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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…
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…
Presenting the 2026 Biomimicry Youth Design Challenge Winners
Meet the top three designs from the 2026 Youth Design Challenge, hosted by Pocacito.
What Fashion’s Circular Economy Is Still Missing
A collaboration between the Biomimicry Institute and The Microfibre Consortium Imagine a garment designed to give everything it has and then quietly return. At the end of its useful life, its fibres break down safely,…
From Hospital Scrubs to Surgical Sutures: Berlin’s Circular Bioeconomy
In Berlin-Brandenburg, a surgical team prepares for an operation. The biodegradable sutures they’re using were once a nurse’s uniform. In a nearby greenhouse, plants are thriving with biofertilizers made from contaminated cleaning cloths that have…
From Incineration to Innovation: The Netherlands is transforming Fashion’s “Impossible” Waste
Every year, the Netherlands discards approximately 215,000 tonnes of post-consumer textiles, roughly 12 kilograms per person. Poor recyclability sends half to incineration. This waste stream containing contaminated materials, blended synthetic-natural fabrics, and mixed colors, defies…
Biophilic Interiors: Bringing Natural Elements Indoors
In our modern, urbanized world, it’s easy to feel disconnected from nature. Concrete jungles, artificial lighting, and synthetic materials dominate our everyday environments, often leaving us feeling distant from the organic, calming presence of the…
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?
