by The Biomimicry Institute | Oct 21, 2017 | Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, Blog
When the members of Team NexLoop set out to design a water management system for urban food producers, they wanted to make it locally attuned, adaptable, and self-sufficient. With those design specs in mind, they searched for the best examples of how to develop a...
by Biomimicry Institute | Oct 12, 2017 | Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, Blog
A year ago this October, Camila Hernandez and Camila Gratacós stood in front of 2,000 people on the National Bioneers Conference main stage and accepted the first-ever Ray of Hope Prize® for their nature-inspired soil restoration solution called BioPatch. The...
by Biomimicry Institute | Sep 27, 2017 | Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, Blog, Uncategorized
The path from farm to fork is fraught with issues. From how we grow our food, to how it’s packaged and stored, how we choose where and what to eat, to what happens to our food waste, there are a lot of problems to be solved. One thing that we at the Institute...
by Biomimicry Institute | Aug 13, 2017 | Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, Blog
By John Anderson Lanier Executive Director of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation, and one of Ray’s five grandchildren. I was 18 years old, and I was feeling the butterflies. I didn’t know where I was going, and Atlanta isn’t the easiest town to navigate. In fact,...