Category Archives: biomimicry
Biomimicry Workshop in September
Re-thinking Animal Intelligence
Fascinating program this morning from one of my favorite radio shows/podcasts: In Baltimore, Maryland, there’s an octopus that likes to play with toys. In Vienna, Austria, there’s a border collie with a vocabulary of 340 words – more than many toddlers. Southeast Asia is home to dozens of elephants who like to paint. In this […]
Whales, Dolphins and Wind Turbine Design
Life in 2020
Conference: Biomimicry’s Climate-Change Solutions
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]