[3:00] The false separateness we've created between ourselves and nature: "If we can go back to the essence of how life works to align how we design our economy, our companies and our innovation strategies with how nature works, we'd all be much better off."

[5:00] Bringing natural intelligence and indigenous wisdom into our design: "We behave like we're isolated from nature, they behave like they're a part of nature."

[6:00] Giving a voice to nature in decision making: "Their decision making is built on interdependency, while ours is built on human superiority and we don't take into account all of the relations that are actually vital for our lives."

"As a citizen of the so-called 'developed' world, I wonder if we have developed the wrong things."

[8:30] Changing our relationship with nature starts with the language we use. Indigenous cultures see nature as a relation and don't use the "it" pronoun, just as we wouldn't call a pet "it."

[10:30] Nature filmmakers sometimes glorify the spectacle of a hunt, but it's not the main part of the story or even the most important part - "In your body, if you take away collaboration, you cease to exist. In nature, you more often see strategies to AVOID competition."

[13:30] Competition is the exception, rather than the rule. Cancer is fundamentally cells that have forgotten about the system...cancer is what happens when collaboration fails."

[17:30] Did we domesticate wolves, or did they domesticate themselves as a cooperative survival strategy?

[21:30] How diversity creates resilience - "WE are an ecosystem" - every human is made up of more non-human cells than human cells
"We're putting all of our focus on big technological interventions for the climate." Working WITH nature "would be so much easier, less risky and less costly to restore the planet. Not only would that be good for the climate, but it would be incredibly positive for the economy."

[26:30] "Bio-logical" - It only counts as an investment if it makes the world better off

[27:00] "Nature has been working with chemistry for billions of years. Imagine if our finest chemists understood how this worked and redesigned our products in nature's image" to be non-toxic for humans and for the planet

[32:00] Biomimicry - nature has already solved many of the problems we face today
-How sharkskin inspired a new surface that resists bacteria and viruses

[35:30] Building an organizational structure on the natural intelligence of bottom-up agility - using simple rules rather than top-down hierarchy
See Frederic Laloux's ReInventing Organizations here: https://www.reinventingorganizations.com/

[42:00] How to get started on the journey of natural intelligence
-Product-level, process-level, systems-level
-From de-generative to re-generative

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