TEDTalks
Janine Benyus TEDGlobal 2009
Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you’ll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Here she reveals dozens of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular results.
Janine Benyus TEDTalk Feb 2005
In this inspiring talk about developments in biomimicry, Janine Benyus provides heartening examples of ways in which nature is already influencing the products and systems we build.
Michael Palwyn’s TED Talk on Biomimicry for Architecture: How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. At TEDSalon in London, Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society: radical resource efficiency, closed loops, and drawing energy from the sun.
TEDxCape Town biomimicry & water. Claire Janisch presents some biomimicry inspiration relating to the genius of water.
AskNature
Ask Nature
Imagine 3.8 billion years of design brilliance available for free, at the moment of creation, to any sustainability innovator in the world. Imagine nature’s most elegant ideas organized by design and engineering function, so you can enter “filter salt from water” and see how mangroves, penguins, and shorebirds desalinate without fossil fuels. Now imagine you can meet the people who have studied these organisms, and together you can create the next great bio-inspired solution. That’s the idea behind AskNature, the online inspiration source for the biomimicry community.
TheBiomimicryGroup
Biomimicry Professional Pathways
Launching in March 2011, The Biomimicry Group’s Professional Pathways will be the most comprehensive and innovative biomimicry educational offering in the world. These courses will fundamentally transform the way you operate in the world. Whether you just want to take an eLearning course or workshop, or achieve professional level credentialing, there is an entry point for every budget, schedule, and location. Start with one of the program’s building blocks and discover where biomimicry will take you.
The Biomimicry Institute
The Biomimicry Institute is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the study and imitation of nature’s remarkably efficient designs, bringing together scientists, engineers, architects and innovators who can use those models to create sustainable technologies. The Biomimicry Institute offers short-term workshops and two-year certificate courses in biomimicry for professionals, and helps to develop and share biomimicry-related curricula used in a range of educational venues, from classrooms to universities, as well as in non-formal settings such as zoos and museums. The Biomimicry Institute does not conduct its own research; rather, it serves as a clearinghouse and resource for those who do.
The Biomimicry Guild
The innovation consultancy for bio-inspired design. The Biomimicry Guild is the only innovation company in the world to use a deep knowledge of biological adaptations to help designers, engineers, architects, and business leaders solve design and engineering challenges sustainably.
BiomimicryResources
Biomimicry News
Biomimicry News archives engineering solutions gleaned from similar systems developed in nature.
Scoop It
Biomimicry Feedpage: Design and engineering solutions from nature
Biomimicry Info for Educators
Biomimicry Info provides information and ideas about biomimicry to be used by educators
15 Coolest Cases of Biomimicry
The 15 coolest cases of biomimicry from brainz.org
Biomimicry on Treehugger
Regular biomimicry interesting news on TreeHugger
FastCompany Case Studies
Making cement the way coral does
Mimicking squid skin to create perfect instant comouflage
Using nature’s spiral to improve industrial design
RegionalNetworks
Biomimicry Europa
A non-profit international association established in Brussels in 2006, by women and men from a variety of backgrounds, sharing the consciousness of the limits of our current mode of development and its impact on the environment, particularly with respect to climate. Their mission is to promote biomimicry in Europe.
Biomimicry NL
biomimicryNL is a Netherlands-based not for profit organization and is in progress of creating a strategic partnership with the Biomimicry Institute and Biomimicry Guild. They are based in the International Center for Sustainable Excellence in Eindhoven.
Biomimicry Colombia
Biomimicry network based in Bogota Columbia.
Biomimicry North East Ohio
Northeast Ohio Biomimicry Action Network is a growing network of regional business and organizational leaders from all sectors of the economy interested in putting biomimicry to work at every design table.
Biomimicry Texas
BiomimicryTX promotes learning from and then emulating natural forms, processes, and ecosystems to create more sustainable and healthier human technologies and designs. Their mission to create a network for companies, research, universities, K-12, and NGO’s to learn from each other, create synergies, be inspired and stimulate biomimicry education and enterprise.
Biomimicry Oregon
Biomimicry Oregon fosters sustainable innovation by inspiring, educating, and connecting people from all sectors to put nature’s genius to work in every organization in Oregon.
Biomimicry South Africa
