The Nature of Innovation

The Nature of Innovation

Last Thursday, the Biomimicry Institute hosted a webinar on nature-inspired medical technologies with Dr. Jeffrey Karp and Dr. Alexandra Ralevski. In this conclusion of the 3-part series on bioinspiration in biomedicine, we dive deeper into conversation with Dr. Karp on his approach to problem solving and creating an environment of empowering action.

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.

Asking Nature a Day, Keeps the Doctor Away

Asking Nature a Day,
Keeps the Doctor Away

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.

Nature’s Pulling the Fire Alarm, So What Can People Do Now?

Nature’s Pulling the Fire Alarm, So What Can People Do Now?

The recent fires in Australia burned an area over twice the size of Portugal, with estimates nearing a billion animals lost along with critical habitat, food sources, and services the forests provide. The fires have set off a feedback loop that doubles down on climate change, releasing carbon trapped in organic plant matter and removing a main absorber of atmospheric carbon at the same time.

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