168) Keith Bowers [PART 2]: The connectivity and complexity in urban ecology beyond simply 'greening' our landscapes
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
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🗓️ 29 August 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
This is PART 2 of our conversation with Keith Bowers, the Founder and President of Biohabitats who has been at the forefront of applied ecology, land conservation and sustainable design for over three decades.
On this podcast episode, Keith sheds light on what it means to support more technology-driven, novel solutions to our environmental issues as opposed to solutions based more on what we already know of ecology; why simply 'greening' our urban spaces may be inadequate; what ecological democracy is all about; and more.
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| 1:08.8 | The idea that that we think we know more than nature, I think, is obviously a bit ludicrous |
| 1:16.2 | and that we really need to be spending time learning as much as we can about nature as it |
| 1:22.1 | existed and as it exists now in order to move forward. |
| 1:27.7 | That was Keith Bowers, the founder and president of Biohabitats, which is a multidisciplinary |
| 1:33.2 | organization focused on conservation planning, ecological restoration, and regenerative |
| 1:39.0 | design. |
| 1:40.0 | Stay tuned as we're about to go into part two of our two-part extended conversation with Keith. |
| 1:45.5 | If you haven't already, be sure to tune into episode 167 first, which is part one of this interview, |
| 1:51.5 | so then you can get a comprehensive background of Keith's work in ecological restoration and regeneration |
| 1:56.7 | before diving into the rest of our conversation here, where we're going to go on to explore what it means to support more technology-driven, innovative, and new solutions to our environmental issues, as opposed to solutions based more on biomimicry, why simply greening our urban spaces without looking at habitat connectivity and the specific choices of species |
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