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 […]
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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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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
In a rousing opening address at this year’s Bioneers conference, event co-founder Kenny Ausubel outlined his vision: “…to re-imagine how to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations.” He went on to highlight biomimicry as “arguably the single most important design strategy to shoot the rapids […]
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 […]