Biomimicry: Innovation inspired by nature

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BiomimicryInnovation inspired by nature
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Biomimicry is the science and art of emulating
Nature's best biological ideas to solve human
problems. Biomimicry Bios lifeMimic to copy
or emulateis a new discipline that studies
nature's best ideas and then imitates these
designs and processes to solve human problems.
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• Humans may have a long way to go towards living
  sustainably on this planet,
• but 10-30 million species with time-tested genius
  have figured it out and maybe we can learn a few
  things from them?

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This is the real news of biomimicry After 3.8
billion years of research and development,
failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is
the secret to survival
Happy June beetle. Photo from BugGuide, by
Lynette. Creative Commons license.
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In biomimicry, we look at nature as model,
measure, and mentor.  
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Biomimicry introduces an era based not on what we
can extract from organisms and their ecosystems,
but on what we can learn from them.
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Instead of harvesting or domesticating, biomimics
consult organisms they are inspired by an idea,
be it a physical blueprint, a process step in a
chemical reaction, or an ecosystem principle.
Borrowing an idea is like copying a picture-the
original image can remain to inspire others.
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