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	WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Biomimicry 101
		Biomimicry, when well done, is not slavish imitation; it is inspiration--using the principles which nature has demonstrated to be successful design strategies.
		Janine Benyus, with her book "Biomimicry", was the first to propose that learning from nature would be the perfect tool for eco-design.
		Biomimicry can be achieved on different levels, according to benyus: form or function, the process level, and the system level.
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/003625.html (1294 words)

	Biomimicry
		Biomimicry is the science of studying functional systems in nature and implementing or borrowing these features for human technology.
		Biomimicry can aid in the solving of new design problems or in the optimization of current technologies.
		Since natural systems are highly optimized for their purposes/functionality due to the constraint of survivability, it makes sense for human engineers to seek design hints from pre-existing natural solutions.
	www.iscid.org /encyclopedia/Biomimicry (258 words)

	Urban Ecology Australia - Biomimicry
		Biomimicry is a new science that studies nature's best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems.
		Biomimicry is a science that studies nature’s models and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems.
		The cockroach leg is a prime candidate for biomimicry able to respond to changing environmental factors such as irregular terrain.
	www.urbanecology.org.au /topics/biomimicry.html (579 words)

	Biomimicry (kottke.org)
		One of my favorite talks at Poptech was Janice Benyus' presentation on biomimicry, or innovation inspired by nature:
		Biomimicry is a new science that studies nature's models and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems, e.g., a solar cell inspired by a leaf.
		Biomimicry is a new way of viewing and valuing nature.
	www.kottke.org /04/10/biomimicry (251 words)

	Future Positive : Front Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a new science that studies nature's best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems.
		This is the real news of biomimicry: After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.
		Biomimicry says: if it can't be found in nature, there is probably a good reason for its absence.
	futurepositive.synearth.net /2003/12/19 (3039 words)

	Wetware: Biomimicry Archives
		The Fastskin is an excellent example of successful biomimicry (see glossary), where someone has studied a good "design" in nature and mimicked it to create something useful, in this case a fabric with desirable qualities.
		Biomimicry is more common than people might think and affects things we use everyday.
		These are two examples of pure biomimicry, but obviously a lot of our design uses nature as a role model in some way.
	wetware.hjalli.com /cat_biomimicry.html (3309 words)

	Biomimicry
		Biomimicry (from bios, meaning ‘life,’ and mimesis, meaning ‘to imitate’) is a design principle that seeks sustainable solutions to human problems by consulting and emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies.
		Biomimicry still requires exploration, innovation and creativity, but by thinking like or working with a biologist we must learn to ask a different set of questions and look to nature for inspiration and learning opportunities.Ó Darcy Winslow GM of Environmental Business Opportunities, Nike Inc.
		Nature as Model Biomimicry is a new science that studies natureÕs models and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems, e.g., a solar cell inspired by a leaf.
	www.anticipation.info /texte/buckminster/www.bfi.org/Trimtab/spring01/biomimicry.htm (1175 words)

	The Science Creative Quarterly » BIOMIMICRY/BIMIMETICS: GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICAL EXAMPLES
		Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) refers to studying nature’s most successful developments and then imitating these designs and processes to solve human problems.
		These researchers have used biomimicry of the cockroach, one of nature’s most successful species, to design and build sprawl-legged robots that can move very quickly (up to five body-lengths per second)(Fig.
		As a result, one cannot be certain that a large scale model of insect flight would be able to interact with the air in the same way as a real insect to enable flight (this problem would also be worsened by the thin atmosphere on Mars).
	www.scq.ubc.ca /?p=321 (1496 words)

	North Gate News Online :: Biomimicry: Borrowing from science to help man
		"Biomimicry is conscious emulation of life's genius," the writer Janine M. Benyus told an overflow crowd at the Haas School of Business on Wednesday.
		Her book, "Biomimicry; Innovation Inspired by Nature," details scientists' efforts to solve modern problems by looking to the natural world for systems that work.
		Among other bug benefactors described by Benyus are insects whose eyes have led to the creation of complex wide angle photo lenses, and termites who are teaching scientists about converting cellulose to Ethanol, an inexpensive and less polluting gasoline substitute.
	journalism.berkeley.edu /ngno/stories/027854.html (481 words)

	Bionics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although almost all engineering could be said to be a form of biomimicry, the modern origins of this field are usually attributed to Buckminster Fuller and its later codification as a field of study to Janine Benyus.
		Advocates, especially in the anti-globalization movement, argue that the mating-like processes of standardization, financing and marketing, are already examples of runaway evolution - rendering a system that appeals to the consumer but which is inefficient at use of energy and raw materials.
		Biomimicry is also the second principle of Natural Capitalism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biomimicry (1664 words)

	Biomimicry Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Biomimicry Institute is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to naturalize biomimicry in the culture by promoting the transfer of ideas, designs, and strategies from biology to sustainable human systems design.
		Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis,meaning to imitate) is a new science that studies nature's best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems.
		The mission of the Biomimicry Institute is to naturalize biomimicry in the culture by promoting the transfer of ideas, designs, and strategies from biology to sustainable human systems design.
	www.biomimicry.net /institute.html (1524 words)

	Biomimicry: Solutions Hidden in Plain Sight
		Biomimicry offers solutions hidden in plain sight for many of the modern world's environmental problems.
		Biomimicry takes advantage of nature's wisdom gleaned from 3.8 billion years of evolution to determine what works, what is appropriate and what lasts.
		Biomimicry comes naturally Human beings have been learning from nature and using nature as a model for a very long time.
	www.via3.net /pooled/articles/BF_DOCART/view.asp?Q=BF_DOCART_139580 (1147 words)

	IW Books - Biomimicry
		If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming the way we live on earth, literally enabling us to use the known world to create a New World.
		Biomimicry is the quest for innovation inspired by nature.
		In Biomimicry, science writer Janine M. Benyus names and explains this phenomenon that has been unfolding in all the science disciplines.
	www.innovationwatch.com /books/bks_0688136915.htm (375 words)

	Biomimicry: Taking on Nature's Way Deborah Rich / SF Chronicle 27jul02
		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 clogging with dirt and how a snake's skin stays clean and moist even while the snake slithers through the dust.
		Benyus is a leading advocate of biomimicry, a science and thought process based on the belief that humans have much to learn from nonhuman organisms, especially those that have existed far longer than we have.
		While those of us who are not biologists may not come up with immediate solutions when faced with holes in our rosebuds or mold in our showers, embracing the mind-set of biomimicry will help us start asking the right questions of each other and of companies interested in our business.
	www.mindfully.org /Sustainability/Biomimicry-Natures-Way27jul02.htm (1855 words)

	biomimicry - Ask.com Web Search
		Biomimicry is a new science that studies nature's models and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human...
		"Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a new science that studies nature's best ideas and then...
		The program is based on Janine Benyus book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature and is presented by her.
	search.ask.com /web?q=biomimicry (273 words)

	Biomimicry - a new science
		More on biomimicry: Imagine if you could harness energy like a leaf, stick to surfaces like a gecko, filter water like a marsh or make ceramics like an abalone.
		Biomimicry is a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by consulting and emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies — it encourages us to view nature not as a source of goods, but as a mentor, a source of wisdom.
		In Biomimicry, she has synthesized work done by scientists, engineers and designers who are seeking sustainable solutions by mimicking nature's designs and processes.
	www.unisa.edu.au /hawkecentre/events/2006events/Biomimicry.asp (445 words)

	Biomimicry
		Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.
		Biomimicry has the earmarks of a successful meme, that is, an idea that will spread like an adaptive gene throughout our culture.
		It's nearly midnight, and the ball is dropping--a wrecking ball aimed at the Eiffel Tower of squirming, flapping, pirouetting life.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/b/benyus-biomimicry.html (3246 words)

	Provocations
		Other types of biomimicry involve similar types of genetic modifications and it is these cases that raise the most serious moral concerns.
		It can be countered that humans already use animals as living factories (harvesting their milk and eggs, for example) and that animals have been modified by selective breeding for centuries.
		While the morality of the general exploitation of animals cannot be settled here, it does seem that biomimicry involving genetic modifications involves a moral step beyond existing practices of animal exploitation.
	www.philosophers.co.uk /cafe/provocations2.htm (780 words)

	Sustainable Sarasota: Biomimicry: Design Inspired by Nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is the message of biomimicry, a new school of thought that reinstates nature as the ultimate teacher.
		Bios, the Greek term for life and mimesis, meaning to imitate, combine to form biomimicry: the concept of drawing creative inspiration from nature to develop solutions to human problems.
		Essentially, biomimicry elevates our role from protectors of the planet to devout students of nature.
	www.sustainablesarasota.com /Biomimicry.aspx (368 words)

	Janine Benyus: The Thought Leader Interview
		The biomimicry pioneer is teaching executives that the solutions to their most challenging problems lie in nature.
		Benyus was the first to identify the nascent discipline, which she dubbed “biomimicry” and galvanized with her groundbreaking 1997 book of the same name.
		“Biomimicry has the earmarks of a successful meme; that is, an idea that will spread like an adaptive gene throughout our culture,” she says.
	www.strategy-business.com /press/article/06310?gko=5d3b0-1876-18061726 (556 words)

	Powell's Books - Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M Benyus
		I call their quest "biomimicry — the conscious emulation of life's genius.
		Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature – taking advantage of evolution’s 3.8 billion years of R&D since the first bacteria.
		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.
	www.powells.com /biblio/1-0060533226-0 (1265 words)

	Biomimicry curricula
		Biomimicry (also biomimickry) is the conscious copying of examples and mechanisms from natural organisms and ecologies.
		Biomimicry is an excellent tool to use for problem solving and critical thinking.
		For example: One could look at the fact that desert plants store water and decide that in the building on homes in the desert it would be a good idea to have a water storage system.
	www.biomimicry.info (364 words)

	GBN: Biomimicry, Not Biotechnology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Biomimicry refers to the science that seeks to mimic nature rather than manipulate it.
		Biomimicry advocates would study how the spider breaks down raw material, like bugs, at low body temperatures to form a strong new material with almost no waste, with the objective of replicating that same process in a factory.
		She is also looking forward to a not-so-distant future in which biomimicry is common knowledge—and commonly practiced.
	www.gbn.com /ArticleDisplayServlet.srv?aid=145 (402 words)

	Sustainability News
		The science writer is talking about the reaction to her seventh book, Biomimicry.
		Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature was the answer to her questions and, since its publication, Benyus has spent much of her time lecturing and consulting.
		"A small group of industry leaders see biomimicry as part of the mosaic of tools that people are looking for to increase sustainability.
	www.sustreport.org /news/edge_mimic.html (904 words)

	biomimicry news articles
		The researchers say the technology, which uses microhairs "reminiscent of tiny mushrooms", could someday allow robots to climb vertical glass walls and refrigerator magnets to be replaced by non-magnetic objects.
		Inspired by the remarkable hairs that allow geckos to hang single-toed from sheer walls and scamper along ceilings, a team of researchers led by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, has created an array of synthetic micro-fibers that uses very high friction to support loads on smooth surfaces.
		Biomimicry is being used to fight computer viruses.
	www.mongabay.com /news-index/biomimicry1.html (1533 words)

	Biomimicry database launched to support biomimetrics discipline - The Bumble Bee
		The new scientific discipline of biomimicry (also known as biomimetrics) is gaining a lot of attention.
		The relationship between bioteaming and biomimetrics is discussed further in Virtual teams, biomimicry and biomimetrics - Learning from mother nature's designs becomes scientific mainstream.
		One of the key elements of this emerging discipline is the creation of a Biomimicry Database – an alpha-prototype of which is available here as a project of Rocky Mountain Institute and the Biomimicry Guild.
	www.bioteams.com /2006/02/16/biomimicry_database_launched.html (619 words)

	Resource: Biomimicry
		Biomimicry is a new science that studies nature's models and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems.
		Building on this appreciation is biomimicry, an old way of life understood by indigenous peoples and a new approach that:
		Janine Benyus, author of the book "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature," is a speaker and consultant to business and others on remarkable new biomimic industrial products and processes which use chemistry performed in room-temperature water, local raw materials, sunlight, and no toxic chemicals.
	www.nextstep.state.mn.us /res_detail.cfm?id=1058 (352 words)

	Biomimicry: Secrets Hiding in Plain Sight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		So imagine my delight to come across Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (William Morrow and Company, NY), a new book by science writer Janine M. Benyus, echoing this theme, and others I explored in a column eighteen months ago (NBL 5.04, Ecomimesis: Copying ecosystems for fun and profit;).
		Biomimicry explores the quietly gathering trend toward what Benyus calls "doing it nature's way," -- using nature as model, or inspiration, for design to solve human problems; as measure of what works, what's appropriate, and what lasts; and as mentor, focusing us on what we can learn from nature, rather than extract from it.
		The exciting thing about Biomimicry is that it is chock full of practitioners, not mere theorists -- people putting these ideas into practice in a broad range of fields.
	www.natlogic.com /resources/nbl/v06/n22.html (864 words)

	Care2 Connect - Learning from Nature through Biomimicry
		It used to be that the house of the future was thought to involve robots, and lots of them, doing all the tedious work, Jetsons-style.
		But maybe we don’t need clanking metal slaves; the emerging field of biomimicry is more eco-friendly—and smarter—than an army of tin machines.
		Biomimicry is the concept that we can look at natural systems to solve such problems as keeping cool in the heat, recycling toxic wastes or self cleaning.
	www.care2.com /c2c/share/detail/58687 (1358 words)

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