Sahara Thagunna chats to Sue Swain, founder and executive director of BioWise, a Social Enterprise promoting the practice of BIOMIMICRY, learning and applying nature-inspired strategies in design. Sue explains all in this very informative chat.
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About Sue Swain
A qualified nature conservationist, Sue Swain’s work in the conservation field has taken her from Cape Point to Skaftafell Nature Reserve in Iceland, to Addo Elephant National Park, to Working for Water projects in and around Port Elizabeth, and to the Garden Route National Park. Sue’s primary focus has always been on environmental education and social ecology.
Sue’s deep passion is biomimicry. She is the founder and executive director of BioWise, a social enterprise that promotes the practice of biomimicry. As a certified biomimicry educator and practitioner, Sue has been immersed in this field since 2006. Sue conceptualized and coordinated the concept design of a Biomimicry Discovery Park for the Garden Route and has also developed a ‘bio-wise’ model for towns that focuses on ‘earth-savvy’ living.
A thought leader who believes we are capable of so much more as a species, Sue has extensive experience as a biomimicry educator, having presented & lectured on biomimicry to more than 180 special interest groups, schools & tertiary institutes, businesses and all spheres of government. Her latest venture in this regard saw her invited to present a series of lectures on The World in December 2018.
Follow Sue Swain on Instagram – @planetpartner_sue
About BioWise
BioWise is a Non Profit Company based in the Garden Route that
promotes the ethos and practice of biomimicry as a sustainability model.
The BioWise Vision – A world modeled on natural systems and processes where all life thrives as an integral part of a resilient, responsive and regenerative system.
Our Purpose – To bring about naturally integrated, resilient and thriving communities by promoting the practice of biomimicry and the pursuit of a regenerative economy.
The BioWise Mission – To facilitate the widespread uptake of biomimicry and bio-wise living throughout South Africa and Africa
Our Strategy – To establish Knysna and the Garden Route as a biomimicry hub serving as a replicable model and inspiration for others
Contact BioWise www.biowise.org.za www.facebook.com/biowise.org.za www.facebook.com/wastenothingknysna
Nature has a 3.8 billion year head start on innovation…
We, as humans, are actually an incredibly young species, having only arrived some 200 000 years ago. That is almost insignificant, measured against the time that life has existed on this planet, some 3.8 billion years. Over countless ages, life has learnt to tap into and work with natural forces and processes to produce models exquisite in their design and capabilities.
Most of what we deem human innovation has been ‘invented’ by nature in some shape or other, many times over again, and we’ve only just begun to comprehend the stockpile of solutions laying right outside our doors.
Biomimicry: Doing it nature’s way has become a full blown science.
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