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For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact... →
Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple... →
Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to... →
Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.
Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being... →
Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.
Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get.
There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.
Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earth's most precious gift.
We're basically this very young species, only 200,000 years old. We're one of the newcomers, and we're going through the same process... →
Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to... →
Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.
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