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About This Collection
The design and production of materials, structures, and systems that are modeled on biological entities and processes.
"Biomimicry is an approach to innovation that seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies. The goal is to create products, processes, and policies—new ways of living—that are well-adapted to life on earth over the long haul. The core idea is that nature has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with. Animals, plants, and microbes are the consummate engineers. After billions of years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival." Biomimicry Institute.
Download an infographic on biomimicry here. It is available courtesy of RS Components.
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Becoming a Welcome Species: Biomimicry and the Art of Generous Design by Janine Benyus |
Janine Benyus – Becoming a Welcome Species: Biomimicry and the Art of Generous Design Apr 10, 2025
If humans are to come home to this planet, we need to become a welcome species, a gift-giver to the places we inhabit. Janine Benyus, the world-renowned “Godmother of Biomimicry,” and her colleagues at Biomimicry 3.8 have been demonstrating what it takes to design human settlements—cities, village, homes, and businesses—that create the same ecological gifts as the wildland next door.
In this presentation, she helps us imagine a city that functions like a forest—storing the same amount of water, cleaning and cooling the same amount of air, cycling as many nutrients, and nurturing as much biodiversity. She also shares inspiring news about some of Biomimicry 3.8’s “Project Positive” initiatives that reveal that this regenerative vision is indeed achievable and within our reach, if we are able to quiet our human cleverness sufficiently to be able to ask: What would Nature do here?
Learn more about Janine Benyus' work at https://biomimicry.net/ EarthSayer Janine Benyus |
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Backlash Against Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change by Suzanne Simard
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The Ecological Design Revolution by John Todd
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The voice of the natural world by Bernie Krause
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Biomimicry at the nano level by Dr. Low Hong Yee
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Biomimicry is more than just good design
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Looking to Nature: Biomimicry and Design
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Sustainability and Getting Better Answers by George Crombie
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The world is poorly designed. But copying nature helps
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