Through the Introduction to Biomimicry: Foundational Course, you’ll quickly discover that biomimicry is more than just looking at the shape of a flower or dragonfly and becoming newly inspired.
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What's biomimicry all about? Read the primer from author and Biomimicry 3.8 co-founder Janine Benyus.
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Author and Biomimicry 3.8 co-founder Janine Benyus discusses her seminal book, "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature."
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Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature – taking advantage of evolution’s 3.8 billion years of R&D since the first bacteria.
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The Land Institute has been working successfully to revolutionize the conceptual foundations of modern agriculture by using natural prairies as a model
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An office complex in Harare, Zimbabwe, has an air conditioning system modeled on the self-cooling mounds of Macrotermes michaelseni, termites that maintain the temperature inside their nest to within one degree, day and night.
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Studying the way human lungs work is inspiring new technologies that remove carbon dioxide from sources like flue stacks, preventing this greenhouse gas from reaching our atmosphere and warming the planet.
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Wind tunnel tests of model humpback fins with and without tubercles have demonstrated the aerodynamic improvements tubercles make, such as an 8% improvement in lift and 32% reduction in drag.
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Nature moves water and air using a logarithmic or exponentially growing spiral, as commonly seen in seashells.
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Engineers have incorporated these and other lessons learned from how trees and bones optimize their strength and minimize their use of materials into software design programs, such as Claus Matteck's “Soft Kill Option” software, which are revolutionizing industrial design.
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