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What Biodegradation Actually Requires
The word “natural” carries a lot of weight in fashion’s sustainability conversation. Natural fibres, the assumption goes, will eventually return to the earth. The problem is that biodegradation is not a property a fibre either…
What the Nature of Fashion Pilots are Teaching Us About Place
When we designed the Nature of Fashion: Design for Transformation initiative, we made a deliberate choice: to work with pilot partners rooted in three different regions, each pursuing the question of textile waste transformation from…
The Built Environment Has a Nature Problem. The Biomimicry Institute, Together With Industry Leaders, Is Issuing a Pledge to Change It and Is Calling for Signatories to Join Them.
Concluding a year-long global convening of cross-sector thought leaders, the Institute and partners released the Nature Positive Buildings, Cities & Infrastructure Pledge. Seattle, WA — September 2, 2026 — The Biomimicry Institute today released the…
The Biomimicry Institute Partners with Vision Maker Media on New Film Initiative
Funding Available for Films About Indigenous Health and Environmental Knowledge LINCOLN, NE – August 12, 2026 – – Vision Maker Media (VMM), the premier source of media by and about Native Americans since 1976, announces…
How Can the Fashion Industry Learn to Stretch Like Nature?
A guest article for The Biomomicry Instutute by Katrin Ley, Managing Director, Fashion for Good Undeniably, nature is the ultimate engineer. When you look at the natural world, flexibility and resilience are everywhere, from the…
The Biomimicry Institute Announces the 2026 Ray of Hope Accelerator Cohort
The Biomimicry Institute is proud to announce the 2026 Cohort of the Ray of Hope Accelerator.
Fashion must look beyond existing systems to tackle its most persistent waste problems
During London Climate Action Week, we convened a private gathering of senior sustainability leaders and fashion brands
Metamorphosis Beyond Metaphors: Notes from Amsterdam with Asha Singhal
I recently spent two weeks in Amsterdam, attending Katapult Future Fest and Fashion for Good’s Innovation Fest. I came back with a full heart and a renewed sense that something real is shifting in the…
Presenting the 2026 Biomimicry Youth Design Challenge Winners
Meet the top three designs from the 2026 Youth Design Challenge, hosted by Pocacito.
