After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strate….

Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use..

There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms..

For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details of our world….

Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to m….

In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form..

Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift..

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution..

Biomimicry is … the conscious emulation of life’s genius..

Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block..

The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all ab….

Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks deeply, wi….

The answers to how to live sustainably on our planet are all around us..

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water..

There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mi….

Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically ne….

Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple u….

The most irrevocable of [natures] laws says that a species cannot occupy a niche that appropriates all resources--there has to be some sharing. Any ….

A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our o….

Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate….

Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in th….