A prominent naturalist asked a Portland audience of real estate professionals to design buildings that are as well-suited to their surroundings as the animals that have lived there for centuries.

Biomimicry can occur in both form and process. The beak of the kingfisher bird inspired the redesigned Japanese bullet train. While the abalone shell and its alternating layers of hard and soft ...

Janine Benyus is a renowned biologist, innovation consultant and author, who named and popularized the biomimicry movement. Janine is the author of six books, including the seminal Biomimicry: ...

If you’ve got a design problem you need to fix, you could lock a bunch of engineers into a room to help brainstorm. Or you could look to the natural world. Biomimicry is the practice of replicating ...

Science writer Janine Benyus believes more innovators should look to nature when solving a design problem. She says the natural world is full of inspired ideas for making things waterproof, ...

When the Old Mutual insurance company hired architect Mick Pearce to build a combined office and retail building in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe, they threw in a challenge: Make the building comfortable ...

Windows that prevent bird collisions by mimicking the UV-reflective qualities of spider webs; a train that travels faster, uses less energy and makes less noise after it was redesigned to resemble a ...

Janine Benyus is known worldwide for her influence in naming the practice of biomimicry in her seminal book, \_Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature\_, and for her work shaping the practice as an ...