From: Ben de Vries <bendevries1968@gmail.com> Subject: Your invitation to a work party Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 11:50 AM This is the invitation: WORK PARTY! March 2010 Tropical location, from Florida ~$300 round trip, passport required. If enough people get on the same plane a group rate is possible. We will be doing work on […]
Author Archives: David Fox
San Diego Zoo Announces Focus on Biomimicry
I met some of the enthusiastic folks from San Diego at the Bioneers conference in October and so I’m really pleased to see their efforts moving forward: Subject : Biomimicry and the San Diego Zoo Date : Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:01:00 -0800 From : “Helen Cheng” <HCheng@sandiegozoo.org> Happy New Year! Thank you for your […]
Inventors Find Inspiration in Natural Phenomena
As we close out a great year for biomimicry, here’s a short article from the Washington Post’s ‘Green’ section: For some, whale watching is a tourist activity. For Gunter Pauli, it is a source of technological inspiration. “I see a whale, I see a six-to-12-volt electric generator that is able to pump 1,000 liters per […]
Celebrating the “Mother of all Demos”
I first visited San Francisco in 1985 on my way to Boston for MacWorld Expo. I returned a few months later for the west coast MacWorld. Little did I know that key pieces of the ‘revolutionary’ Mac technolgy were demonstrated in same convention center almost two decades earlier, on December 9th, 1968. It has since come […]
Scientists Create Tough Ceramic That Mimics Mother of Pearl
I REALLY like press releases that open like this: Biomimicry – technological innovation inspired by nature – is one of the hottest ideas in science… But what a downer then to read: …but has yet to yield many practical advances. Ooops, too fast, now the good news! Time for a change. Scientists with the U.S. […]
ShopBot – Moving Beyond Squares and Circles
In the late 80s I represented Seattle based Aldus Corporation. Aldus was one of a handful of companies that fostered “desktop publishing”. A combination of software (like Aldus PageMaker), the Apple LaserWriter and the Mac (not to mention the mouse and high resolution monitors) enabled regular folks to publish high quality newsletters, magazines and books. […]
AskNature.org: A Peek Into Mother Nature’s R&D Lab
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 […]