Podcasts about biomimicry innovation inspired

Janine Benyus, the world-renowned “Godmother of Biomimicry,” and her colleagues at Biomimicry 3.8 have been demonstrating what it takes to design human settlements—cities, village, homes, and businesses—that create the same ecological gifts as the wildland next door. We also feature excerpted discussions from advocates like Anne LaForti and Dayna Baumeister, both from Biomimicry 3.8. Learn how biomimicry isn't just about emulating nature's aesthetics but understanding its functional mechanisms for survival and thriving. Unpack the principles of biomimicry, its implications for industries, and the ethical considerations of borrowing from nature's playbook. Support the Podcast via PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url Biomimicry aspires to create a world mentored and inspired by Nature's 3.8 billion years of infinite creativity and evolutionary ingenuity. Janine Beynus's seminal book: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature defines biomimicry as a "new science that studies nature's models and then imitates or draws inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems." Designing, creating, and innovating in a generous and abundant vs extractive way that regenerates and reciprocates life is a fundamental aim of biomimicry. For an extended interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio LINKS Janine Benyus, from the film Biomimicry https://youtu.be/sf4oW8OtaPY?si=7W26J9cyuTayDTda Janine Benyus, from the Bioneers Conference keynote 2025: https://youtu.be/2ioEtnUjzQw?si=oawftg0O_wWGJVeY Interview with Anne LaForti on EcoJustice Radio: https://soundcloud.com/socal350/biomimicry-innovation-inspired-by-nature Dayna Baumeister "Learning From Nature" Omega Institute for Holistic Studies https://youtu.be/2SvltP8IcTk?si=5cqOAduiyyK2M26O Janine Benyus, from a TED Talk https://youtu.be/k_GFq12w5WU?si=4i1ChxIT7q6xe1FR Janine Benyus, a winner of countless prestigious awards, world-renowned biologist, thought leader, innovation consultant and author of six books, including 1997's foundational text, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, is widely considered the “godmother of Biomimicry.” In 1998, she co-founded the Biomimicry Guild, which morphed into Biomimicry 3.8 [ https://biomimicry.net/], a B-Corp social enterprise providing biomimicry consulting services to a slew of major firms and institutions. In 2006, Janine co-founded The Biomimicry Institute, a non-profit institute to embed biomimicry in formal education, and over 11,000 members are now part of the Biomimicry Global Network. Among various other roles, Janine serves on the board of the U.S. Green Building Council, the advisory board for the Ray C. Anderson Foundation, the advisory board for Project Drawdown and as an affiliate faculty member at The Biomimicry Center at Arizona State University. Anne LaForti has a Master's Degree in Biomimicry from Arizona State University, and is a project manager supporting nature-based innovation in the built environment and beyond at Biomimicry 3.8 [http://biomimicry.net]. She is deeply interested in ITEK (Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge), regenerative agriculture and landscapes, and is constantly curious about how to grow nutrient dense foods. Anne was the 2022 Spring Nature, Art & Habitat Residency (NAHR) Fellow [https://nahr.it/] in Santa Ynez, CA, working on "Soil as Pattern Language: Emulating Healthy Soil Communities" and has been a NAHR Ambassador since 2022. Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/ Support the Podcast: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url Executive Producer and Intro: Jack Eidt Hosted by Carry Kim Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats Episode 258 Photo credit: Janine Benyus

Questions, suggestions, or feedback? Send us a message!Our guest today is Janine Benyus, who is the Co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8. She is a biologist, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Since the book's 1997 release, Janine's work as a global thought leader has evolved the practice of biomimicry from a meme to a movement, inspiring clients and innovators around the world to learn from the genius of nature.She has personally introduced millions to biomimicry through two TED talks, hundreds of conference keynote presentations, and a dozen documentaries such as Biomimicry, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's Tree Media, 11th Hour, Harmony, and The Nature of Things with David Suzuki, which aired in 71 countries.In 1998, Janine co-founded the Biomimicry Guild with Dr. Dayna Baumeister. That consultancy morphed into Biomimicry 3.8, a B-Corp social enterprise providing biomimicry consulting services to clients like Nike, General Electric, Herman Miller, Procter and Gamble, and Levi's.In 2006, Janine co-founded The Biomimicry Institute, a non-profit institute to embed biomimicry in formal education and informal spaces such as museums and nature centers. Over 11,000 members are now part of the Biomimicry Global Network, working to practice, teach, and spread biomimicry in their region. In 2008, the institute launched AskNature.org, an award-winning bio-inspiration site for inventors.Janine believes that the more people learn from nature's mentors, the more they'll want to protect them. This is why she writes, speaks, and communicates so prolifically about biomimicry.We talk about:Learning from biological systemsWaging war against nature rather than allyingHow profitable emulating nature can beFitting form to functionHow ant colonies inspire mobile phone networksThe dependence of the agricultural system on oilPhotosynthetic Reaction CentreNature is the best chemistAI helping the detective work of biologistsLet's get inspired by nature!Web: www.whereshallwemeet.xyzTwitter: @whrshallwemeetInstagram: @whrshallwemeet

(Conversation recorded on June 25th, 2024)   Although artificial intelligence tends to dominate conversations about solving our most daunting global challenges, we may actually find some of the most potent ideas hiding in plain sight in the natural world around us. In this episode, Nate is joined by Janine Benyus, who has spent decades advocating for biomimicry – a design principle that seeks to emulate nature's models, systems, and elements to solve complex human problems in ways that are sustainable and holistic. What would our social and technological innovations look like if we started from the foundational requirement that they create conditions conducive to life? In what ways has biomimicry been inspiring projects for the last few decades, revolutionizing everything from energy production to food storage? How can we take biomimicry to a deeper level, changing the way we design and build to be attuned with local habitats and ‘return the favor' to nature – helping foster cleaner and more resilient ecosystems?    About Janine Benyus: Janine Benyus is a biologist, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, in which she popularized an emerging discipline that emulates nature's designs and processes to create a healthier, more sustainable planet.  In 1998, Janine co-founded Biomimicry 3.8, the world's leading nature-inspired innovation and training firm, bringing nature's sustainable designs to 250+ clients including General Electric, Google, Herman Miller, Levi's, and Microsoft.  In 2006, Janine co-founded The Biomimicry Institute, a non-profit that empowers people to create nature-inspired solutions for a healthy planet. The Biomimicry Institute runs annual Design Challenges, a Global Network of tens of thousands of educators and entrepreneurs, and AskNature.org, the award-winning bio-inspiration site for inventors.   Support Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future Join our Substack newsletter Join our Discord channel and connect with other listeners   Show Notes and More Watch this video episode on Youtube   

In this all-new episode, Krista engages biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus in a second, urgent conversation, alongside creative biomimicry practitioner Azita Ardakani Walton. Together they trace precise guidance and applied wisdom from the natural world for the civilizational callings before us now. What does nature have to teach us about healing from trauma? And how might those of us aspiring to good and generative lives start to function like an ecosystem rather than a collection of separate, siloed projects? We are in kinship. How to make that real — and in making it real, make it more of an offering to the whole wide world?Krista, Azita, and Janine spoke at the January 2024 gathering of visionaries, activists, and creatives where Krista also drew out Lyndsey Stonebridge and Lucas Johnson for the recent episode on Hannah Arendt. We're excited to bring you back into that room.Janine Benyus's classic work is Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. She is the co-founder of the non-profit Biomimicry Institute. She also co-founded Biomimicry 3.8, a consulting and training company. Azita Ardakani Walton is a philanthropist and social entrepreneur. Her projects have included, among many things, the creative agency Lovesocial and the experimental investment vehicle, Honeycomb Portfolio. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.______Sign up for The Pause — a Saturday morning companion newsletter to the On Being podcast season, and our mailing list for news and invitations all year round. Be the first to know as tickets go on sale for the On Being 2025 live national conversation tour.

Earth Day 2024 is April 22nd. Here's my 2011 conversation with JANINE BENYUS, who coined a term and invented a field called Biomimicry. After 3.8 billion years of R&D on this planet, failures are fossils. What surrounds us in the natural world has succeeded and survived. So why not learn as much as we can from what works? Nature has already solved many of the problems we grapple with. Animals, plants, and microbes are the consummate engineers. They have found what works, what is appropriate, and most important, what lasts here on Earth.

Join host Carry Kim as she welcomes biomimicry expert Anne LaForti to discuss the transformative power of looking to nature for answers. Learn how biomimicry isn't just about emulating nature's aesthetics but understanding its functional mechanisms for survival and thriving. Unpack the principles of biomimicry, its implications for industries, and the ethical considerations of borrowing from nature's playbook. Biomimicry aspires to create a world mentored and inspired by Nature's 3.8 billion years of infinite creativity and evolutionary ingenuity. Janine Beynus's seminal book: Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature defines biomimicry as a "new science that studies nature's models and then imitates or draws inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems." Designing, creating, and innovating in a generous and abundant vs extractive way that regenerates and reciprocates life is a fundamental aim of biomimicry. Biomimicry and Nature's intelligence can innovate a wide range of consumer products and services, biodegradable packaging, regenerative design, eco-friendly architecture, and building materials as well as influence social structures and organizations. Snakes and leeches can inspire better detergents, beetle wings, tortoise shells, and sea cucumbers can change the nature of packaging, kingfisher birds can inspire high speed bullet trains, ventilation systems can be modeled after termite mounds, a factory can be designed to function like a forest, arid landscapes can compel industrial development towards a regenerative model. Anne LaForti, Project Manager for Biomimicry 3.8 [http://biomimicry.net], a world-renowned biomimicry consulting group, joins us to illuminate the potential of biomimicry to help us collectively thrive and align with and for Nature. For an extended interview and other benefits, become an EcoJustice Radio patron at https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio LINKS Janine Benyus, from the film Biomimicry https://youtu.be/sf4oW8OtaPY?si=7W26J9cyuTayDTda Dayna Baumeister "Learning From Nature" Omega Institute for Holistic Studies https://youtu.be/2SvltP8IcTk?si=5cqOAduiyyK2M26O Janine Benyus, from a TED Talk https://youtu.be/k_GFq12w5WU?si=4i1ChxIT7q6xe1FR Anne LaForti is a soil nerd, myco (mushroom/fungi) enthusiast, and all-around biophile (nature lover). She has a Master's Degree in Biomimicry from Arizona State University, and is a project manager supporting nature-based innovation in the built environment and beyond at Biomimicry 3.8 [http://biomimicry.net]. She is deeply interested in ITEK (Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge), regenerative agriculture and landscapes, and is constantly curious about how to grow nutrient dense foods. Anne was the 2022 Spring Nature, Art & Habitat Residency (NAHR) Fellow [https://nahr.it/] in Santa Ynez, CA, working on "Soil as Pattern Language: Emulating Healthy Soil Communities" and has been a NAHR Ambassador since 2022. Carry Kim, Co-Host of EcoJustice Radio. An advocate for ecosystem restoration, Indigenous lifeways, and a new humanity born of connection and compassion, she is a long-time volunteer for SoCal350, member of Ecosystem Restoration Camps, and a co-founder of the Soil Sponge Collective, a grassroots community organization dedicated to big and small scale regeneration of Mother Earth. Podcast Website: http://ecojusticeradio.org/ Podcast Blog: https://www.wilderutopia.com/category/ecojustice-radio/ Support the Podcast: Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ecojusticeradio PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LBGXTRM292TFC&source=url Executive Producer and Intro: Jack Eidt Hosted by Carry Kim Engineer and Original Music: Blake Quake Beats Episode 216 Photo credit: Anne LaForti

ReGeneration Rising is a specially-commissioned RSA Oceania podcast exploring how regenerative approaches can help us collectively re-design our communities, cities, and economies, and create a thriving home for all on our planet. In this first episode of the second series, co-hosts Philipa Duthie and Daniel Christian Wahl talk to Biomimicry pioneers Janine Benyus and Dr Dayna Baumeister about the practice of learning from life's enduring patterns and wisdom. Over 3.8 billion years life has evolved to create the conditions conducive to life. In comparison, the history of human innovation is vanishingly brief. What might we learn if we looked to nature as our teacher, not only for inspiration in physical design but in ways of learning, relating and collaborating?Janine Benyus is a biologist, author, innovation consultant, and self proclaimed “nature nerd.” She may not have coined the term biomimicry, but she certainly popularized it in her 1997 book ‘Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature'. She is Co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8 and the Biomimicry Institute. Janine has introduced millions to the meme of biomimicry through two TED talks, hundreds of conference keynotes, and a dozen documentaries. In 2022, Janine was awarded the annual RSA Bicentenary Medal for her remarkable contribution to regenerative design.Dr Dayna Baumeister's foundational work has been critical to the biomimicry movement, establishing it as a fresh and innovative practice, as well as a philosophy to meet the world's sustainability challenges. As an educator, researcher, and design consultant, Dayna has helped more than 100 companies consult the natural world for elegant and sustainable design solutions. She is Co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8.Explore links and resources, and find out more at  https://www.thersa.org/oceania/regeneration-rising-podcast  Join the Re-generation: https://www.thersa.org/regenerative-futuresReduced Fellowship offer: In celebration of the launch of Regeneration Rising, we're offering a special promotion for listeners to join our global community of RSA Fellows. Our Fellowship is a network of over 31,000 innovators, educators, and entrepreneurs committed to finding better ways of thinking, acting, and delivering change. To receive a 25% discount off your first year of membership and waived registration fee, visit thersa.org and use the discount code RSAPOD on your application form. Note, cannot be used in conjunction with other discount offers, such as Youth Fellowship. For more information  email fellowship@rsa.org.uk.  

In the penultimate episode of our bite-sized series on regenerative design, this week we hear from Janine Benyus, author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, on how to combine ambition and biomimicry to create regenerative infrastructures in our cities.  Learn more about the connection between circular economy, biomimicry, and doughnut economicsFind out more about biomimicry and the work of Janine Benyus

Nature is an incredible source of inspiration for scientists and R&D experts, leading to the development of biomimicry: a new branch of science that seeks to imitate living things. Through biomimicry, researchers are able to develop new technologies by studying and imitating the designs created in nature by Allah. This approach has been applied in the world of technology, particularly in nanotechnology, robot technology, artificial intelligence, medicine, and the military. By drawing from these natural systems as models, humans are able to create more sustainable technologies than those in use today. Biomimicry has surprised scientists and revealed incomparable structures and systems that have the potential to enrich technology in a wide range of fields. Nature is a source of inspiration for scientists, and biomimicry is a way of using the extraordinary designs in living things in the service of humanity. Scientists are making important gains with regard to time and labor, and using less material resources by imitating nature. There are many scientific papers that discuss these topics, such as "Science is Imitating Nature," "Life's Lessons in Design," "Biomimicry: Secrets Hiding in Plain Sight," and more. In the 19th century, nature was only imitated aesthetically, but in the 20th century, scientists began studying natural mechanisms at the molecular level and learned from living things, as revealed in the Qur'an 1,400 years ago. Notes: 159. Frederick Pratter, "Stories from the Field Offer Clues on Physics and Nature," Christian Science Monitor; www.biomimicry.org/reviews_text.html 160. "Biomimicry;" www.bfi.org/Trimtab/spring01/biomimicry.htm 161. Michelle Nijhuis, High Country News, July 6, 1998, vol. 30, no. 13, www.biomimicry.org/reviews_text.html 162. "Biomimicry Explained: A Conversation with Janine Benyus," www.biomimicry.org/faq.html 163. Bilim ve Teknik, August 1994, 43. 164. Philip Ball, "Life's lessons in design," Nature 409 (2001): 413-16; www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v409/n6818/full/409413a0_fs.html&filetype=&_UserReference=C0A804EF465069D8A41132467E093F0EDE99. 165. "Biomimicry: Secrets Hiding in Plain Sight," NBL (New Bottom Line) 6, no. 22, November 17, 1997; www.natlogic.com/resources/nbl/v06/n22.html 166. Janine M. Benyus, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.: 1998); www.biomimicry.org/reviews_text.html 167. Ed Hunt, "Biomimicry: Genius that Surrounds Us," Tidepool, www.biomimicry.org/reviews_text.html 168. Robin Eisner, "Biomimetics: Creating Materials from Nature's Blueprints," The Scientist, July 8, 1991; www.the-scientist.com/yr1991/july/research_910708.html 169. Jim Robbins, "Engineers Ask Nature for Design Advice," New York Times, December 11, 2001.

There is a quiet, redemptive story of our time in this conversation — a radical way of approaching the gravest of our problems by attending to how original vitality functions. Biomimicry takes the natural world as mentor and teacher — for, as Janine Benyus puts it, "we are surrounded by geniuses." Nature solves problems and performs what appear to us as miracles in every second, all around: running on sunlight, fitting form to function, recycling everything, relentlessly "creating conditions conducive to life.” Janine launched this way of seeing and imagining as a field with her 1997 book, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Today she teaches and consults with all kinds of projects and organizations, including major corporations, as you'll hear. Welcome to this unfolding parallel universe in our midst, which might just shift the way you see almost everything about our possible futures.This conversation was part of The Great Northern Festival, a celebration of Minnesota's signature cold, creative winters.Janine Benyus is the author of several books, including Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. She is the co-founder of the non-profit Biomimicry Institute and Biomimicry 3.8, a consulting and training company.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.___________Please share On Being with friends, family, book clubs, neighbors, colleagues, and perfect strangers in the checkout line at the grocery store. And if you can take a minute to rate On Being in this podcast app, you'll be bending the arc of algorithms towards this community of conversation and living.Also: sign up for our Saturday morning ritual of a newsletter, The Pause, for replenishment and invigoration in your inbox — and of course all things On Being — at onbeing.org/newsletter. And delve more across our social channels: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok.

Janine Benyus is the co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8 and Biomimicry Institute. She is a biologist, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Since the book's 1997 release, Janine's work as a global thought leader has evolved the practice of biomimicry from a meme to a movement, inspiring clients and innovators around the world to learn from the genius of nature.She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:The inspiration we can take from systems in nature for ourselves and communitiesThe value of a biomimetic approach to infrastructure development and business operationsThe difference in designing systems for positive output, beyond simply net zeroResourcesBiomimicry 3.8 www.biomimicry.netBiomimicry Institute www.biomimicry.orgSupport the show

Join the gang as they talk about designs inspired by biomimicry. ----------------------------- ★ What is the podcast about? The idea stems from the power of sharing while removing the gatekeeping ideology and misinformation that has been plaguing the creative and entrepreneurial space. Our goal is to empower, inspire, and teach everyone within the community and provide a no-holds-barred approach in every episode. The pod team has more than 20 years of the combined business, marketing, and design experience and proponent allies of progress within the hype, culture, and design industry. ★ Thank you for tuning in our podcast, Trigger Happy. This podcast would not be possible without listeners and supporters like you. If you like the podcast don’t forget to follow or subscribe to not miss any new episode and please share, like, and if you’re using Apple Podcast please rate us and leave a comment. ★ Follow us in Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook: @alpineblk ★ Want to collaborate or be a guest? Email us at design@alpineblk.com. ★ For any topic suggestion, feedback or show comments email us at design@alpineblk.com. ★ For any brand and identity design needs visit our website at alpineblk.com. Sources:----------------------------- Thumbnail image by: Saleh Masoumi https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Biomimetic_Morphology_of_Phyllotaxy_Towers.jpg Tags:--------------------------------- Hype, culture, design, User experience, ux, entrepreneur, business strategy, marketing, start up, nonprofit, be inspire, progress, motivation, creative, design thinking, empower, --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alpineblk/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alpineblk/support

Jamie Miller is an award-winning designer and the founder of Biomimicry Frontiers. He was the director of OCAD University’s biomimicry program and obtained a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Guelph, focusing on systems-level biomimicry and resilience theory. In 2019, Biomimicry Frontiers was named a “World Changing Idea” by Fast Company for their collection of services in consulting, education, incubation, and investing. Their mission is to make it better, naturally.In todays episode we discuss:Inner biomimicry and looking within ourselves for inspiration.The human condition and the unconscious and the conscious mind.Our relationship with death and the impact on the world.What's the dream for biomimicry frontiers.Biogeometry.Fungi being popular amongst the biomimicry field.Potential Solutions to some problems in our world: Replacement for the material steel, Living cities like a forest, Keeping intact ecosystems, using coral instead of concrete, circular food economy etcIf you enjoy this episode please leave a rating and review. I hope this episode brings you tons of value . I Love you guys, Lets keep Transforming Ourselves and Transforming The World.Connect with Jamiehttps://www.biomimicryfrontiers.ca/pages/frontiers/https://www.instagram.com/biomimicryfrontiers/Connect with me:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lachlan.dunn/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lachlan.dunn.161/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOSrM6mN5TcDst3MwUAjKfg/videos?view_as=subscriber

With a world on fire and a pandemic raging, it sure makes sense to want to escape into the utopian vision of an intentional community. But is that in integrity with the beautiful world we want to create? And would it even work? Today on the show I’m talking to activist Ashoka Finley about the power and privilege inherent in creating land-based communities. We discuss the enormous grief of the climate crisis and how we might meet the world’s challenges with pleasure activism. We talk about indigeneity and whiteness, and the myth of the perfectible self. We look at conflict within communities through the lens of spiral dynamics and finally, how those of us with the privilege to escape crumbling urban enclaves might do so in right relationship. Ashoka is an emergent strategist and complex systems thinker. He is the former Chief Anarchy Officer at ConsenSys, a leading Ethereum software company and the current Founder & CEO of Tolo, a membership-based content platform that uses a portion of funds to build effective social change strategies. We need to compost the old world, not simply run away from it. Ashoka is here to teach us how to build the infrastructure of care for the new world that we know is possible. LINKS Tolo.earth: https://tolo.earth/ Adrienne Maree Brown: http://adriennemareebrown.net/ Audre Lorde: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/audre-lorde Robin Wall Kimmerer: https://www.esf.edu/faculty/kimmerer/ “Reinventing Organizations” Frederic-Laloux: https://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Organizations-Frederic-Laloux/dp/2960133501 “The Advantage” Patrick Lencioni: https://www.amazon.com/Lencioni-Patrick-M-s-Advantage-Organizational/dp/B008EAWBXC/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= “Governing the Commons” Elinor Ostrom: https://www.amazon.com/Governing-Commons-Evolution-Institutions-Collective/dp/0521405998 “Thinking in Systems” Donella H. Meadows: https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/1603580557 “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature” Janine M Benyus: https://www.amazon.com/Biomimicry-Innovation-Inspired-Janine-Benyus/dp/0060533226 TIMESTAMPS :07 - Ashoka’s beginnings learning about how unaccountable power has so much influence on the world. :19 - The enormous grief of the climate crisis :25 - Pleasure Activism, Indigeneity, and Whiteness :36 - Ashoka’s lineage as a Black American :45 - Dealing with trauma, and the myth of the perfectible self :50 - Conflict in communities and spiral dynamics 1:02 - Should people pursue intentional communities? 1:04 - Privilege and the desire to escape San Francisco 1:10 - Pursuing Intentional Community in right relation

Who needs you now? Who can you serve? Who needs childcare? Who needs a meal? Who needs a zoom call? In this episode of The Boldly Show, we speak with author and global visionary, Lynne Twist who shares her perspectives on the value placed upon essential workers in these times and how we as a society are being offered an opportunity to rethink our adoration of what she calls “fake jobs”. She provides beautiful outside-the-box suggestions for supporting your vulnerable neighbours and maximizing your voice in changing times. Resources Lynne is the author of the bookhttps://soulofmoney.org/products/ ( “The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life”) Lynne is the founder of the https://soulofmoney.org/ (Soul of Money Institute) Watch Lynne's TedX Talk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnbTa_seb3s&feature=emb_title (“Our Collective Dream”) Lynne is one of the founders and board members for https://www.pachamama.org/ (The Pachamama Alliance) Lynne is one of the founding members of the founder of the https://soulofmoney.org/?attachment_id=1757 (The Hunger Project) Lynne recommended the book https://biomimicry.org/janine-benyus/first-chapter-biomimicry-innovation-inspired-nature/ (“Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature” by Janine Benyus) Lynne recommended the bookhttps://www.kateraworth.com/ ( “Donut Economics” by Kate Raworth)

Brent sits down with Christophe Limpalair, VP of Growth at Linux Academy (https://linuxacademy.com/) and founder of Scale Your Code (https://scaleyourcode.com/), for a get-to-know-you conversation that spans from taming your lizard brain through to mastering the miscellaneous, with a generous ask of the community. Topics Scale Your Code Podcast Learning Life lessons Failing Networking Introverted Social skill Software development Career path Chaos vs Stability Risk-taking Opportunity cost Taming the lizard brain 4-Hour Workweek 4-Hour Chef Accelerated learning Generalist as mastery Books & biographies Episode Links Scale Your Code (https://scaleyourcode.com/) Scaling PHP Apps by Steve Corona (https://www.scalingphpbook.com/) Mixergy - Learn from Proven Entrepreneurs (https://mixergy.com/) Jupiter Broadcasting Telegram Group (https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram) Seth's Blog - Quieting The Lizard Brain (https://seths.blog/2010/01/quieting-the-lizard-brain/) Seth Godin: Quieting The Lizard Brain - 99U (video) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtZfTpV4KPE) The 4-Hour Chef by Tim Ferriss (https://fourhourchef.com/) The 4-Hour Chef Audiobook by Tim Ferriss - BitTorrent Bundles (https://now.bt.co/bundles/a1e9a2153051b92d00b27903fcbdc2c530b5c4a044935c1ed7bbdf60e7b307db) Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, by Janine Benyus (https://biomimicry.org/janine-benyus/) The Judge: A Life of Thomas Mellon, Founder of a Fortune by James Mellon (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11387891-the-judge) Crush It! / Crushing It! by Gary Vaynerchuk (https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/books/) Crush It! Audiobook - by Gary Vaynerchuk (https://www.audible.com/pd/Crush-It-Audiobook/B0032G7016) The Solopreneur Hour (https://solopreneurhour.com/podcast-archive/) Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16121.Titan) The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4839382-the-first-tycoon) The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16131.The_House_of_Morgan) The Definitive Guide to Achieve AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification - Linux Academy (https://linuxacademy.com/blog/amazon-web-services-2/the-definitive-guide-to-achieve-aws-cloud-certification/) Tim Ferriss' Fear-Setting - The 4-Hour Workweek chapter excerpt & TED talk (https://tim.blog/2017/05/15/fear-setting/) Special Guest: Christophe Limpalair.

Biomimicry – What We Can Learn From Nature Can Save Our World with Janine M. BenyusAired Thursday, 13 October 2016, 7:00 PM ETNature is far more wondrous that we think – in fact, as scientists across the globe are proving, the natural world is full of hidden design clues that can save our world. Biomimicry is a revolutionary new science that analyzes nature’s best ideas – spider silk and prairie grass, seashells and brain cells – and adapts them for human use. In her seminal book, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, science writer Janine Benyus reveals how nature is offering real solutions to human design challenges that can help us save our world– from creating toxin-free materials, to developing waste-free products and systems, to building entire cities that function like Redwood forests.Topics will include:* What leaves can teach us about gathering energy * What spiders can teach us about weaving fibers * What chimps can teach us about healing ourselves * And much more…About the Guest Janine M. BenyusJANINE BENYUS is a biologist, author, innovation consultant, and self-proclaimed “nature nerd.” In her 1997 book, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, she names an emerging discipline that emulates nature’s designs and processes (e.g., solar cells that mimic leaves) to create a healthier, more sustainable planet. Since the book’s release, Janine has evolved the practice of biomimicry, speaking around the world about what we can learn from the genius that surrounds us.In 1998, Janine co-founded the world’s first bio-inspired consultancy, Biomimicry 3.8 (formerly the Biomimicry Guild), bringing nature’s sustainable designs to 250+ clients including Boeing, Colgate-Palmolive, Nike, General Electric, Herman Miller, HOK architects, IDEO, Interface, Natura, Procter and Gamble, Levi’s, Kohler, and General Mills.In 2006, she co-founded the Biomimicry Institute, a non-profit dedicated to making biology a natural part of the design process. The Institute hosts annual global biomimicry design challenges on massive sustainability problems, mobilizing tens of thousands of students and practitioners through the Global Biomimicry Network to solve those challenges, and providing those practitioners with the world’s most comprehensive biomimicry inspiration database, AskNature, to use as a starting place.https://biomimicry.org/ and http://asknature.org/

Aired 06/12/11 JANINE BENYUS is a natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Since the book's 1997 release, Janine has evolved the practice of biomimicry, consulting with sustainable business, academic, and government leaders. Janine has co-founded the Biomimicry Guild, the Biomimicry Institute, and the web portal http://www.asknature.org/ to further this work. Her next book will be Nature's Code. http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/

Aired 12/16/08 After 3.8 billion years of R&D, failures are fossils. The conscious emulation of life's genius is a sustainable survival strategy for the human race. Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a new science that studies nature's best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to solve human problems. Studying a leaf to invent a better solar cell is an example of this "innovation inspired by nature." The core idea is that nature, imaginative by necessity, has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with. Animals, plants, and microbes are the consummate engineers. They have found what works, what is appropriate, and most important, what lasts here on Earth. We are learning how to grow food like a prairie, build ceramics like an abalone, create color like a peacock, self-medicate like a chimp, compute like a cell, and run a business like a hickory forest. Learn more at www.biomimicryinstitute.org and www.asknature.org Janine Benyus' luscious 1997 book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature is unique and profound. In the book, she not only invents a new field that she has named biomimicry, but she inverts the way we all think about design - the alchemy that turns intention into action. Benyus draws her design inspiration from nature's wisdom, not people's cleverness. Some 3.8 billion years of evolution have exposed the design flaws of roughly 99% of nature's creations - all recalled by the Manufacturer. The 1% that have survived can teach powerful lessons about how things should be built if they're to last. For example, nature's design genius has led to the creation of bat-inspired ultrasonic canes for the blind, synthetic sheets that collect water from mist and fog as desert beetles do, and paint that self-cleans like a lotus leaf. Little plastic-film patches have been designed using adhesiveless gecko-foot technology, so that carpet tiles can be stored in a big roll, but also easily removed. Equally promising, we'll soon make solar cells like leaves, supertough ceramics that resemble the inner shells of abalone, and underwater glue that mimics the natural as forests. Biomimicry isn't biotechnology. Biomimicry learns and emulates how spiders make silk; biotechnology transplants spiders' silk-making genes into goats, then sorts silk from milk and hopes the genes don't get loose. Biotechnology is smart kids in an oil depot with matches; biomimicry is wise adults in a rain forest with flashlights. Biotechnology is pure hubris; biomimicry is luminous humility - treating nature as model and mentor, cherished not as a mine to be stripped of its resources but as a teacher. Steering this design revolution is a centered, gentle, funny, lovely lady who lives in North America's Montana Rockies, observes deeply, writes with rare beauty, and lectures breathtakingly. By reorganizing the biological literature around function not organism - to reveal which organism knows how to solve your design problem - Benyus and her colleagues at the Biomimicry Guild and Biomimicry Institute in Montana are starting to help the world of the made work like, and live harmoniously with, the world of the born. This will change your life. And it may save the world. -- Amory B. Lovins, chairman and chief scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute

Guest Janine Benyus, author of "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature," speaks with Diane Horn about biomimicry and the Nature's 100 Best Technologies project.