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

1. Biomimicry UK
Richard James MacCowan
Co-founder
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2. Fossil Fuels
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3. Climate Change
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4. What?
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5. Who?
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6. Where have we seen it?
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7. Why?
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8. How?
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9. The Challenges
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10. The network
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11. Academia + Practice
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12. Co-operation
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13. Communication
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14. Design Champions
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15. 23/01/13 - Leeds
Metropolitan
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16. Journal
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17. Learning
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18. The Present
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19. The Future...
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20. 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.
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