To add to the list of biomimicry events in October – biomimicry and the Institute will be featured at Night Life at the California Academy of Sciences on October 13th.
We launched the first Biomimicry Youth Challenge this year, and the winners in each of three categories: 1) elementary school students wrote an entire musical play using the songs on Ask the Planet!; 2) 6th graders were inspired by the circulatory system in the paws of wolves to design a self-warming boot called “Cozy Paws,†that has webs of water-filled tubes running through the rubber on the bottom of the boot. The water is kept warm by a friction-creating motor located in the heel of the boot that produces heat; and 3) high school seniorMary Furth, of the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich, Connecticut, who conducted an original biological research project on the potential of chemicals present in geraniums to act as a non-toxic inhibitor of certain garden pests, a vital first-step to establishing the chemicals’ functionality and to potentially synthesizing the natural pesticide.
AskNature is a finalist for the Index Award, the world’s biggest design award. There will be five winners, who will receive a total of 500,000 euros, but there will be an exhibit of all the finalists that will travel for the coming year, so we will be part of that, no matter what.
Watch Janine Benyus speaking to the Nobel Laureate Symposium in Stockholm in May: http://on.fb.me/k2YwLR
