Biomimicry is the practice of studying and emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies to solve human problems.

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 ...

A wind turbine designed to incorporate the bumps on a whale's tale. A fast-growing rice that needs half the normal amount of water to grow, thanks to observation of a hot-spring fungi. A video display ...

Michael Pawlyn believes in biomimicry -- the study of natural structures and processes in order to help solve man-made problems. The architect has founded his own architectural firm based on its ...

Nature is the planet’s most creative, and by default, greenest designer, and has inspired humankind to come up with better solutions since the dawn of time. “So much has changed in the past few ...

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