In honor of the Portland area's recent heat wave, we'll look at a hot-climate house that mimics a snail for coolness, and the field of biomimicry; at research on the cocoon as a way to improve home ...

Janine Benyus helped bring the word biomimicry into 21st century vocabularies in her 1997 book on the subject. Her company, The Biomimicry Group, encourages biologists at the design table to ask: how ...

Windows that prevent bird collisions by mimicking the UV-reflective qualities of spider webs; a train that travels faster, uses less energy and makes less noise after it was redesigned to resemble a ...

Finalists in the Food Systems Design Challenge are creating cutting edge agriculture systems using some of the world’s oldest designs From lab-grown burgers to farms monitored by sensors and drones, ...

Previously only open to students, this year's challenge from the Biomimicry Institute is open to professionals for the first time. This year, entrants are tasked with tasked with developing a ...

A Leading Global Accelerator for Nature-Inspired Innovation Accepts Applications Until April 24, 2026 ...

MAUREEN CAVANAUGH (Host): I'm Maureen Cavanaugh. You're listening to These Days on KPBS. Nature is our oldest teacher, but sometimes we forget it still has some powerful tricks up its sleeve. The ...

Biomimicry is design inspired by nature. With 7 billion humans on Earth today — and demand for natural resources growing, while supplies remain fixed — people are looking for innovative ideas to help ...

March 6, 2024 /CSRwire/ – The Biomimicry Institute’s Youth Education team is excited to announce that they are a little over a month away from the Youth Design Challenge project submission deadline.

Biomimicry presents a raft of options to the fashion industry that can be used to achieve true sustainability, which has been found to be a little more complicated than once assumed, with the ...