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Richard James MacCowan Co-founder Biomimicry UK Image source: Chris Hobson (Leeds Metropolitan University)

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Richard James MacCowan's presentation to Green Vision conference on Sustainable Materials in Leeds on 12 December 2012.

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Page 1: Green Vision Biomimicry

Richard James MacCowanCo-founder

Biomimicry UK

Image source: Chris Hobson (Leeds Metropolitan University)

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Fossil Fuels

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Climate Change

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What?

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Who?

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Where have we seen it?

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Why?

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How?

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The Challenges

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The network

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Academia + Practice

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Co-operation

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Communication

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Design Champions

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23/01/13 - Leeds Metropolitan

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Journal

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Learning

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The Present

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The Future...

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The Rocky Mountain Institute

IMAGINE a world where the war against the EARTH is over. Where carbon emissions are steadily DECLINING

...and GLOBAL CLIMATE has stabilised.Where successful industries take nothing, WASTE NOTHING and do no

harm.Image the POWER of all of us together to make it so.

Image source: adapted from www.rmi.org