Resources
Databases
System mapping
- Systems map examples
- Templates and blank canvasses on Miro
- SImple systems with feedback loops on loopy
- more complex maps with Kumu
- Using different types of models on your system with insight maker
- Another tool to make maps lucidchart
- using node based system mapping with cytoscape
Local context finding
- National Geographic World Biomes map
- ASU biomes explanation
- World climate regions’ different maps
- Local climate data from climaplus
- World elevation map
- Some figures about world cultural differences, (the culture map is not an all-encompassing work)
- Renewable energy potential map from Irena
Brainstorming
Prototyping
- Materiom biobased materials databse
Further reading
- Zygote quarterly magazine
- Thinking in systems – Donella Meadows
- Ecosystems?
- The secret network of nature – Peter Wohlleben
- The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision – Fritjof Capra & Pier Luigi Luisi
- Biomimicry – Janine Benyus
- Biomimicry Resource Handbook – Dayna Baumeister
- Building Biomimicry Bridges a toolbox – Laura Lee Stevens
- Regenerative Urban Design and Ecosystem Biomimicry – Maibritt Pedersen Zari
- How to Connect with Nature – Tristan Gooley
- How to Read Nature – Tristan Gooley
Further watching
- HHMI Biointeractive Collection – Waterbear
- How Water Makes Climate – Waterbear
- The Breakdown – Waterbear
- Ecosystem ecology – Bozeman science
- Tragedy of the Commons – TedEd
- What if there were a trillion more trees – TedEd
- Why is biodiversity so important? – TedEd
- Feedback loops: How nature gets its rhythms – TedEd
- A guide to the energy of the Earth – TedEd
- A playlist for protecting the planet – Ted
Further listening
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