Category: Blog
The Biomimicry Institute Unveils 10-Year Strategy
The Biomimicry Institute, a nonprofit organization committed to advancing a Nature Positive, inclusive, and regenerative world inspired and guided by nature’s genius, today announced the launch of its ambitious 10-year strategy at New York Climate…
How Intentionality Drives Our Startup Selection Process
Intentionality breathes life into our Ray of Hope Accelerator's mission and into our operations. Our mission is to accelerate the growth of nature-inspired startups to scale systemic solutions to the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
Meet the 2024 Ray of Hope Accelerator Cohort
The Biomimicry Institute announced the 10 startups selected to participate in the transformational Ray of Hope Accelerator. The six-month accelerator is designed to propel nature-inspired startups towards commercialization through robust training, networking, $15,000 in non-dilutive funding…
An Interview with Sudoc, as They Scale Up Nature-Inspired Chemistry
Our Director of Innovation, Jared Yarnall-Schane, sat down with Roger Berry, CEO of Sudoc, and their investors Job Van Schelven of PureTerra and Martijn van Rheenen of Momentum Capital, to learn more about how this…
Exploring Big Questions at the 2024 Launchpad Retreat
The Biomimicry Institute has completed a weeklong nature immersion as part of our Launchpad Program. We brought together 20 of the most curious and creative minds from around the world in May to share ideas…
Biomimicry Institute Announces Winners of the 2024 Youth Design Challenge
The 2024 Youth Design Challenge saw remarkable participation from across the world, with submissions from 11 countries diving into the biomimicry process under the guidance of dedicated educators and mentors. From tackling issues ranging from…
Why We Evolved Ray of Hope from a Prize to an Accelerator
We know that to have a healthy and resilient ecosystem we need the entire system to work together. There cannot be one winner. The Ray of Hope Accelerator will support the technologies, industries, and people…
Can Brainless Life Have Answers That We Don’t?
What does it mean when the most powerful and well-funded organizations, NASA to the United Nations, turn to a brainless blob for answers?
How did a single cell guide top scientists to map the dark cosmos?
A single cell guided the world’s top scientists through another universe and its only limitations were our own.
Is a Blob Capable of Rethinking Our Built World Without Bias, Boundaries—or a Brain?
They've mapped rail systems, nervous systems, the cosmos and gave us a fresh take on Paris. But how? And what does this mean for future cities and how we live in them?
Beyond EV and AI: Is Slime Mold Driving the Future of Car Innovation?
No powerful limbs. No aerodynamic wings. So slow, movement can only be noticed with a timelapse video. So why are the experts turning to slime mold for mobility breakthroughs?
Your Next Flight May Be Designed by Slime Mold and Human Bones
No one would guess human bones and slime mold would lead a design trend. Definitely not a billion dollar one. But the epically odd duo earned seats at the design table, and the results make…
Watch a No-Brained Blob Think Out Loud
Slime mold’s oddities are balanced by behavior that is ultra-relatable—they are ruled by food! Case in point: A hungry individual is avoided more by its peers than a poisoned one. Humans are now looking to…
Slime Mold 101: Meet the Genius Without a Brain
Slime mold's party tricks are proving to be laced with valuable intel we wouldn't have without them.
The Bizarre Genius of a Brainless Blob
It's been a consultant for NASA, shot at by police and mistaken for an alien. How slime mold—a brainless, single-celled organism—mapped the dark universe, keeps challenging the top minds to rethink intelligence, and has an…
Disappearing Freaks of Nature—and the Secrets Going With Them
The ultimate freak show is an understatement: Armed worms, sex-crazed fish, poison-hungry butterflies, polka-dotted flying good luck charms, and the most despicable creature born with a grin whose blood fights gravity. No one knows all…
6 Innovations Shaped by the Most Powerful Force on Earth
What does it mean when a shrimp shapes the future of aircraft, dolphins predict tsunamis, and invisible organisms help solve the plastic crisis? It means in a world dominated by market-driven solutions and rushed progress,…
What We Fear Most May Help Keep Us Alive
We know what’s at stake. It’s an active decision to pursue innovations and strategies that honor life for the long-haul versus choosing quickies that lead to our next extinction. And if fact-based efforts and “last…
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…
The Future of Innovation is Here: 8 Inventions from Nature’s Laboratory
The following is a contributed piece by guest writer, Katie Losey. Banning swimsuits suggests they are X-rated and risqué, but that’s not why speedos made waves at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. That year, 98% of…
