AskNature Learning
It’s time for solutions that get us back in sync with nature
Nature’s strategies, honed over millennia, can teach us how to solve today’s biggest problems.
Our new short courses offer an interactive opportunity to explore how learning from nature can transform your work, project, or practice. Each course fosters the nature curious mind through connection, collaboration, and conversation.
November:
The Nature
of Innovation
4 Weeks of Live Virtual Sessions | $350
Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am PT
(11/13, 11/20, 12/4, 12/11)
April:
The Nature
of Materials: Textiles
4 Weeks of Live Virtual Sessions | $349
Thursdays, 8:00-9:30am PT
(4/2, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23)
Join the Global Community
AskNature Hive is a global community inspired by nature’s genius—where scientists, designers, engineers, Indigenous knowledge holders, and leaders come together to connect, learn, and co-create regenerative solutions through dialogue, collaboration, and live monthly conversations.
AskNature Chat is here.
AskNature Chat is a new tool being designed to harness the power of AI to make knowledge of nature easy to access, understand, and apply to human challenges—and to call upon nature’s genius as a guide for human use of this developing technology.
ABout us
The Biomimicry Institute is an inclusive community taking action to solve the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, the sense of disconnection from nature, and the impact of the “take-make-waste” approach on nature.
our vision
A nature-positive, inclusive, and regenerative world inspired and guided by nature’s genius.
Nature-inspired solutions are…
regenerative sustainable “Nature Positive” inclusive circular energizing healing
Our Work
We partner with problem solvers to transform industries
We welcome all collaborators who have an interest in advancing regenerative, inclusive, and Nature Positive solutions.
INNOVATION SPOTLIGHT
Mycocycle: Construction decomposition inspired by forests
Mycocycle uses fungi to break down toxic petrochemicals and produce sturdy, lightweight mycelium byproducts.
What is biomimicry?
Learning from nature’s genius
There are millions of innovations hidden in plain sight all around us. Biomimicry brings life on earth back to the center of decision making.
Latest POsts
Updates from the Institute
Biomimicry Institute Launches their Inaugural Co-Lab focused on Buildings, Cities & Infrastructure
Biomimicry Institute Launches their Inaugural Co-Lab focused on Buildings, Cities & Infrastructure aimed to catalyze sector-wide shift toward nature-positive solutions.
Shifting Landscapes: Reflections from Textile Exchange 2025 in Lisbon
From Convincing to Creating The mood throughout the conference was urgent yet hopeful. As Inna Kitaychik described it, the subtext has shifted from “What should we do to fix the problem?” to “Who is my…
Lessons from our Nature Retreat: Voices from the 2025 Cohort (Part 2)
This is Part 2 of my reflections on the Nature Retreat with the 2025 cohort of nature-inspired startups, following my first article, Doing the Hard Things That Matter: Reflections on our 2025 Nature Retreat. At the…
5 Key Characteristics of Nature-Inspired Startups
What does it mean for a startup to be nature-inspired? The phrase sounds simple, but it holds layers of meaning. At our Ray of Hope Accelerator, “nature-inspired” isn’t a tagline, it’s both an eligibility requirement…
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