Design principle #4: Micro-cracy
In a recent speech given at Lawrence University, Geology professor Marcia Bjornerud presented a “list of five design principles that seem to be signatures of the House of Earth.” The fourth design principle she lists is Micro-cracy.
Micro-cracy, or “rule by the tiny” is a key to understanding the evolution of our planet. “Although the inexorable [...]
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“Design principle #3: Nestedness”
In a recent speech given at Lawrence University, Geology professor Marcia Bjornerud presented a “list of five design principles that seem to be signatures of the House of Earth.” The third design principle she lists is Nestedness.
Bjornerud uses the term “nestedness” to describe the numerous levels of hierarchy in nature—“each level in the hierarchy [...]
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Design Principle #2: Loopiness
In a recent speech given at Lawrence University, Geology professor Marcia Bjornerud presented a “list of five design principles that seem to be signatures of the House of Earth.” The second design principle she lists is Loopiness.
Our planet is arguably the best recycler—remaining forever young through the processes of evaporation, precipitation, oxidation and reduction, [...]
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Design principle #1: Heliophilia
In a recent speech given at Lawrence University, Geology professor Marcia Bjornerud presented a “list of five design principles that seem to be signatures of the House of Earth.” The first design principle she lists is Heliophilia.
What does this mean? At a fundamental level, it means that all life depends upon the sun; the [...]
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Lessons from the Geologic Past
In a recent speech given at Lawrence University, Geology professor Marcia Bjornerud eloquently argues for a “deep respect” of “deep time”—the term Geologists use to refer to the Geologic past. Introducing the term “Geomimicry”, Bjornerud suggests that we look “to the Earth itself as our ‘mentor, model, and measure’ in building new, just, and sustainable [...]
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