Biomimicry Institute
Biomimicry and Climate Change
Nature and the Hopeful City
By Kathy Zarsky, founder, BiomimicryTX network Spring in Austin, Texas is the perfect time to contemplate our natural environment. All of our senses are stimulated with bursts of colors, fragrant blossoms (and seasonal allergies for some), bird song, variable weather...
The superorganism way of life: moving from scarcity to abundance
By Tamsin Woolley-Barker Biomimicry saved my life, and brought sunlight to me in a very dark place. It began in a place of intense scarcity––a deeply finite world. I was struggling. There wasn’t enough of anything––not enough time, not enough money, not enough hope....
Can an Ancient Plant Teach Us How to Create Healthier Soils?
Fast-tracking nature’s design solutions to foster sustainability breakthroughs with the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge. Far up in the Andes mountain range, where the climate is harsh and unforgiving, ancient plants are paving the way for new species to survive and...
Re-Aligning with Nature: A Q&A with author Denise DeLuca
By Erin Connelly What if business as usual didn’t have to be so…usual? In Denise DeLuca’s new book, “Re-Aligning With Nature: Ecological Thinking for Radical Transformation,” she explores how true change – on personal, company-wide, and societal levels...
Learning from nature and designing as nature: Regenerative cultures create conditions conducive to life
Most of humanity has lost a vital connection with the natural world – a connection that, from our species’ origins until recently, informed and sustained our participation in nature. The scientific and industrial revolutions brought us almost miraculous technological progress and solved many problems, but they also propagated a mindset where progress meant substituting the old with the new. We came to favor widely-applicable technological solutions over place-based bio-cultural wisdom, and to value short-term gratification over the art of the long view. Eventually we came to think of ourselves and of culture as being somehow separate from or even independent of nature.
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