Biomimicry Innovation Inspired by Nature

Name: Biomimicry Innovation Inspired by Nature
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ISBN: 9780060533229

ISBN-10: 0060533226

ISBN-13: 9780060533229

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Authors: Janine M. Benyus

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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…

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List price: $21.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/17/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 4.41" wide x 9.21" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Janine M. Benyus (born 1958 in New Jersey) is an American natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author.




Echoing Nature: Why Biomimicry Now?



How Will We Feed Ourselves? Farming to Fit the Land: Growing Food Like a Prairie



How Will We Harness Energy? Light into Life: Gathering Energy Like a Leaf



How Will We Make Things? Fitting Form to Function: Weaving Fibers Like a Spider



How Will We Heal Ourselves? Experts in Our Midst: Finding Cures Like a Chimp



How Will We Store What We Learn? Dances with Molecules: Computing Like a Cell



How Will We Conduct Business? Closing the Loops in Commerce: Running a Business Like a Redwood Forest



Where Will We Go from Here? May Wonders Never Cease: Toward a Biomimetic Future


Bio-Inspired Readings


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