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In the wine-infused post-dinner conversation with an out of town house guest this week, was a rather drastic.  Our host said "we need to calm our cleverness" in response to some branch of our conversation.  "Wow ... that is quite an interesting thing to say" was my reaction, or at least thats how I remember it.  I was thinking at the time about my struggles with those who want to complement, stimulate, or else their goose aquaponics systems rather than rely on nature to find the balance point of their system.

He clarifies that he actually could not take credit for it, but rather it was something that his boss often said.  Who is his boss?  Our friend feels lucky to have the Chief Operating Officer for the Biomimicry Institute, and his boss is Janine Benyus, the author of the groundbreaking book "Biomimicry: innovation inspired by Nature".

I am a relative newcomer in the concept of biomimicry and Mrs. Benyus work, have been introduced to in January by James Godsil from Sweetwater through a TED talk (see the video link below), but if there is a patron saint of aquaponics ever, she is still.  This fantastic Lady spent her adult life develop and promote the following ideas …

Nature as model: Biomimicry is a new science that studies natures models and pulls inspiration from imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems (aquaculture waste or warehouse urban agriculture, anyone?)Nature as measure: Biomimicry uses an ecological standard for assessing "correctness" of our innovations.  After 3.8 billion years of evolution, nature has learned: what works.  What is appropriate.  What lasts.Nature as mentor: Biomimicry is a new way of displaying and appreciation of nature.  It introduces an era based not on what we can take advantage of the natural world, but on what we can learn from it.

These components of the definition of "biomimicry" be entered before the first chapter of her book to set the stage for whats to come next.  What intrigues me the most is point 3.  I grew up with the idea that we a la the Visual nature of God hand over the keys to Earth Adam with the implicit assumption that character was brought here serve us to review.  However, this myth has picked up and should be replaced with a mentality of humility and "child mind", as my friends Buddhist would say.  Benyus put it so eloquently in her introductory chapter titled "imitation of Nature":

If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today a breath before midnight on New years Eve, we came a barely 15 minutes ago, and all of recorded history in the past has blinked sixty seconds.  Luckily for us, our planet-mates-the fantastic network of plants, animals and microbes – are perfecting their wares patiently since March; an incredible 3.8 billion years since the first bacteria.

I love the direct connection between its identification of our "planet-mates" as a network of "plants, animals or microbes" and aquaponics.  In an aquaponic system, we have indeed a microcosm of our planet created by the construction of a living ecosystem that offers lively lessons in how to learn from nature instead of the extract from it.  We just need to "calm our cleverness" first.

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