TED Conversations  Rachel Armstrong  The University of Greenwich
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will open on February 8th, 2012 at 1pm EST, 6pm UK time. Join
the conversation as Rachel discusses her view on ecological
humans and city 2.0.  We are not machines but Ecological Humans.
We depend on our networks for survival, like an oak tree in the
forest, being made up of highly interacting and interdependent
systems. For example, eating is not simply consuming ‘fuel’ to
feed our body-machine but is a mutual relationship shared
between our gut bacteria, our food and our bodies (which, in
turn, are highly interconnected assemblages of specialised
tissues). The way that we see ourselves influences the way that
we operate through the world in all aspects of our lives - from
health, to business and even space exploration!  Ecological
Humans, imagine the City 2.0 as being grown from the bottom-up
by its communities. It is