Making a difference takes people doing things differently, including business leaders, politicians and us.

 Here are ways that nature functions to ensure that life grows and flourishes.

There are many lessons for people in this list, for having a successful society, environment and economy.

I wish our economy could do #8 (Nature curbs excesses from within) and cut the roots of ‪#‎extremegreed‬. Then there’d be more prosperity flowing, and we’d all have a better chance to blossom.

Here is Janine Benyus’ TED talk on Biomimicry: http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_biomimicry_in_action