Saturday, October 5, 2013

Biomimicry and Design: Life Creates Conditions Conducive to Life (Janine Benyus ~ TEDTalks)

ASK Nature.org  > > > Biomimicry Design Portal

Want to invent something?  Ask yourself ~ how does Nature accomplish that?

AskNature.org is designed to evolve into providing that opportunity.

Life Creates the Conditions Conducive to Life

What is AskNature?
Imagine 3.8 billion years of design brilliance available for free, at the moment of creation, to any sustainability innovator in the world.

Imagine nature's most elegant ideas organized by design and engineering function, so you can enter "filter salt from water" and see how mangroves, penguins, and shorebirds desalinate without fossil fuels.

Now imagine you can meet the people who have studied these organisms, and together you can create the next great bio-inspired solution.



That's the idea behind AskNature, the online inspiration source for the biomimicry community. Think of it as your home habitat—whether you're a biologist who wants to share what you know about an amazing organism, or a designer, architect, engineer, or chemist looking for planet-friendly solutions. AskNature is where biology and design cross-pollinate, so bio-inspired breakthroughs can be born.

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