HOW DOES NATURE DO IT?

Nature has  already solved so many if not all of the problems we are trying to solve, with it’s own perfect “industrial designs” .  We have been acting as if,  we humans, have to keep reinventing the wheel each time we have a flat tire.

Let us stop for a moment and observe the wasps and their construction expertise and the sharks’ bacteria free “skin” and the water proof properties of the butterfly wings  and see if we can learn and be inspired to create more wisely and sustainably.

As Janine Benyus says, we are not the first to build housing for our young to protect them or we are not the first to recycle and reuse materials; beetles have been doing it way longer than we have.

Take a minute and watch this fascinating Ted Talk video about bio-mimicry and how these inventors directly go ask nature to create their new technologies.

Janine Benyus shares nature’s design on TED Talk

Go to asknature.org website and find a pot-luck of information about bio-mimicry. And you can even participate!