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	Janine Benyus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Janine M. Benyus is a (A particular branch of scientific knowledge) science writer and lecturer on environmental matters.
		Benyus is a graduate of (additional info and facts about Rutgers University) Rutgers University and lives in Stevensville, (A state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border) Montana.
		In this book she propounds her basic thesis that human beings should imitate nature in their designs and solutions to problems.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/janine_benyus.htm (87 words)

	Janine Benyus on The Paula Gordon Show
		Benyus is confident that the result may well be more than a chance to squeeze through what she sees as a looming evolutionary knothole.
		Benyus expresses her hope for the human species and the world that could come out of significant change if we choose to learn from the millions of other species and systems of which we are a part.
		Benyus at the dedication of Oberlin College's extraordinary Lewis Center for Environmental Sciences, the brainchild of the renowned educator and environmental leader, David Orr.
	paulagordon.com /shows/benyus (1017 words)

	Permaculture Association (Britain) - Permaculture Course at the Schumacher College
		Janine Benyus will introduce the new field of biomimicry, a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by studying and then emulating nature's time-tested strategies.
		Janine Benyus is a life sciences writer and author of six books, including her latest--Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired By Nature.
		Janine¹s next book will explore home as habitat, taking a biological look at human habitat selection, nest building, and "What makes us feel at home?" Her natural habitat is Montana¹s Bitterroot Valley, where she¹s passionate about protecting wildlands and promoting smart growth (that is, when she¹s not sculling, backpacking, or skate skiing).
	www.permaculture.org.uk /mm.asp?nolinks=y&mmfile=news_schumacher (1547 words)

	IT Conversations: Janine Benyus - Biomimicry
		Janine Benyus is a life sciences writer and author of six books, including her latest -- Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature.
		Janine now writes popular books in the life sciences, consults with sustainable business leaders and talks about the genius that surrounds us while living in her natural habitat--the northern Rockies.
		Benyus' degree is in natural resource management and all her previous work has been with wildlife.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail241.html (544 words)

	Benyus - Seminars - Events - Baskin School of Engineering, UCSC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Janine Benyus, the author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, will describe what's new in the field, describe deep patterns of biological design, and engage us in a discussion of what's possible when we invite nature to the design table.
		Janine Benyus is a natural sciences writer and author of six books, including her latest--Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature.
		Janine's next book will explore home as habitat, taking a biological look at human habitat selection, nest building, and "What makes us feel at home?" Her natural habitat is Montana's Bitterroot Valley, where she's passionate about protecting wildlands and promoting smart settlement patterns (that is, when she's not sculling, backpacking, and skate skiing).
	www.cse.ucsc.edu /events/seminars/benyus.html?print (601 words)

	The Remarkable Janine Benyus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		She is Janine Benyus, a self-proclaimed "nature nerd" who grew up in New Jersey at the edge of suburbia next to a wooded ravine with a creek.
		Benyus believes that biomimicry "has the earmarks of a successful meme, that is, an idea that will spread like an adaptive gene throughout our culture." The scientist's awe of the forces of life, bordering on reverence, drives this evolution.
		Benyus says it brings tears to her eyes just to think about the phenomenal process whereby sunlight, carbon dioxide and water are combined within us and other mammals to produce waste products that plants then use to make sugar and water.
	www.isdesignet.com /Magazine/EDJ_'01/cover.html (2414 words)

	East Michigan Environmental Action Council - Book Review
		In her book, Biomimicry, science writer Janine Benyus explores spider silk and other products of nature and finds innovations that could be adapted to address the most urgent of human problems.
		Benyus observes that 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 fifteen minutes ago and all of recorded human history blinked by during the last 60 seconds.
		Benyus notes that we flew for the first time in 1903 and by 1914 were dropping bombs.
	www.emeac.org /old-2003-08-16/Books.html (834 words)

	Learning from Sharks and Spiders: The Hand of Nature in Innovation - Knowledge@Wharton
		In the area of materials science, said Benyus, the usual method is to "heat, beat and treat." "Normally we take a bulk material and carve it down to what we want," she said.
		According to Benyus, biomimicry is especially useful for designing agricultural systems, "Our system of agriculture is largely one of annual monoculture; we plant one species for miles.
		Benyus noted that biomimicry was fast becoming a necessity.
	knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu /index.cfm?fa=viewfeature&id=144 (741 words)

	Biomimicry: Taking on Nature's Way Deborah Rich / SF Chronicle 27jul02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
		Benyus suggested that building designers consider that birds pant and cool themselves by oscillating a pouch in their chests at an easily maintained resonant frequency.
	www.mindfully.org /Sustainability/Biomimicry-Natures-Way27jul02.htm (1855 words)

	conferences
		Janine Benyus is a natural sciences write, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including her latest Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature.
		Janine has cultivated a deep knowledge of the natural world, beginning with direct observation in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, continuing in habitats from Maine to West Virginia where she worked as a backcountry guide, now, in her home in the wilds of Montana.
		Janine is currently a Google for Nature’s Solutions- a public database literature organized by design function.
	www.idec.org /conferences/keynote2.html (350 words)

	Eden Project - Eden news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Science writer Janine M. Benyus introduces a revolutionary field of science that is studying nature’s best ideas and then imitating these designs and processes to solve human problems.
		Benyus believes it could be achieved by systematically interviewing the Earth’s flora and fauna, providing engineers with the “specs” from biology’s best ideas.
		Janine offers a radical alternative to today’s industrial model of progress — an elegant survival strategy drawn from a better understanding of those natural systems on which we are still totally dependent.
	www.edenproject.com /484_5069.htm (959 words)

	Biomimicry Innovation Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The science that Ms Benyus describes is fascinating - research into edible perennial grasses, improved solar cell technology, the ongoing study of pharmacologically useful plants and so on.
		This is most obviously demonstrated by her attempt to make a distinction, entirely fallacious, between good "biomimicry" (respectful of Nature, holistic, fuzzy, warm, spiritually superior) and evil "biotechnology", such as genetic manipulation (too digital, hard-edged and arrogant - though why, she never bothers to explain, beyond the fact that it makes her feel uneasy.
		Though there are certainly arguments to be made for care in the use of genetic modification technology, Ms Benyus does not trouble to make them, apparently considering that her personal discomfort is a sufficient reason to condemn it.
	www.book-summary-review.com /Biomimicry-0060533226.htm (1242 words)

	July/August 2001 Brave New Nature - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club
		Benyus interviewed dozens of scientists who are following nature's example to create sustainable innovations in agriculture, medicine, and manufacturing.
		In the following adaptation from her book, Benyus introduces us to Christopher Viney, now a professor of materials chemistry at Scotland's Heriot-Watt University, who is studying the way spiders make their incredibly strong silk for its possible applications in manufacturing.
		It's a steamy 80 degrees in Christopher Viney's lab, in deference to Tiny, a six-inch-long golden orb-weaver spider (Nephila clavipes),who is now flipped on her back, dining on crickets while being silked.
	sierraclub.org /sierra/200107/benyus.asp (1097 words)

	The Net Net: ReadMe
		Janine Benyus is a science writer whose primary published interest has been wildlife.
		Benyus interviewed people who love their work, and she is clearly caught up in their enthusiasm as they tell her about the research that most excites them.
		It even includes the requisite example of the way at least one business, trying to replicate a waterproof adhesive used by mussels, got the right general idea but failed to make progress -- because it was too mired in the "old way" of researching new compounds.
	www.thenetnet.com /readme/janine.html (470 words)

	Speaker's Series - Leadership through sustainable innovation
		Janine Benyus, author of Biomimicry, will share lessons learned from the oldest and wisest teacher on the planet – nature itself.
		Benyus has informed and inspired numerous businesses and individuals with her observations.
		Benyus will provide lessons for Whistler homes and businesses – lessons that not only help to solve our challenges, but do so in a manner that protects our future.
	www.whistleritsournature.ca /speakersseries/january.html (156 words)

	Missoulian: Science author to speak on modeling nature
		One of her favorite examples is the genius of a particular type of African termite, which builds channels and chimneys throughout its mound in order to maintain a constant temperature of 87 degrees, regardless of conditions.
		When the book was published in 1997, it caused a ripple around the world because Benyus made it easy for everyday readers to understand the sophisticated work of leading-edge scientists who study nature's models to solve human problems.
		In the wake of the book's publication, Benyus became the subject of hundreds of articles, prompting one piece titled, "The Remarkable Janine Benyus." She also hit the guest speaker tour, which included international audiences, high school students, and businesses such as Nike, Procter & Gamble and Novell.
	www.missoulian.com /articles/2003/07/10/news/local/news04.txt (728 words)

	Main Hall to Main St. \| The University of Montana
		Prominent Montana writers Patricia Goedicke and Janine Benyus will be honored for their contributions to literature during the Friends of the Mansfield Library 40th Annual Spring Banquet on Wednesday, April 16.
		Janine Benyus of Stevensville will receive the Lud Browman Award, which honors outstanding contributions to scientific writing.
		Benyus, who lectures at UM, said she works as a "biologist at the design table," helping designers, engineers and business leaders learn from life's genius.
	www.umt.edu /urelations/mainhall/403/library.htm (384 words)

	Press Release: A public lecture by Janine Benyus on the emerging science of biomimicry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Press Release: A public lecture by Janine Benyus on the emerging science of biomimicry
		Press Release: With its partners, the Canadian Museum of Nature presents a public lecture by Janine Benyus on the emerging science of biomimicry.
		Janine Benyus lectures widely on science topics and is the author of four books in the life sciences area, including Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature and Beastly Behaviours: A Watcher's Guide to How Animals Act and Why.
	www.nature.ca /museum/press/pr00_biomim_e.cfm (260 words)

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		Janine Benyus is author of the book Biomimicry a book about redesigning human systems to immitate nature and become more sustainable.
		Janine M. Benyus is a graduate of Rutgers University with degrees in forestry and writing.
		In Biomimicry, Benyus introduces a group of scientists who are already discovering nature-based innovations that will change the way we grow food, make materials, harness energy, heal ourselves, store information, and conduct business.
	www.ckua.org /program/episResults.cfm?ID=5023 (685 words)

	Sarasota County Government: Latest News - County co-sponsors ‘Biomimicry’ lecture Monday at the Mote1 of 1 Total(1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		” lecture series, author and Biomimcry Guild member, Janine Benyus will discuss her latest book, “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature.” The event is free for Mote members and $7 for non-members.
		Benyus' work explores the emerging science that seeks sustainable solutions by mimicking nature's designs and processes to solve human problems.
		Benyus’ other books include an animal behavior guide entitled “Beastly Behaviors” and three ecosystem-first field guides: “The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Western U.S.,” “The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern U.S,.” and “Northwoods Wildlife: A Watcher's Guide to Habitats.” She is a graduate of Rutgers University in New Jersey.
	www.co.sarasota.fl.us /latestNews/NewsDetail.aspx?C1ACC692B2=A5989D7A&E7DCD7AE=A3 (335 words)

	KQED \| Forum: Janine Benyus
		Michael Krasny talks to science writer Janine Benyus about biomimicry, a new science that studies nature's models and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems.
		Benyus is a natural science writer and her latest book is "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature."
		Janine Benyus, a natural science writer and her latest book is "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature."
	www.kqed.org /epArchive/R301231000 (97 words)

	ExhibitorInfo \| IIDEX/NeoCon Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Janine Benyus Thursday, Sept. 19, 5 - 6 p.m.
		Janine Benyus believes that nature is the model we should look to.
		In her recent book, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, life sciences writer Janine Benyus describes an emerging science that seeks sustainable solutions by imitating natureâs designs and processes.
	www.merchandisemart.com /exhibitorinfo/iidex/operations/Special_Events.cfm (1037 words)

	Janine M. Benyus - Biomimicry - 0060533226 - Books at BookPicker.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Biomimicry is the quest for innovation inspired by nature.
		Their findings are revolutionizing how we invent, compute, heal ourselves, harness energy, repair the environment, conduct business, and feed the world.
		In Biomimicry, science writer Janine M. Benyus names and explains this phenomenon that has been unfolding in all the science disciplines.
	bookpicker.com /book/0060533226/Biomimicry.html (91 words)

	Amazon.com: Biomimicry : Innovation Inspired By Nature: Books: Janine M. Benyus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Science writer Benyus (Beastly Behaviors, LJ 9/1/92) uses these subjects and others to demonstrate how nature's solutions to situations have been the creative jumping-off points for individuals seeking solutions, developing, or simply revitalizing processes or products.
		Here, Benyus proposes "ten lessons" that an ecologically astute company, culture, or economy could practice to promote a healthier existence for us all.
		The colors of Benyus, a splendid Stevensville, Mont., science writer with a grasp of several sciences, contain far more shades of green than of chrome.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688136915?v=glance (3067 words)

	What's New at CIELAP
		"‘Biomimicry’ is the word coined for the new kind of science espoused by Janine M. Benyus, a Montana writer and science observer trained in forestry and inspired by the new breed of scientists and engineers who are unafraid to upset old paradigms.
		As Benyus tells us, there is no reason why we cannot develop a technology with far greater complexity and sophistication than anything we have yet invented that also supports a healthier, happier future for both humans and nature.
		It may be Janine's careful respect for the wonders of both science and nature that makes her observations so persuasive."
	www.cielap.org /whatsnew/events/biomimicry.html (1545 words)

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