Biomimetic Building Material
Product design student Chao Chen has created an innovative building material that can open when it’s sunny and close to offer protection when it rains. Inspired […]
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Climate Change, Sustainability, and Biomimicry
Acclaimed environmental writer Andy Revkin recently blogged on his New York Times opinion page, Dot Earth, about a recent conference in Paris: Our Common Future Under […]
Continue reading »Biomimicry Applications
This inspiring list of stellar applications of biomimicry to medicine, transportation and exploration, pollution control, and energy, is good to keep in your back pocket when […]
Continue reading »Denmark’s Solar-Powered School
Danish architectural firm C. F. Møller is planning to build an innovative solar-powered international school in Nordhavn, Copenhagen. It will be completed in 2017, and boast 12,000 […]
Continue reading »Leveraging Biomimicry for…Puddles!
Architectural firm Hibino Sekkei has created a school space where children can play in rainwater puddles. The rest of the school is designed with plenty […]
Continue reading »Beyond Design Thinking: Liberating Structures
I recently encountered a website that piqued my interest. The homepage, Introduction to Liberating Structures (LS), inspired me to think about what I always think about – meaningful […]
Continue reading »ECOCAPSULE: Take Home Anywhere
Ecocapsule is a revolution in living. Essentially, it is a wind and solar-powered micro home that you can cart around. Gizmodo provides an in-depth look […]
Continue reading »A Lesson in Cooperation…from Fish
Via a recent news piece from Nature, I learned that the behavioral science field is abuzz with findings from a study by Redouan Bshary, who studies mutualism. […]
Continue reading »Starfish Eject Microchips
I imagine it’s very uncomfortable to have a foreign body injected into you. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could maneuver the darned thing without […]
Continue reading »Achieving Climate Justice through Labor Unity
This wonderful article from Harsha Walia makes the important point that we must unite across workers who work to extract resources and those who work to […]
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