Monthly Archives: September 2008
The Blossoming of Biomimicry
A biomimicry update from a fellow Biomimicry Institute board member, and long-time cleantech commentator Joel Makower. Will biomimicry blossom, joining green chemistry among the burgeoning tools available to build the next generation of cleaner, greener products? It remains to be seen, of course, but biomimicry makes too much common sense to be dismissed as a […]
Picturing Biomimicry
Getting Serious about Solving the Carbon Problem
Outspoken VC Vinod Khosla speaks at the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference. Is the “the current green movement as more about style than substance”? I might not agree with all he has to say, but Koshla is one person worth following closely.
Open Sustainability Network Event
Building the Bio-inspired City
Find Good Stuff
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Inspried by Trout
What does a water-purification system have to do with a trout? Find out via an interesting post at greentechmedia: When it comes to water technology, nature appears poised to become a major player. Similar to the Watreco and Parc situation, a group of startups – Novozymes and Aquaporin – are facing off against an industrial […]
Biomimicry in Popular Mechanics
The biomimicry meme continues to spread through mainstream media: An airplane systems engineer, a shower designer and a biologist walk into a Costa Rican rain forest. “This is the neatest thing I’ve found this week,†says the airplane engineer, from Boeing, pointing to a cluster of daddy-longleg spiders gently oscillating on the trunk of a […]