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  • noun biomimetics

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  • "It is important to look at nature - after all, it has had 3.8 billion years to come up with ideas," says Janine Benyus, a natural history writer who coined the term "biomimicry" in 1998.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Several months ago I challenged Pepsi Bottling Group here to rethink carbonated and non-carbonated beverage bottling and recommended Janine Benyus who coined the term biomimicry - using nature's design for innovation.

    21st Century Organization 2009

  • One of the most exciting trends in truly revolutionary design is called biomimicry, in which design solutions are inspired by nature.

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • One of the most exciting trends in truly revolutionary design is called biomimicry, in which design solutions are inspired by nature.

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • One of the most exciting trends in truly revolutionary design is called biomimicry, in which design solutions are inspired by nature.

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • One of the most exciting trends in truly revolutionary design is called biomimicry, in which design solutions are inspired by nature.

    THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010

  • PaulaGordon. com, To whet your appetite, among them are Rocky Mountain Institute's founder/chief scientist Amory Lovins; pioneering environmental educator David Orr at "America's #1 Coolest School" (Sierra Club's designation for Oberlin College); Interface, Inc. 's visionary industrialist/founder Ray C. Anderson; "biomimicry" - maven Janine Benyus; environmental superheroes Paul Hawken and David Suzuki, and many more.

    Paula Gordon: When You Pray, Move Your Feet 2008

  • Famvir sale, Mirasol technology is based on what's known as 'biomimicry' -- that is, it mimics features found in nature to display the colours you see, buy famvir online.

    Mobile Industry Review 2010

  • The field, known as biomimicry, brings together biologists, engineers, and designers in an attempt to solve some of the world's thorniest manufacturing challenges.

    Nature Is the Model Factory 2010

  • On the far side of Beijing, the historic city of Langfang, whose population is near 800,000, has hired the architects of international firm HOK and San Francisco's CW Group to retrofit it using a technique known as biomimicry.

    Slate Articles Greg Lindsay 2011

  • Marine cloud brightening, by contrast, he says is not geoengineering but “biomimicry”, a means of imitating a natural process on a huge scale.

    Melting point: could ‘cloud brightening’ slow the thawing of the Arctic? Andrew Anthony 2022

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  • "London may have The Gherkin but it’s not a patch on the cactus-inspired design for the new Minister of Municipal Affairs & Agriculture (MMAA) building in Qatar. The spectacular office building and adjoining botanical dome is a great example of biomimicry, a discipline that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. This increasingly prominent approach has yielded advances in fields as diverse as aerodynamics, robotic navigation, clothing design, UAVs and the detection of water pollution. It seems that architects too can learn from nature."

    - Karen Sprey, Qatar’s giant cactus: a shining example of biomimicry, gizmag.com, 24 March 2009.

    March 24, 2009

  • Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a science that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems.

    http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/about-us/

    June 9, 2009

  • biomimicry, n.

    The Guardian, 18 February 2016:

    But the same biomimetic approach means a drone could be mistaken for a bird, even by other birds: US military Raven drones were reportedly knocked out of the sky by hawks. In any case, rather than biomimicry, Rafael Palacios of Imperial College’s department of aeronautics and one of the researchers behind the new bat-winged MAV, prefers the word bioinspiration.

    March 1, 2016