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BIOMIMICRY

For any human engineering or design problem we face today, the chances are good that over the last billion or so years nature has devised and optimized at least one elegant, holistic, sustainable solution. Biomimicry actively seeks out those best-in-class designs and "manufacturing" methods and applies them to today's pressing needs. Biomimicry can improve businesses by helping them find nature’s best ideas and then imitate these designs and processes to solve problems.

Biomimicry is part of Business Exchange, suggested by Eileen Stephens. This topic contains 113 news and 168 blog items. Read updated news, blogs, and resources about Biomimicry. Find user-submitted articles and reactions on Biomimicry from like-minded professionals.

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Biomimicry: Ant movements inspire tunnel-digging robots : TreeHuggermore

Biomimicry is a great tool to solve problems. Rather than reinvent the wheel, we can often look at the solutions that...

‘Artificial Forest’ Nanosystem Mimics Photosynthesis, Researchers Say ...more

U.S. scientists have developed what they say is the first integrated nanosystem capable of replicating the process of...

InterfaceFLOR - closing the loop in the manufacturing processmore

little impact on the environment as possible. The tiles' random designs were invented by InterfaceFLOR and inspired by...

Treehouses Move Up a Notch in the Worldmore

price tag for a wooden treehouse. Interior of the 'Djuren' treehouse "From my point of view, it is...

SolidThinking Launches Worldwide Product Design Competition For Colleg...more

their minds. solidThinking Inspired allows users to apply morphogenesis��� form-generation technology ��� which draws...

High notes: Special treatmentmore

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Innovative Nature: Baking Biomimicry Inmore

a strong passion for. Jake is a talent within a talented community that I am willing to support. Biomimicry.

Rolling Stones Keyboardist Pushes Smart Growth Policiesmore

Cellulosic fuel. Biomimicry. Closed-loop manufacturing. Mama cookin chicken fried and bacon grease / Come on along,...

It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's ... a New Seagull-Like Robot Spy Drone...more

so astonishingly convincing in flight it really could pass for a genuine seagull from a distance--a feat of biomimicry...

SXSW 2011: The internet is overmore

by cutting off a resource that's crucial to their daily lives ��� provoke them to greater fury. Biomimicry comes of age...

Ogilvy Notes - Drawing Back the Curtains on CSS Implementationmore

"It's Nature's Way": Innovative Tech Design Through Biomimicry Chris Allen, Holly Harlan, Kathy Zarsky,...

Ogilvy Notes - "It's Nature's Way": Innovative Tech Design T...more

iPad Design Headaches (2 Tablets, Call in the Morning) Josh Clark

Biomimicry Offers Sustainable Solutions Inspired By Naturemore

Biomimicry is design inspired by nature. With 7 billion humans on Earth today -- and demand for natural resources...

Tiny 'hummingbird' drone aims to flutter into enemy territorymore

extended as experiments continue. "This is a new form of man-made flight," Keennon said. It is about...

It's a bird! It's a spy! It's bothmore

extended as experiments continue. "This is a new form of man-made flight," Keennon said. It is about...

Singapore Opens Lab Aiming to Produce Hydrogen Fuel By Imitating Photo...more

providing a sustainable, alternative energy source. The process, dubbed "artificial leaf technology," is...

A Strange New Life, Roaming the Beaches of Hollandmore

fascinating cross between robotics and kinetic sculpture. His ���strandbeests��� or ���beach animals��� use a form of...

CCS Student Anthony Reale Exemplifies American Innovation with his Str...more

Basking Shark swims through water to generate power. The project design combines elements of artistic design,...

Boundary-Pushing Architecture Blogger Ponders Landscapesmore

replace part of the global fossil fuel industry is hugely interesting to me���and it���s that type of biomimicry that...

On The Radarmore

to locate the invisible sun in foggy weather, in what the editorial calls ���a likely unintentional example of...

Reinventing America for a Bright Green Futuremore

business is good business, as the sustainability innovators like Gary Hirshberg at Stonyfield Farm, Janine Benyus at...

Polymer Could Create Self-Healing Aircraftmore

It���s an innovation that could drastically improve air safety, foster the development of lighter aircraft and bring...

Green light: Undercover activist, coral at risk and giant pandas retur...more

plastic or paper? ��� Hugh's fish fight takes Tesco to task ��� Ada Zanditon's innovation: sustainable biomimicry...

solidThinking Expands and Diversifies International Client Rostermore

With solidThinking Inspired(TM), users can apply morphogenesis(TM) form-generation technology - which draws on the...

Holly Harlan to exit as executive director of Entrepreneurs for Sustai...more

sustainable economy and have seen the results in green buildings, energy efficiency, renewable energy, local food,...

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