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THE NEW TANNER20THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 EDEN MILLS PARTY:Eden Mills held its first ever street party last Friday, host-ed by Eden Mills Canada Summer Jobs Youth, Eden Mills Community Club and Village Enhancement and Liveable Streets (VELS). A new street front mural was unveiled and there were activities for children, in-cluding a scavenger hunt. On hand were, from left: Janet Wilson, Claire Paller, Guelph/Eramosa Township Mayor Chris White, Liz Nagel, Lyon Lay and Travis Clifford. Submitted photoBiomimicry: Natures brilliance offers hope for sustainable futureBy David Suzukiis simple: Leaves on a with Faisal Moolaforest floor create aesthet-ically seamless surfaces Somby exhibiting organized etimes a new sci-Sciencechaos. This led one of ence emerges that not onour board members, Ray ly offers hope for our Anderson, the founder and continued survival as chair of the worlds largest a species but that also mcarpet tile manufacturer, akes obvious how little MatterswInterface Inc., to create re-e have really learned in oucyclable carpeting that can r relatively brief time By David Suzukion Earth.be replaced one square at Anthropocene epoch, a splitting the atom, chloro-four billion years to deal stitutes website points a time without concern In the past, it took cen--time when human beings fluorocarbons, phosphate with the challenges hu-out: The conscious emufor matching the patterns turies or even millennia have become a geological fertilizers, and, of course, mans face how to find lation of lifes genius is a because no two tiles are to fully exploit a techno-force.harnessing the energy of food and shelter, what survival strategy for the alike. He says it is the logical breakthrough, Were starting human race, a path to a to real-fossil fuels.to do with waste, how to bumost popular brand.t modern technology, sustainable future. The ize, though, that while our What can we learn?avoid being eaten, what Other great ideas include fuelled by cheap energy, more our world functions technologies are power-To start, we must realize to do when sick, and so looking at termite mounds exploded in the 20th cen-ful our sense of control like the natural world, the is that we are a part of nature on. She believes we can to learn about low-cost tury. Machinery driven often more likely we are to en-illusory; the appli-and that nature has a lot to learn from that wealth of by building ventilation, fossil fuels has ampli-cadure on this home that is tion of brute power to teach us. 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