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. […]
Category Archives: biomimicry
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 […]
Janine Benyus Previews “Ask Nature” at GreenBuild
AskNature.org to Provide Biological Design Information, Enabling More Sustainable Design
Biomimicry in Auto Sports
It’s great to see biomimicry pop up in unusual places. Here’s a blog post that asks how nature would corner faster, go further, and stop sooner: How do we implement this into F1? Well, I have racked my brain over this matter for a while and have come up with a few ways biomimicry could […]
PAX Fan on Display at MOMA
Giving Nature a Nudge to Calm Climate Change
This morning at the Biomimicry Climate Change Conference, Jay Harman (founder of PAX Scientific) announced The COMMET Project. More info to follow – this could be a critical breakthrough as the window of opportunity to create the long-term solutions is closing rapidly.
Solar Botanic’s Nanoleaf
Buildings (and more) Inspired by Nature
Making it three articles in as many months, Fortune covers the recently announced collaboration between HOK and The Biomimicry Guild: What gets people excited about biomimicry is its potential to help solve environmental problems like climate change. If we can design buildings and products to operate more like nature, which does not pollute and creates […]