Environmentally-sensitive design: Leonardo WAS right!
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The design of environmentally-sensitive products and manufacturing facilities is considered by some members of the industrial community to be one of the current frontiers of engineering practice, while others consider it to be another fad. Here today but gone tomorrow. This paper examines this topic from a biological stance by asserting that humankind’s activities should emulate nature’s flora and fauna, and the ecosystems that support them. Leonardo da Vinci’s profound words of some five centuries ago concerning nature’s inventive genius provides the motivation. Subsequently these words are buttressed by a set of fundamental biological canons that provide the basis for engineering design rules governing the efficient management of natural resources. Q 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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