What can we deduce from the adaptability of animals and plants that would help us create a more sustainable world today? “Before we built the house, we did what we called a genius-of-place-report, because we figured that we are not the first ones to have lived here, that there are a lot of organisms that have been living here for eons. So let’s ask them how they heat themselves, how they ventilate themselves, and how they cool themselves – what kind of materials they use.”