About us

The Biomimicry Institute is embarking towards a ten-year vision to dramatically scale the impact that biomimicry is having on some of the biggest challenges facing the world today. Since our founding 20 years ago, we have worked to spread the practice of looking to the solutions developed by living organisms over billions of years to provide insight and inspiration for effective, efficient, and sustainable innovations and approaches to addressing our own challenges. Now-and with a plan for the next five years-we will systematically work across sectors and disciplines so that the brilliance of our natural world and all living systems is actionable knowledge.

We believe that the large-scale application of lessons from nature’s genius can have an outsized impact on three main areas:

• The combined challenge of Climate Change & Biodiversity Loss
• Our Disconnection from Nature
• The harmful impacts of the “take, make, waste” approach

To ensure that the practice of biomimicry draws from the fullness of human knowledge, the Biomimicry Institute will work over the next five years to partner ethically and equitably with individuals and groups informed by both traditional Indigenous knowledge and academic sciences. Through thoughtful urgency and collaboration, we will reconnect humans with the rest of nature and drive action and change for a sustainable future through innovative, nature-inspired solutions.