The Biomimicry Institute recently teamed up with Autodesk to launch AskNature.org, an incredible source of information for the growing community of professionals researching and applying the ...

When the Old Mutual insurance company hired architect Mick Pearce to build a combined office and retail building in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe, they threw in a challenge: Make the building comfortable ...

Our biomimicry challenge What Would You Ask Nature? drew dozens of real-world business problems submitted by companies from all over the world. We assigned three challenges to three firms and paired ...

Broach the subject of housekeeping with Janine Benyus, author of "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired By Nature," and you'll quickly be discussing how beetles keep the air pores in their exoskeletons from ...

Source: Greystone Books, with permission. Some years ago I learned about the fascinating field called biomimicry, basically "a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies found in nature to ...

As cities redevelop to provide greener, more efficient living and working environments for their residents, the greatest innovation happens in ecodistricts, small pockets of a city where planners can ...

Biomimicry is maybe the best idea you haven’t heard too much about. The term, for those unfamiliar, was coined by American inventor Otto Schmitt back in the 1970s, but it was author Janine Benyus 1997 ...

Animals and nature have been specializing, perfecting, and evolving for nearly 4 billion years, ensuring life thrived in almost every place on Earth. From revolutionizing healthcare to transforming ...

In our newest series, The Biomimicry Manual, we are thinking about design in a different way and asking ourselves “How would nature do it?”. Nature’s designs are tried and true, and there are a number ...

Designers and engineers have often looked to the environment and how Mother Nature has accomplished phenomenal design solutions for inspiration over the ages. Perhaps all that is new about this ...