02 TED Talk - Using Nature's Genius in Architecture

Further research on distributed architecture. Here, Michael Pawlyn talks about biomimicry which has inspired a new approach to design.
"...talking about the linear to closed loop idea.  The way we tend to use resources is we extract them, we turn them into short-life products and then dispose of them.  Nature works very differently.  In ecosystems, the waste from one organism becomes the nutrient for something else in that system."