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Mapping the Biomimicry Online Course Ecosystem

Mapping the Biomimicry Online Course Ecosystem

Every year on 22 April, we join millions of others in celebrating Earth Day: a global event that motivates us to design a way of living that is healthy, equitable, and thriving. From the tiniest products to the largest systems, biomimicry enables us to make this goal a reality. Why not join us this year? If you’re feeling inspired to make the leap into the world of biomimicry, a 15% discount on all Learn Biomimicry courses awaits you. Simply use the coupon code EARTHDAY-15 at checkout. (Valid until May 31, 2021).

Teaching Biomimicry for Beginners

Teaching Biomimicry for Beginners

The infectious enthusiasm that beginners find once they realize how approachable biomimicry is inspires me to continue introducing this discipline to anyone and everyone interested in learning from nature. The natural world is as infinite an entity as we have. When you introduce your beginners to biomimicry, you’re opening a whole new window into the world around them. I don’t know any work that’s more satisfying than that.

Biomimicry 101: Nature & The College Freshman (Part 2)

Biomimicry 101: Nature & The College Freshman (Part 2)

A key lesson in biomimicry is that life adapts to survive not despite adversity, but because of it. Nature’s genius might just be the best professor we have. From product innovation and sustainability to systems thinking and partnerships, reconnecting with nature has shown us how to build better communities. But biomimicry also offers us a lens to see how the very ways we think and act might not be so different from the natural world already.

Biomimicry 101: Nature & The College Freshman (Part 1)

Biomimicry 101: Nature & The College Freshman (Part 1)

Over millions of years of competition and adaptation, nature has produced the ultimate medicine cabinet. Pharmaceutical companies have caught on – bioprospecting to learn how human health can benefit from Mother Nature’s medicines. First time hearing about this? It’s biomimicry in action, and it’s a bigger part of our lives already than you probably realize. As a warming climate increases the presence of infectious diseases and global pandemics, life-saving treatments are in higher demand than ever. Hopefully researchers can find these miraculous natural molecules and sustainably develop drugs before it’s too late. It’s a race against ourselves – humans and the sixth mass extinction of the world’s biodiversity.

Calling all change-makers to ‘Learn Biomimicry’

Calling all change-makers to
‘Learn Biomimicry’

What if we take this moment in time to imagine how we could redesign – or metamorphose – our world? Could we use this as a global opportunity to reevaluate our priorities and our possibilities? What if we weren’t complacent in our return to “normal”? Instead of hastily reassembling the old building blocks, we instead set about rebuilding our world based on nature’s principles that have stood the test of time and continue to thrive on this planet.

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