After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles... Nature runs on sunlight. Nature uses only the energy it needs. Nature fits form to function. Nature recycles everything. Nature rewards cooperation. Nature banks on diversity. Nature demands local expertise. Nature curbs excesses from within. Nature taps the power of limits.
The answers to how to live sustainably on our planet are all around us. - Janine Benyus
The answers to how to live sustainably on our planet are all around us.
- Janine Benyus
The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the fut… - Janine Benyus
The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the fut…
Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate… - Janine Benyus
Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate…
The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world. - Janine Benyus
The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.
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… - Janine Benyus
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…
When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability. - Janine Benyus
When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.
Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically ne… - Janine Benyus
Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically ne…
Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift. - Janine Benyus
Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift.
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… - Janine Benyus
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…
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