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Better by Design - An Innovation Guide: Using Natural Design Solutions	by Fran Kurk and Curt McNamara explores the rationale behind looking to nature for designs, the value of design, and how 'design for the environment' can differentiate products while dramatically reducing their impact on the environment. It looks at how innovation can be applied to the entire...	2006/05/09 - 11:49	articles	5
Biomimicry in Industrial Design for Sustainability, An Integrated Teaching-and-Learning Method	2013/08/03 attachment uploaded again - 'magically' disappeared early on August 2nd As part of his 2009 doctoral thesis at the Graduate School of Design Research, Kobe Design University, Carlos...	2013/08/01 - 18:42	biomimicry, education, evaluation, industrial design, research, sustainability	4
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	4
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	4
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	4
Building Biomimicry Bridges - a toolbox for biomimicry practitioners (Stevens, et al.)	“Empowering learners to create a sustainable future,” this is the mission of Centre of Expertise Mission Zero at The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS). This book of biomimicry bridges is a toolkit to expand on the existing knowledge on biomimicry as a strategy to...	2024/03/07 - 20:48	biomimicry, systems	0
B3.8 Project Positive	Project Positive is a group of change agents dedicated to raising the bar on what acting sustainably means—driven by a sense of urgency to move beyond arbitrary reduction goals, to science-based targets and actions that are actually generous to the ecosystems, employees, and...	2023/11/08 - 13:44	Biomimicry 3.8, regeneration	0
B3.8 Life's Principles/Design Lens 6.1	Seven years after releasing Life’s Principles generation 6 (g6), we are excited to announce the release of g6.1—an enhancement to the existing principles that brings them to the next level of clarity and refinement. After an in-depth review by our team of biomimics, we were...	2023/11/08 - 13:47	Biomimicry 3.8, DesignLens, Life's Principles	0
Revisiting Nature’s “Unifying Patterns”: A Biological Appraisal	Abstract: Effective bioinspiration requires dialogue between designers and biologists, and this dialogue must be rooted in a shared scientific understanding of living systems. To support learning from “nature’s overarching design lessons” the Biomimicry Institute...	2023/09/05 - 14:00	bio-inspired design, biomimicry, principles	0
The Biomimicry Revolution: Learning from Nature how to Inhabit the Earth	The book is scheduled to be published March 14/2023. Let me know if you are interested in reviewing the book - I will try to get a review copy. I'm pleased to announce the publication of my book, The Biomimicry Revolution: Learning from Nature how to Inhabit the...	2022/09/10 - 18:19		0

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