biomimicry

900 Foot Offshore Wind Turbine Mimics Spinning Sycamore Seeds

July 31, 2010 Design

We’re big fans of Janine Benyus‘ biomimcry idea (see her inspirational talk on 12 sustainable design ideas from nature) and so are psyched to see this news from TreeHugger.com: a new wind turbine design is based off of those Sycamore seeds that you may have played with as a kid (some of us still do!). [...]

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Biodegradable and home compostable packaging replacement

July 14, 2010 Design

Thanks to @junecohen and TED for turning us on to Eben Bayer, founder of Ecovative Design. In the video below, Eben reveals that they’ve developed a replacement for Styrofoam: transforms low-value agricultural byproducts into strong biological composites that can be used as biodegradable alternatives to conventional plastics, foams, and packaging materials One of their products [...]

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Janine Benyus: 12 sustainable design ideas from nature

April 10, 2010 Design

Learning about the 6th Mega Extinction that we’re in can become a bit overwhelming and sometimes I find a sensation of wanting to retreat into apathy. How can any of us really make a difference in changing the course of the planet’s ecosystem when facing forces like globalization, population explosion, and consumerism? What if we [...]

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Biomimicry and “Puff Puff” physics

March 27, 2010 Design

The working title of the first 6th Mega project is “Puff Puff”. The name has several different meanings, but one of them relates to biomimicry and the physics design of Puff Puff. The word biomimicry was coined by Janine Benyus, a science writer, innovation consultant, and conservationist – a self-proclaimed nature nerd. The basic idea [...]

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