Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature Janine M. Benyus ebook
Format: pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Page: 320
ISBN: 9780060533229
If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by the last sixty seconds. She is a renowned biologist and the founder of The Biomimicry Institute. Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine Benyus; Dancing with Systems by Donella Meadows; Additional short articles, resources, and websites as assigned. Biomimicry: innovative solutions inspired by nature . Biomimicry, Innovation Inspired by Nature, Janine M. She began exploring how products, processes, and whole organizations could better mimic working mechanisms in the natural world. This includes hands-on experience with the deep patterns of the way life works, a biomimicry design challenge, the essential elements of biomimicry, and the biomimicry thinking design approach. To illustrate the history and theory of biomimicry she discusses case studies from her book, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Biomimicry is a revolutionary new science that analyzes nature's best ideas — spider silk and prairie grass, seashells and brain cells — and adapts them for human use. More recently in 1997 Janine Benyus coined the term biomimicry in her book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry as a discipline promotes learning from and then emulating nature to create more sustainable and healthier human technologies, designs and system strategies. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature – taking advantage of evolution's 3.8 billion years of R&D since the first bacteria. This is a very personal interview that is evocative, sensitive and warm. But that doesn't mean we can't cherry-pick and copy some of nature's best designs.