How could one curate the #nature tag?

I have been thinking quite a bit about Steemit lately. I have been here for a few months, but have a hard time finding the content that really interests me, so I sometimes stop reading out of frustration. I have a feeling that the content I want is here, the problem is finding it. My interests are not very "straight-forward", you could say.

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Having Unusual Interests

I study plant neurobiology and facilitate nature-inspired design processes, such as biomimicry. My big passions are bringing plant intelligence into architecture and urban planning, exploring plant consciousness, philosophyiing on how a plant mind could run automation and augment reality, and so on. I research these areas, consult on how to bring nature-inspired thinking into projects, and facilitate the biomimicry design process for the creation of products, processes, and services.

So where would someone like me look for content?

In the past I have found some things in #science and #steemstem, but that is usually more related to botany, plant sciences, and other more well-known biologies, where the research is in a particular niche of a known branch. Plant neurobiology is still in the experimental phases, where we are looking to understand the ways plants make decisions. This means that there are few established papers because we still don't even know how to formulate the experiments. What we need is a place where one can throw out and debate theories, find research collaborators, and discuss what protocols make sense to follow. In short, stuff that is way less baked than what you normally find in steemstem.

When I was trying to explore how plants and biomimicry can be integrated into cities, I started looking at #architecture, but that doesn't seem to really get into why and how things were built. Most of what is there are people commenting on beautiful buildings. I would like to know what people think about the Living Building Challenge and the WELL standard vs. Leeds and what impact architecture has in the overall health of the inhabitants and users of a particular structure. All this especially with regards to bringing more nature into the city and creating areas of urban plantasy. There doesn't seem to be any tags being used for for urban planning, biomimicry, circular economy, or nature-inspired systems, especially with respect to plants and other sociological factors.

When looking to contribute on plant consciousness, I hit a brick wall looking into #psychology and #sociology. Understandably so, there you find traditional topics, not necessarily how these topics touch things like plants or architecture.

And as for all the automation and ecological augmented reality, I have never really tried to look. I was afraid of what I would find, and right now I don't have the time to wade through even more content with the hopes of finding one nugget of goodness.

Why not just use search?

You would think that would be easy, but it is not. I am not sure if it is the way search is implemented or the way I am looking, but I can't seem to find much of anything when I use search. In the end, I get a long list of results that are usually outside of Steemit. If anyone has any pointers, I am all ears (or would it be eyes in this case, since I have to read it?).

Possible solutions

I was looking at the #nature tag, which is the one thing that touches all the subjects I have mentioned above, and see that it is a huge catch-all bucket. Sure, there are tags like #animal, #flower, #gardening, #natural, but none are refined enough to really get into these types of cutting-edge topics. There are not even any tags related to plants or trees!

I will admit, I know nothing about curation or delegation, but if there is someone that shares any of the interests above and knows what it takes to create a really kick-butt tag with great content, I would be all over it. I am actually an extremely technical person (used to work in high-tech), but for some reason I have yet to wrap my head around how some things work around here, so I need help.

Would you be interested in thinking about what new tags could be created and how to give them visibility??

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