Biomimicry

I like the idea of trying to spot the places where the abilities we need are already ready-evolved in the natural world, in another species. How might we collaborate to acquire that ability instantly, or almost instantly? Many species that live on this planet have survived and sustained themselves for far, far longer than we have. What are they doi... See more

To discover the essence of generous design, she suggests that we take nature as our model, measure and mentor. With nature as model, we can study and mimic life’s cyclical processes of take and give, death and renewal, in which one creature’s waste becomes another’s food. As measure, nature sets the ecological standard by which to judge the sustain

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