Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature’s best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems.

If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature – taking advantage of evolution’s 3.8 billion years of R&D since the first bacteria. Biomimics study nature’s best ideas: photosynthesis, brain power, and shells – and adapt them for human use. They are revolutionising how we invent, compute, heal ourselves, harness energy, repair the environment, and feed the world.

Science writer and lecturer Janine Benyus names and explains this phenomenon. She takes us into the lab and out in the field with cutting-edge researchers as they stir vats of proteins to unleash their computing power; analyse how electrons zipping around a leaf cell convert sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they’re sick; study the hardy prairie as a model for low-maintenance agriculture; and more.

• The Shark's Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature Is Inspiring Innovation
• Biomimicry: Inventions Inspired by Nature
• The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
• Biomimicry in Organizations: Business management inspired by nature: How to be inspired from nature to find new efficient, effective and sustainable ways of managing business. New enhanced edition
• Biomimicry Resource Handbook: A Seed Bank of Best Practices
• Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
• Biomimicry in Architecture
• Energy: Its Use and the Environment
• The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability (Collins Business Essentials)