Bioneers Series 2-04: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

I adore nature and science should do the same to get behind all those secrets and abilities shaped by evolution. The sheer speed of technological progress, that leads to the unleashing of faster and faster scientific insights, has already confirmed and refuted some of the ideas of this already over 2......more

I want to like this book, and I agree with her underlying theses. I enjoy reading all the gee-whiz almost-there projects that are going to supplant petroleum-based agriculture, energy, and the like, any day now. But no matter how many stories she tells about projects that *could* be better than what......more

The first chapter of this 1997 book should be mandatory curriculum in... something - whatever discipline you can lock this philosophical framework for technical applications of environmental science. It is engineering, biology, and philosophy wrapped up into one. Her premise isn't the standard conce......more

This book tackles biomimicry in agriculture, synthetics and material science, economica and even computing by taking us through the works of researchers in this topic. The thing I LOVED about this book was how it also explores changes in how we can and should think as people. The writing can be relati......more

The concept of biomimicry and the author are featured prominently in Prince Charles’ TV documentary project “Harmony”. The book Biomimicry was written in 1997 and the science is a little stale, but the idea is still very interesting. Biomimicry is largely happening in the subtleties of biology, so b......more