News & Updates
Updates from the Institute
The Biomimicry Institute and Upaya Social Ventures Partner to Tackle Textile Waste in India
The Biomimicry Institute’s Nature of Fashion initiative and Upaya Social Venture’s Dignified Jobs Accelerator have announced a partnership to develop a regional pilot for textile waste decomposition in India.
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 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…
Events
Building as Nature: The Biomimicry Institute Launches the Nature Positive Cities & Infrastructure Alliance
Today’s built environment is responsible for approximately 40% of global energy use, 50% of raw material extraction, and is one of the leading drivers of habitat loss and biodiversity decline. And yet, the sector has…
Fusion Fashion Tech Summit, The Reimagination of Good Clothes: What You Take Off Matters (NYCW)
What makes clothing good? For its third year, the Fusion Fashion Tech Summit returns under the theme The Reimagination of Good Clothes, bringing together designers, technologists, researchers, innovators, policymakers, investors, creators, and next-generation leaders to…
Global Tipping Points Conference 2026
The world is approaching decisions that will shape lives, economies and ecosystems for generations. Climate change is no longer a distant risk; its impacts are already visible in food systems, health, cities and financial stability.…
