In honor of the Portland area's recent heat wave, we'll look at a hot-climate house that mimics a snail for coolness, and the field of biomimicry; at research on the cocoon as a way to improve home ...

Richard Graves, vice president of community for the U.S. Green Building Council, said he was skeptical at first that having IDEO take a biomimetic approach to redesigning their organizational ...

Janine Benyus helped bring the word biomimicry into 21st century vocabularies in her 1997 book on the subject. Her company, The Biomimicry Group, encourages biologists at the design table to ask: how ...

The annual competition from the Biomimicry Insititute is spreading its wings: The Biomimicry Global Design Challenge (BGDC) is expanding to include the Living Product Prize. Entrants vying for the ...

Biomimicry, a discipline that draws inspiration from nature to create solutions to real world problems, is relatively new as an academic study path. In an effort to lead the way, Arizona State ...

Designers and engineers have often looked to the environment and how Mother Nature has accomplished phenomenal design solutions for inspiration over the ages. Perhaps all that is new about this ...

“We always learn about nature, but we are rarely taught to learn from nature.” – Jess Berliner Biomimicry encompasses so many different fields of design, manufacture and communication, that it can’t ...

How to improve food systems by looking to nature for design solutions – this was the brief given to entrants in the Biomimicry Institute’s Global Design Challenge, which announced its finalists this ...

Zoom in to the inner world of your veins, arteries and capillaries, and you'll find an engineering marvel: the red blood cell. Disc-shaped and flexible, millions of these oxygen transporters can be ...

Previously only open to students, this year's challenge from the Biomimicry Institute is open to professionals for the first time. This year, entrants are tasked with tasked with developing a ...