Monthly Archives: November 2008
Janine Benyus and EO Wilson Share Greenbuild’s Closing Keynote
Bob Dylan’s “…for the times they are a changing…” echoed in the cavernous main hall of Boston’s Conference and Exhibition Center as two modern-day ‘rock stars’ prepared to take the stage for Greenbuild’s closing presentation. 29,752 showed up this week despite the turmoil in financial markets and thousands were inspired and learn about two critical sustainability tools. A […]
Janine Benyus Previews “Ask Nature” at GreenBuild
AskNature.org to Provide Biological Design Information, Enabling More Sustainable Design
In a rousing opening address at this year’s Bioneers conference, event co-founder Kenny Ausubel outlined his vision: “…to re-imagine how to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations.” He went on to highlight biomimicry as “arguably the single most important design strategy to shoot the rapids […]
Biomimicry in Auto Sports
It’s great to see biomimicry pop up in unusual places. Here’s a blog post that asks how nature would corner faster, go further, and stop sooner: How do we implement this into F1? Well, I have racked my brain over this matter for a while and have come up with a few ways biomimicry could […]