May 2009 Newsletter (Issue 7.2) - Special '2009 Alumni Gathering' Edition

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Welcome to the second issue of 2009, containing the first set of articles on the '2009 Alumni Gathering' held in February at the San Diego Zoo, California.

• a personal perspective on the event (Taryn Mead)
• architecture practice and process based on living systems (Raymond Lucchesi)
• Biomimicry, The Game (Faye Yoshihara)
• a discussion on competition and cooperation (Robyn Klein, Dayna Baumeister, Janet Kübler)
• the power of the collective (Emmet Brady)

Other articles in this issue:

• an overview of AskNature.org (Sherry Ritter, Norbert Hoeller)
• three summaries on advances in architecture, wind power and solar tracking
• results of the February newsletter survey

This issue contains links to article authors' AskNature.org profiles instead of e-mail addresses.  All links in the PDF file have been tested - see the 2006/03/27 update in Hints and Tips on getting rid of the Adobe Reader Block/Allow messages.

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Comments

[Earthsaver]

Regarding "Competition vs. Cooperation," I ask: what about coopetition?; sharing resources with adversaries for mutual benefit and improving all outcomes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coopetition