Biomimicry + Green Chemistry = New Solutions: “Our aspiration is to learn some new design principles from nature that we haven’t yet actually been using in man-made materials that we can then apply to make man-made materials even better,†said Chicago postdoctoral scholar Niels Holten-Andersen. Continued at: http://www.gizmag.com/ By building on recent advances that used […]
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Backyard Biomimicry Workshops
Get some hand on biomimicry experience: Learn about biomimicry in the context of your local ecosystem with the foremost leaders in the field and connect with others in your regional biomimicry network. In this Backyard Biomimicry workshop, you’ll co-learn with students and professionals of various disciplines about the foundations of biomimicry and equip yourself to […]
Professional Pathways | Biomimicry Group
News from the Biomimicry Group: AÂ press release going out on Monday, but I wanted you all to be the first to know about our very first online video contest! Â We are giving away 3 seats in our upcoming Backyard Biomimicry 3-day workshops (a $750 value!) to the best 60 second video responses to “Why biomimicry? […]
Biomimicry Taking Off
If you’re flying United this month you can read this article in print, but if not…check it out on United’s web site. The fast-growing field of biomimicry encourages innovators to look to nature-in all its wonder and weirdness-for solutions to our trickiest problems. Continued in Hemispheres Magazine…
Top 5 Nature Related Biomimicry Articles
RobAid.com is site that covers robots, gadgets, technology and bionics. They offer an interesting  “Top 5” biomimicry-related list for 2010. If nothing else, the world around us had much more time to shape itself to the current layout we can see around us. By learning from nature, and implementing those ideas, we can improve the […]