On October 20th, The Biomimicry Institute in conjunction with the annual Bioneers conference will be holding a one-day conference “Biomimicry’s Climate-Change Solutions: How Would Nature Do It?” This landmark one-day intensive reveals the leading edge of biomimetic solutions to climate change, modeled on nature’s operating instructions. It’s designed for action-oriented professionals from the fields of […]
Author Archives: David Fox
Biomimicry Resources
NYT PAX/Biomimicry
Mainstream interest in biomimicry is accelerating. Jay Harman’s gives some (cautionary) insights into changing established large industries: “When I started I thought that this would take 6 to 12 months,†Mr. Harman said. What he found instead were companies that had little interest in redesigning their products, even in the face of the promise of […]
SolarCollector
More Monitoring
A few weeks ago I wrote about Agilewaves, and today CNet has a great overview of more than a dozen ‘dashboard’ technologies ranging from simple wall plug adapters that offer a kw reading for individual devices, to a half dozen startups competing in the whole-house market – including Greenbox which was founded by the co-creators […]
Challenging Ideas
The UK’s Daily Telegraph offers up a series titled “Challenging Ideas” to help Honda launch their new Accord. Here’s an excerpt from the first in the short six-part series titled “Natural Leaders”: ‘Biomimicry introduces an era based not on what we can extract from organisms and their ecosystems, but on what we can learn from […]
Showcasing Ideas from Nature
Biomimicry Applications
Peak Oil + Climate Change: Scenarios
David Holmgren (futurist and the co-originator of the permaculture concept with Bill Mollison) explains the issues and points to scenarios in this fascinating site/paper: FutureScenarios.org presents an integrated approach to understanding the potential interaction between Climate Change and Peak Oil using a scenario planning model. In the process I introduce permaculture as a design system […]