Category Archives: biomimicry

The Wall Street Journal asks four leading architects for their vision of a near-term, buildable ‘green house of the future”. What will the energy-efficient house of the future look like? It could have gardens on its walls or a pond stocked with fish for dinner. It might mimic a tree, turning sunlight into energy and […]

I met a couple of enthusiastic folks from San Diego at Bioneers last year and wrote about their initial progress in December, so its great to read about their progress: Dear friends, Biomimicry continues to grow in San Diego!  Please see below for some of the highlights. 1.  Biomimicry Educational Conference.  The San Diego Zoo […]

  It gives one hope… Participating in the fair for his first time, third-grader Matthew Keane of Westlake Elementary stood proudly in front of his biomimicry display. “I wanted to learn if the leading edge of a humpback whale’s fin made it more efficient and hydrodynamic,” Keane said. “So I made two different whirly birds […]

Via MSNBC via Discovery, news that scientists hope to create a sunscreen product inspired by hippo sweat. I liked the closing comment. “As a student said to me several years ago, nature is full of solutions to our technical problems,” he said. “We just have to figure out how to look in the right place, […]

Janine Benyus and Gunter Pauli team up on a short list for Harvard Business Review that includes water harvesting from fog and a broader view of solar. Biomimics draw inspiration for new product designs from biological processes, physical traits, and behavioral strategies observed in nature….Today we look ever more systematically to nature for sustainable solutions […]

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 […]