Leaders in the Global Biomimicry Movement
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Biomimicry in Action
Read all about innovations that have been inspired by nature.
Videos
From Biomimesis to Bioinspiration: What’s the Benefit for Solar Energy Conversion Applications? American Chemical Society – March 2, 2011
TED: Nicholas Sykes: Biomimicry 2.0 – February 11, 2011
NOVA: Making Stuff: Smarter - Aired February 9, 2011, on PBS
Biomimicry and Economics – December 16, 2010
TED: Michael Pawlyn: Using nature’s genius in architecture - Filmed November 2010
Biomimicry is Key to the Quest for Solar Energy - October 15, 2009
TED: Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that Repairs Itself - Filmed July 2009
TED: Robert Full – “Learning from the Gecko’s Tail” Filmed February 2009
Innovators Epiode 3: “Designed by Nature” segment featuring the San Diego Zoo
Janine Benyus: The Thought Leader Interview. Strategy+business, Amy Bernstein. Autumn 2006.
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature: Janine Benyus audio - July 9, 2006
TED: Janine Benyus “Biomimicry in Action” Filmed July 2009
TED Talk: 12 sustainable design ideas from nature. Janine Benyus, Filmed February 2005 at the TED Conference.
TED: “Janine Benyus shares nature’s designs” Filmed February 2005
TED: Robert Full on animal movement – Filmed February 2005
Links
Center for Biologicaly Inspired Design. Bioinspired!
“Dedicated to furthering the practice of bio-inspired design.”
BiomimicryNEO an E4S Action Network.
“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.”
The Biomimicry Group
“The Biomimicry Group and our sister organizations—
The Biomimicry Institute and the Biomimicry Guild—promote 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.”
AskNature
“The online inspiration source for the biomimicry community”
Biomimicry News
“Biomimicry news and research”
Biomimicry Europa
“We are a non-profit international association established in Brussels in 2006, by women and men from a variety of backgounds, sharing the consciousness of the limits of our current mode of development and its impact on the environment, particularly with respect to climate.”
Biomimetics: Biologically-Inspired Technologies
Biomimetic research at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Nondestructiove Evaluation and Advanced Actuators Technologies Lab
Biological Adhesives
“From Biology to Biomimetics”
Biomimetic Architecture
“Biomimetics and Architecture: Images and Ideas”