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The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
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I am absolutely delighted to let you know that my new album, 'ECOSYSTEMS' has just been published: stanislav.photography/ecosystems
It has been presented at the Club of Rome 50th Anniversary meeting, the United Nations COP24 conference on climate change, a large exhibition held at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University and the Environment Europe Oxford Spring School in Ecological Economics and now at the United Nations World Urban Forum 2020. There are only 450 copies left so you will have to be quick: stanislav.photography/ecosystems
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Ecosystem survey in the waters off Myanmar
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Diego Molano Vega, Minister of Information and Communications Technologies of Colombia at The Innovation Ecosystem Session. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
Multiple forms of Ecosystems can be found in Nature possessing remarkable efficiencies. Jones (2008) explains that the term Ecomimicry describes the mimicking of natural Ecosystems and translating it to the human scale.
An Ecosystem represents the interaction between a living organism and its environment creating systems to improve the living conditions of its community additionally increasing the amount of outputs from the same inputs. ‘The more that Ecosystems mature, the more they enhance their environment and allow greater diversity,’ (Pawlyn, 2011). Ecosystems create cycles to recirculate waste using a minimum of energy.
Sustainability is the concept of durability consisting in creating a positive evolution over time, having the capacity to endure without destroying itself. To achieve Sustainability it is essential to restore the relationship between Nature and the environment that we build. ‘Sustainability is as much about keeping buildings in existence as it is about constructing new low-impact efficient designs’ (Kellert, 2008). ‘Sustainability goes hand-in-hand with a new respect for Nature coming from biophilia’ explains Kellert. In term of Architecture, Sustainability begins with taking care of the existing buildings. Including the notion of Sustainability in new Architecture could improve the quality of life. ‘As humanity’s expectations and population have grown, our vision of environmental Sustainability must radically evolve into a different picture than the snapshot from pre-industrial times’ ad Kellert (2008).
In Nature we can find great insect builders such as the habitat of the Thermites. They developed a system for natural air circulation powered by the sun to regulate the varying temperatures in different areas of their mound explains Senosiain (2003). Those underground megacities are built with a zero-waste method of construction. Adapted to the human scale we can compare those mounds to cathedrals. ‘The form of termite mounds can be explained as elaborate systems for thermal control in order to create optimum egg-laying conditions for the queen termite and ideal temperatures for fungus farming’ (Pawlyn, 2012). This ingenious control of air circulation is created by ventilation tubes that thermites can open or close depending of the temperature inside the mound. Thermites also create thermal storage build in strategic areas of the mound.
On the outside, thermites build external shading devices to protect their habitat against the sun and prevent overheat.
The architect Mick Pearce (2012) describes a building he designed called Eastgate Development Harare in Zimbabwe (fig. 22) were he used passive ventilation to regulate the temperature in based on ‘the way that termites construct their nest to ventilate, cool and heat’.
Ecosystems are largely represented in forests such as the tropical forests described as ‘Incubator of life’ by National Geographic. Tropical rainforests can be seen has a complete Ecosystem representing a large biodiversity. It manages to keep the same temperatures all year long and produces a large amount of oxygen from carbon dioxide for the species living in it. The evaporation of water coming from trees is transformed to rain forming a cycle. Tropical forests are arranged in four layers. The emergent layer consists of gigantic and strong trees that protect those under. The next layer consists of trees forming a canopy and protecting from the strong sunlight. The next one is found between the canopy and the forest ground called the understory and creating a dark and cool area. Finally, the forest ground is composed of plants and trees in decomposition creating resources, habitat and food for the insects. Grimshaw architects designed in 2005 a project called Eco-Rainforest that ‘aims to recreate a piece of Amazonian rainforest as faithfully as possible’. The project had to respond to the demand of a client asking for a carbon-neutral botanical visitor attraction.
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A building only constituted in straight lines do not invite the brain to creativity. How can we be inspired by nature? Is it possible to adapt those habitats to human?
The essay has demonstrated a large variety of application from the natural world generated by the science of Biomimicry. It presented the status of technologies that architects are currently using. Creating a bridge between science and Architecture could be seen as the beginning of a new era improving both the environment and human life quality.
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
Peatlands provide vital ecosystem services for people and the environment.
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Participants at The Innovation Ecosystem Session. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
On 11 October, the Partnership for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction (PEDRR) and FEBA (Friends of Ecosystem-based Adaptation) organised a seminar to explore the nexus between gender inclusiveness and ecosystem-based approaches to disaster risk reduction to mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on 13 October. Three speakers and five panelists joined the presentation session and a panel discussion. On the occasion of this event, the new source book Disasters and Ecosystems: Resilience in a Changing Climate with a new chapter on gender mainstreaming in ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) was launched. In addition, PEDRR launched its new visual identity and presented its new Virtual Global Support Centre. The Centre will offer technical expertise on Eco-DRR, a virtual library, new regional networks and knowledge hubs, and more access to data, maps, and tools. Over 50 people and 11 representatives from permanent missions (Algeria, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, the European Union, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Nauru, Pakistan, Togo) joined the event.
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Ambyvalley road,Lonavala,Mah.India
The coolest season has set in.Nights bitingly cold...gusty, howling wind blowing from the Himalayas in the north.
The hustle and bustle of Melbourne coupled with Melbourne's biggest ScaleUps. Photos by Tim Carrafa.
Phuong and Nga's family business, a cafe built on stilts which has been damaged by numerous floods in recent years.
Diego Molano Vega, Minister of Information and Communications Technologies of Colombia at The Innovation Ecosystem Session. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Benedikt von Loebell
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Apparently, Mono Lake is one of the oldest lakes in North America and thought to be about one million years old.
Freshwater, minerals and salts arrive in the lake via a long journey down streams that course the slopes of the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Once it all gets here, it has nowhere else to go. In this closed system, freshwater springs bubble up from the base of the lake. As that freshwater evaporates, a residue of calcium carbonate and other minerals/salts are left behind, forming columns and knobbly formations all around the lake. (Once upon a time, all these formations were under water.) The water left behind in the lake is very alkaline and 2.5 times as salty as the water in the sea, which is why the seabirds bob along at such a jaunty angle with their tails high up.
The flotation possibilities here are many and varied - if you are a bird that is!
Mono Lake, Mono County, California.
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Beatriz da Costa, Invisible Earthlings (2009) Invisible EarthlingsInvisible Earthlings is an investigation into the possibilities of relating between humans and members of the lived non-human worlds that we are least likely to recognize as social actors within urban environments: microbes. Microbes, partially defined by their small size and the fact that they are commonly not visible to the human eye, quite literally escape our view and thereby our awareness of their existence. Although most people have some vague notion about the importance of microbes in our ecosystems, microbes commonly only receive our attention when they are perceived to cause problems—"problems" in this case defined as either harmful to human, plant, and animal health, or our material goods. But what type of activities are the numerous relatives of these so-called "harmful microbes" performing while we are walking by, stepping right on top of them, or busily shopping for "mold resistant" building materials? What types of organisms are present, what types were present once but are no longer, and why? Where did they come from, what do we know about them, what type of roles have and are they performing in different historical and geographical settings?.