Biomimicry: Janine Benyus
"Biomimicry...
is a new science that studies nature's models and then imitates or takes inspiration...to solve human problems, e.g., a solar cell inspired by a leaf.
After 3.8 billion years of evolution, nature has learned: What works. What is appropriate. What lasts.
...is a new way of viewing and valuing nature...an era based not on what we can extract from the natural world, but on what we can learn from it."
~Janine Benyus (1997)
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature.
"Classic examples include Velcro and sonar technology, and if Benyus has her way, future developments could (also) include protective clothing inspired by spider silk, or a business that runs like a redwood forest. Her role at the design table for carpet giant Inteface spawned the company's revolutionary FLOR tile system. Mimicking a forest floor, the carpet tile patterns blend like leaves and produce unprecedented environmental benefits for the industry, like minimal off-gassing and reduced waste by using recycled + renewable materials. Ultimately Benyus sees herslf as an educator..."
PLANET magazine editors, Spring '06, 30 Visionaries issue.
Did you know the FLORS were so cool?
BIOMIMICRY
this starts our round-up of great things that have inspired us so far this decade, which have appeared in numerous other blogs or print sources; finally re-capped here, just to remind or maybe inform anew.
is a new science that studies nature's models and then imitates or takes inspiration...to solve human problems, e.g., a solar cell inspired by a leaf.
After 3.8 billion years of evolution, nature has learned: What works. What is appropriate. What lasts.
...is a new way of viewing and valuing nature...an era based not on what we can extract from the natural world, but on what we can learn from it."
~Janine Benyus (1997)
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature.
"Classic examples include Velcro and sonar technology, and if Benyus has her way, future developments could (also) include protective clothing inspired by spider silk, or a business that runs like a redwood forest. Her role at the design table for carpet giant Inteface spawned the company's revolutionary FLOR tile system. Mimicking a forest floor, the carpet tile patterns blend like leaves and produce unprecedented environmental benefits for the industry, like minimal off-gassing and reduced waste by using recycled + renewable materials. Ultimately Benyus sees herslf as an educator..."
PLANET magazine editors, Spring '06, 30 Visionaries issue.
Did you know the FLORS were so cool?
BIOMIMICRY
this starts our round-up of great things that have inspired us so far this decade, which have appeared in numerous other blogs or print sources; finally re-capped here, just to remind or maybe inform anew.
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