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Pistol Shrimp Weblog

"Upon journeying to Jackson Hole, WY, and back from a recent Education Summit hosted by the Biomimicry Institute, a university professor and student united to create an open-source blog full of biomimicry/biomimetic ideas for art, design, science and engineering. The focus is...

2010/10/21 - 16:17 architecture, biology, design, engineering, science, weblogs
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Center for Biologically Inspired Design at Georgia Tech

The Center for Biologically Inspired Design (CBID) at Georgia Tech is a research and development team translating Nature's ecosystems - her organisms, materials, methods and sensory behavior - into sustainable models...

2010/07/22 - 12:27 biosensors, biosystems, cognition, locomotion, materials
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Bulletproof Feathers: How Science Uses Nature's Secrets to Design Cutting-Edge Technology

Edited by Robert Allen (2010), The Ivy Press Limited, Lewes, UK.

Also available on...

2010/07/12 - 14:48 books, design, materials, principles, robotics
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Tom McKeag | GreenerDesign.com

Tom has started a regular weblog at GreenerDesign.  The link brings up a list of his posts.  To date, he has published:

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2009/10/08 - 17:46 weblogs
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Book / Article: Supply Side Sustainability - Connecting Thermodynamics to Biophysical and Social Sustainability

A summary of the excellent works of Allen, Tainter and Hoekstra on Thermodynamics, Sociology, Sustainability, Ecology and Management!  This is related to James Kay / Eric Schneider / Dorian Sagan / C.S. Holling's work on SOHOs (Self Organizing Holarchic Open systems). 

I note SlideShare...

2012/03/12 - 12:26 2nd Law, Allen, Ecology, Hoekstra, Management, Supply Side, sustainability, Tainter, thermodynamics
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Nature's Chemicals: The Natural Products that Shaped Our World

Author: Richard Firn (2010), Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK

Also available on...

2011/01/10 - 01:07 books, chemistry
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Life in the Undergrowth

Author: David Attenborough (2005), Princeton University Press, New Jersey, USA

This is the Companion Book to the Animal Planet Program (Spring 2006...

2011/01/10 - 01:43 books, insects, natural history
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What Shape is a Snowflake? Magical Numbers in Nature

Author: Ian Stewart (2001), Wiedenfeld & Nicolson, Lewes, UK

Amazon has a number of...

2011/01/08 - 19:18 books, patterns
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Biomimicry Oregon

A wide range of information and updates on biomimicry in general and the scene in Oregon.

2012/05/12 - 07:37
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Ignacio Urbina Polo’s Biomimicry Feed

Ignacio Urbina Polo is an industrial designer on the faculty of the Industrial Design Department at Pratt Institute (New York).  He has been teaching design with a...

2012/05/12 - 07:41
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