and planet. Who are you following? What are their core values? Do their values reflect yours? What are your core values? Can you articulate them? Do you understand how values — yours or theirs — might be reflected in choices and actions or result in consequences? What does it mean if you — and others — can’t answer those questions, or have never even thought about them? As we seek to understand and glean meaning from recent events, it’s natural to spend our energies seeking those to blame; however, we might also want to take some time to look in the mirror and ponder the unintended consequences of our own intentional ignorance. [first published 15June2021 on MASD blog site] Given my role, I’m often asked: What is sustainable design? As some of you know, design is both a noun and a verb. End-users may focus on design as a noun — the end result of a design process. In our program, we focus more on design as a verb — the process of design, specifically sustainable design. The process of design might include research, exploration, creativity, ideation, prototyping, testing, iteration, and communication. The process of sustainable design might also engage specific methodologies, principles, practices, frameworks, and metrics. These are some of the things that students learn in our program. Whatever the process, design involves making choices. Sustainable design is about making choices that lead to a (more) sustainable result. This is very important because it has been estimated that 80% of a product’s impact is determined at the design stage. If you’re not trained in sustainable design (yet), you can still make better — more sustainable — choices by pausing and asking yourself some guiding questions during your own design process and reflecting on the answers that emerge for you. CHOICES Below are a series of guiding questions you can ask yourself during your design process. For each question, pick one or more words from the table that reflect your answers. The words are categorized as ‘more sustainable’ or ‘less sustainable’, and organized by the letters in the word ‘choices’, otherwise, they are not in any order. Guiding Questions
In which column do find your answers showing up? How might you make different choices that would allow you to draw more of your words from the more sustainable column?
These questions and words are just a starting point to get you thinking about what sustainable design means to you. Try coming up with your own guiding questions and words that you feel fit in the two categories for each letter. These can become your personal guide for making sustainable design choices. As we observe the breadth of UN observances in October, from World Habitat Day to World Migratory Bird Day to United Nations Day, we might all be wise and ask a tree—or perhaps a migratory bird—how we might achieve the UN’s SDGs.
Biomimicry has long been known as “innovation inspired by nature” and a “model, measure, and mentor” for sustainable design. If we need ideas, innovations, or guiding principles to help us achieve the SDGs, we need only ask nature. Why? The premise is that evolution reflects extremely rigorous quality-control standards—less than 1/10th of 1% of all species that have ever lived on Earth are around today. Those that have survived, and share the Earth with us, know how to live within the limits and boundaries of the planet, as well as live with each other. Biomimicry gives us tools for discovering functional strategies, processes, and systems that exist in nature and then emulating them to create sustainable design solutions. Honoring and preserving the world’s habitats and inhabitants also honors and preserves the source of the innovative and inspiring solutions that we need to create a future that is regenerative. Beyond sustainable design, biomimicry can help us think about and approach all problems differently. Environmentalists often get accused of being “tree huggers,” but I must admit that when I need solid advice, I often ask a tree. Not out loud, of course—I just look quietly out the window at my neighboring Doug Fir. My questions might be as simple as, “What should I say in this blog piece?" or as consequential as, “How might I best use my unique position, skills, and passions to make positive change in the world?” Trees don’t understand what it means to write blogs or try to change the world, so it asks me a series of clarifying questions. Pondering these questions helps me slow down, reflect, and tap into my deeper knowing, my own “wild wisdom.” Taking this approach to asking nature can yield both more simple and more systems-based solutions. Practicing biomimicry has also given me, and an expanding group of colleagues, a new way to understand how we got ourselves into this mess—climate change, social injustice, poverty—and how we might get ourselves out of it. According to Donella Meadows, the most effective place to intervene and make change in a system is to shift paradigms. The paradigm that got us into this mess is one of scarcity, individuality, competition, greed, fear, and resistance. This is the paradigm of predatory capitalism, supremacy, and exploitation. It’s what we’re talking about when we refer to “The Real World.” Nature’s paradigm, on the other hand, is one of abundance, synergies, systems, trust, curiosity, and resilience. Nature’s design solutions are multi-functional, responsive, adaptive, and regenerative. Participants in nature’s “economy” value and leverage what is locally available and abundant. All living things in nature support the systems they depend on, taking only what they need and giving back in the process of simply living. This is the paradigm that we need to re-align with nature and to create a future that is regenerative. Shifting from the conventional to the natural paradigm may sound impossible, but nature’s paradigm is also our own natural human paradigm. We already know it. Think about the last time you enjoyed a long sunset, smiled at the smell of rain, or lost track of time while playing the guitar, gardening, or talking with a close friend. During those moments, was your worldview one of scarcity or one of abundance, competition or synergy, fear or curiosity, greed or trust, individuality or systems, resistance or resilience? You already know and live the natural paradigm, particularly when you feel most alive. In the workplace, we’ve all heard that culture eats strategy for breakfast. That’s the natural paradigm beating out the conventional paradigm. We’ve also all read about the qualities of a good leader. Those are qualities that reflect the natural paradigm. We all know that resilience and innovation are critical for surviving change and disruption. Those are products of practicing the natural paradigm. So even in the “real world,” we recognize the benefits of the natural paradigm. The conventional paradigm, and the thinking and designs that it generates, got us into this mess. We can use biomimicry, the natural paradigm, and our wild wisdom to achieve the UN’s SDGs and create a future that is regenerative. |
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