Janine Benyus helped bring the word biomimicry into 21st century vocabularies in her 1997 book on the subject. Her company, The Biomimicry Group, encourages biologists at the design table to ask: how ...

Biomimicry can occur in both form and process. The beak of the kingfisher bird inspired the redesigned Japanese bullet train. While the abalone shell and its alternating layers of hard and soft ...

Janine Benyus, the globally admired advocate of biomimicry, the art and science of emulating nature in order to advance the cause of sustainability, is speaking Thursday at E.J. Thomas Hall, 198 Hill ...

Originally published by Joel Makower on LinkedIn: Biomimicry @ 20: A conversation with Janine Benyus It's been two decades since the book "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature," was published, in ...

Broach the subject of housekeeping with Janine Benyus, author of "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired By Nature," and you'll quickly be discussing how beetles keep the air pores in their exoskeletons from ...

When the Old Mutual insurance company hired architect Mick Pearce to build a combined office and retail building in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe, they threw in a challenge: Make the building comfortable ...

The president of the Biomimicry Institute on learning from nature, designing cities to perform like ecosystems and why chemists, engineers and architects need to learn more biology Janine Benyus: ...

Windows that prevent bird collisions by mimicking the UV-reflective qualities of spider webs; a train that travels faster, uses less energy and makes less noise after it was redesigned to resemble a ...

How can we learn from nature to get water without wells, materials without mining, or cooling without AC? Over 150 graduate students, faculty members, and Cambridge residents packed into a crowded ...

Science writer Janine Benyus believes more innovators should look to nature when solving a design problem. She says the natural world is full of inspired ideas for making things waterproof, ...

Janine Benyus is a renowned biologist, innovation consultant and author, who named and popularized the biomimicry movement. Janine is the author of six books, including the seminal Biomimicry: ...