Molecular Biomimetics

Working toward molecular scale solutions for a sustainable world.

This group is dedicated to discussing research in molecular biomimetics from all around the globe.  We will investigate the sustainability and ethics of biotechnology and exemplify the work of scientists whose research truly follows the principles of biomimicry.

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Created: Dec 10, 2007

Updated: Jul 10, 2009

Membership: Open

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Help the Homeless
Green relief for urban refugees
Problem: Whatever the reason people become homeless, we* all become penniless, cold, hot, hungry, confused, stressed, lonely and miserable. Homeless shelters are mostly breeding grounds of despair. Some people that purport to be helping the homeless are exploiting or judging them instead. Many over-churched folks think they can "earn points" or smooth out their "Karma" by reducing their stockpiles of worn and out-of-fashion clothing or donating canned goods and stale baloney sandwiches to a local miss...

Action: So much needs to be done to understand the true nature of homelessness. A subjective look at the problem can be enlightening. Empirical data can be gleaned from close honest contact with urban refugees. Building dialog is of core significance in the following plan of action. A surprising number of homeless people you'll meet are intelligent, articulate, willing to work, and creative, which is profoundly contrary to media-formed belief. Some apparently homeless people have college degrees and ...
Publisher: Brandon Wick
Updated: 8 months ago
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Multi Layer Representation
Natural democracy
Problem: Government is the organizing instrument of society and to make sure that it is acting in the best interests of its citizens, it is managed and controlled by representatives of the citizens who are directly accountable for their performance to the citizens: Representative Government.How to create and structure such a representative government hasn't totally eluded people to date but it could do with some improving.Many of the existing structures carry burdens of historical trappings, most ofte...

Action: Small groups in every constituency, in every nation, must organize now around a standard, new, simple platform and present themselves for election on that platform at every opportunity.The consistent platform will enable and speed the education of the citizenry of all nations, regions and communities. Those who do not wish to stand for office can be powerful in demanding that anyone they vote for adopt the Standards of LIFE as part of their own agenda and commit to promoting them in any way t...
Publisher: Standards of LIFE