Podcast appearances and mentions of Janine Benyus

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

  Replay, from Fall 2008 – but so powerfully pertinent to now… Janine will be speaking at Bioneers (and will be re-joining us as a radio guest in the weeks to come!).   “Biomimicry,” as sine qua non for life on planet… that humans humbly cooperate with Nature's guiding design Genius Again we are drawn to replay this most fantabulous show from the archives with Janine Benyus. Benyus describes herself as “Scientist, animist, poet,” founder of Biomimicry Institute. “Let's learn democracy from bees! Before our arrogance destroys the bees, who truly know how to vote.” “Range voting.” Grief and ingenuity… innovation & limits   biomimicry.net/bios/janine-benyus     *Woof*Woof*Wanna*Play?!?* · www.CoyoteNetworkNews.com · The Visionary Activist Show on Patreon The post The Visionary Activist Show – Biomimicry (replay) appeared first on KPFA.

On today's episode of Architectette we welcome Kira Gould. Kira is a writer, strategist, and convener focused on advancing design leadership and climate action through her company, Kira Gould CONNECT. She is also the co-host of the Design the Future podcast with Lindsay Baker, a Senior Fellow with Architecture 2030, and co-authored Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design.We talk about: - Kira's career as a non-architect working in AEC. She elaborates on her family roots in the industry and how she leaned into her passions for writing and sustainability. - We talk about the power of storytelling and how limiting industry jargon and using clarifying language helps to set clear expectations about the design and construction process with clients. - We also chat about the evolution of sustainability from an offshoot to an integral part of practice today with leaders not only leading sustainable initiatives, but the companies where they work.- Kira and I review the lessons and impact of Women in Green and discuss other impactful topics including parenthood, mentorship, Architecture 2030, and developing thought leadership. ____Thank you to our sponsors:⁠⁠⁠⁠Arcol⁠⁠⁠⁠ is a collaborative building design tool built for modern teams. Arcol streamlines your design process by keeping your model, data and presentations in sync enabling your team to work together seamlessly.- Website:⁠⁠⁠⁠ Arcol.io⁠⁠⁠⁠- LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/arcol-tech⁠⁠⁠⁠- Twitter/ X:⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://x.com/ArcolTech⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Layer⁠⁠⁠ is the workflow platform for buildings, empowering teams to capture field data & photos, connect it to their drawings & models, and create beautiful deliverables & reports.Use Layer to build your own workflow to generate Room Data Sheets from Revit, manage your CA processes such as RFIs or Punch lists, conduct field surveys and much more. The best thing is, it's all connected directly to Revit so you'll never have to copy and paste data between windows again.- Website:⁠⁠⁠ https://layer.team/architectette⁠⁠⁠____Links: Connect with Kira: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiragould/Design the Future Podcast: https://www.designthefuturepodcast.com/Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design (2007), Kira Gould with Lance HoseyKira's Book Recommendations (elaborations on the Architectette Website):Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World, Elizabeth Sawin (2024)Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency, Sarah Ichioka, Michael Pawlyn (2021)It's Not the End of the World, Hannah Ritchie (2024)What If We Get It Right, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (2024)Doughnut Economics, Kate Raworth (2017)Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World, and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, Hans Rosling (2018)Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design, Lance Hosey (2012)Books that were Foundational in Kira's Journey: Cradle to Cradle, William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2002)Biomimicry, Janine Benyus (1997)How Buildings Learn, Steward Brand (1994)____Connect with Architectette:- Website: ⁠⁠⁠ www.architectette.com⁠⁠⁠ (Learn more)- Instagram:⁠⁠⁠ @architectette⁠⁠⁠ (See more)- Newsletter:⁠⁠⁠ www.architectette.com/newsletter⁠⁠⁠ (Behind the Scenes Content)- LinkedIn:⁠⁠⁠ The Architectette Podcast⁠⁠⁠ Page and/or⁠⁠⁠ Caitlin Brady⁠⁠⁠Support Architectette:- Leave us a rating and review!-⁠⁠⁠ Patreon⁠⁠⁠Music by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ AlexGrohl⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

249. Bölümde MORİ Kurucusu ve eğitmen Enise Burcu Derinboğaz konuğum oldu. Biyomimikriyi, doğadan ilham alarak inovasyon yapmayı ve bunun farklı sektörlerde nasıl uygulanabileceğini konuştuk. Kuşlardan şehir tasarımına, döngüsel ekonomiden sürdürülebilirlik çalışmalarına kadar geniş bir perspektifte doğanın iş dünyasına sunduğu çözümleri ele aldık. (00:00) – Açılış (00:43) – Enise Burcu Derinboğaz'ı tanıyoruz. https://mori-cabin.com/ (03:08) – Biyomimikri nedir? (04:57) – Kuşları örnek alıp ilham almak! Hangi sektörlerde kullanabiliriz? İş dünyasına nasıl uyarlayabiliriz. (07:58) – Gıda, mekanik, şehircilik konularında spesifik örneklerden konuşabiliriz. Optimizasyon anlamında neler vaad ediyor. Bu yeni bir pazar mı, gerçekçiliğini nasıl görüyoruz? Janine Benyus - https://biomimicry.org/janine-benyus/ https://asknature.org/profile/janine-benyus/ Kitap Öneri - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210907798-biyomimikri-i-lham-n-do-adan-alan-i-novasyon?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Ry1LaTzn1z&rank=1 (13:35) - Sürdürülebilirlik çalışmalarına nasıl katkı koyabilir? Amerika'da nasıl ele alınıyor? (16:06) – Döngüsel ekonomi ve atıksız tasarım gibi konular üzerine… (18:30) - Doğa ile ilgili birçok başka kavram da var, bunlardan iş dünyasında sürdürülebilrilik profesyonelerinin ve yöneticilerin başvurabileceği diğer konular, başlıklara örnekler neler? -         Biyofilik tasarım -         Perma kültür -         Yürüyen Köşk - https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C3%BCr%C3%BCyen_K%C3%B6%C5%9Fk (24:00) – Dünya üzerinde bu özelliklere uyan şehirler hangileri? (28:20) – Kitap önerisi Alış Ağacı İle Sohbetler – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13556128-al-a-ac-ile-sohbetler?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=dNz6oTNC1H&rank=1 (29:19) – Kapanış Enise Burcu Derinboğaz - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eniseburcuderinbogaz/ Sosyal Medya takibi yaptın mı?   Twitter - https://twitter.com/dunyatrendleri Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dunya.trendleri/ Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/dunyatrendleri/ Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/aykutbalcitv Goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/28342227-aykut-balc   aykut@dunyatrendleri.com Bize bağış yapıp destek olmak için Patreon hesabımız – https://www.patreon.com/dunyatrendleri Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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   

# On Becoming Hawk Hi there - this is Michael Kiser, founder and publisher of Good Beer Hunting. I'm coming to you today with a difficult message—but a simple one.  Good Beer Hunting—after nearly 15 years, and at least 10 of that that I would consider serious years—is going on a platform-wide sabbatical. It'll be indefinite. It might be permanent. We have some ideas for what the future of Good Beer Hunting might look like—and soon I'll be working on that vision with the counsel of my colleagues to see where it takes us. But the earliest vision is so drastically different than what GBH currently is, that the only way to get to the other side is to make a clean break. We've got to clear out the cache. We've got to quiet everything down for a bit and see what it all sounds like on the other side of that silence. We're shutting down our various content streams—the podcast, the website, social—ending a sort of always-on feed of content that's been, for many of us writers, editors, and artists, our life's work. And for most of us, our best work. This thing that started as my personal blog would go on to be published in the annual Best American Food Writing, and win multiple Saveur blog awards before I had the courage to start publishing other voices beyond my own. It began as a way to pursue my curiosity for beer, combining the beauty I saw in it with the strategic implications of a new wave of culture and industry the world over. Good Beer Hunting came from a simple idea and simpler execution of a blog and grew into an international publication covering unique stories from countries all over. With every major shift, from one editor in chief to another, it would morph into something that felt beyond any reasonable ambition. Eventually winning awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Imbibe Magazine, more than 100 awards from the North American Guild of Beer Writers, and most recently nominated for 6 James Beard Awards and winning 3 of them. If I consider what it would mean for us to achieve something beyond all that, I'd have to believe in a truly insane fantasy. In the many years of running a beer publication that took us to the top echelon of all publications —literally taking podiums next to the New York Times, Washington Post, and The New Yorker—we've had to build and sustain an organization that simply doesn't have a roadmap for survival in 2024's media landscape. And to be clear, it never did.  From day one, I vowed to not try and make GBH profitable, because the media world already showed that to achieve profitability was to welcome a certain kind of death—and often a shameful one. Chasing advertisers and clicks with listicles and promotions—and as a result, never creating anything of real value to anyone but the advertisers. It was a fool's errand, and one we didn't follow. By not hunting down ad revenue and declining offers over the years, Good Beer Hunting was able to remain a personal project in a way, even as our ambitions continually grew and results showed what an impact our stories and contributors made on the world of beer and beyond. Instead of trying to manage our costs with advertising, we've been able to form longstanding partnerships with companies like Guinness, which has helped mitigate at least some of financial losses we took on every year. We also launched an experimental subscriber community called the Fervent Few, which took a meaningful chunk out of the debt and paid its dividends by connecting readers and fans from all over the world during the loneliest parts of the pandemic. But in reality, even these things combined didn't cover the gaps as we continued growing.  The challenge of expanding GBH during its rapid growth phase came from my own pocket, which kept our editorial team independent and in control. But it also guided us to this moment. Paying for writers, designers, and editors was a budget pulled from my own strategic consultancy called Feel Goods Company, which was no small thing. Each year, the costs sometimes crested over $100,000 that weren't covered by underwriting partners like Guinness or subscribers from the Fervent Few. And in the last couple years, costs went far beyond that. For years, I put other important things in my family's life on hold to continue supporting GBH's growth and ambitions.  As a father of three kids—and sometimes the only one working—that decision wasn't made lightly. I exhausted myself making the consulting business uncommonly successful in order to keep both things afloat and growing. And as costly as that was in a financial sense, I've never regretted the decision to do it—and I never took a dime. In fact, there was one year when we more or less broke even, and with the small amount left over we gave the editorial team, including our freelancers, a surprise end-of-year bonus. More like a tip really.  Good Beer Hunting is the longest I've ever done anything, and it's also the best thing I've ever done. And it existed entirely because I wanted it to. But outside of anything I wanted it to become—my own pride and ambitions for GBH don't really compare to the awe I feel when I look at what people like Austin Ray, Claire Bullen, and Bryan Roth helped it become. Our three successive Editors in Chief over those 10 years—each of whom shaped a new generation of Good Beer Hunting into an image that only they could have. Each of whom provided the shoulders for the next to stand on. And the countless writers and artists who were drawn to their leadership and the level of execution in our collective work—who gave us some of their own best work.  I'm thinking of Kyle Kastranec from Ohio, the first writer other than myself, who wrote a feature for GBH, setting a high bar. I'm thinking of Charleston's own Jamaal Lemon who won a James Beard award for GBH alongside other winners and nominees like Stephanie Grant, Teresa McCullough, Chelsea Carrick, and Mark Dredge.  I'm thinking of people like Matthew Curtis, our first editor in the UK who turned the lights on in an entirely new country for us, and Evan Rail who kept turning on lights in dozens of countries since as our first International editor. Emma Jansen, and Ren Laforme who joined our editors team in the last iteration, rounding out some of the most ambitions and wide sweeping storytelling we've ever produced. Kate Bernot, who leveled up our news reporting to create an unmatched source of access to explain to readers why things matter in beer and beverage alcohol, which is now a growing stand-alone business unit in Sightlines. What felt like a fluke at first, has become something I can confidently own. We produced industry-changing, internationally-recognized, and James Beard Award winning material…consistently. I'm also often reminded of the smaller things we've done—like the blogs and short stories we wrote—about the politics and personal traumas of the way we eat, drink, and relate to each other in our families, in our communities, and against the injustices so many people face in an industry that's ancient and profoundly immature at the same time. It's an unlikely place for a beer publication to have a voice —but GBH has always built its scope around the perspectives of the individual souls who occupy space within it rather than narrowing down a profitable and popular slice of the beer conversation and reduced them to it.  Mark Spence unpacked his Midwestern anxieties around family and food, Lily Waite and Holly Regan opened a door to discuss non-binary and transgender issues,  Jerard Fagerberg and Mark LaFaro took big risks to focus us all on the dangers and costs of alcoholism, David Jesudason and many others captured our attention with stories of harassment, racism, labor abuse, and more that so many readers told us were critical and prescient and more importantly, helped. These stories helped people. Over the years, we've had readers cry as they recounted what a story meant to them. We've had others scream and curse at us for the same. Some even went on the record as sources to ensure our reporting had the substance it needed to make an impact. Careers were started and ended because of the stories we wrote. Those stories had the same effect on ourselves. We've had writers put something heartbreaking or inspiring into the world only to have it wake something up in them and want to do more—take even bigger swings —and find a voice within them that carried them far beyond Good Beer Hunting. And ultimately, that's where my heart is today. This week, I was struggling to find the words to describe what I was going to do with Good Beer Hunting—what comes next. I knew what the move was, and why, and I knew it was time—but I didn't have the poetry for it—so I couldn't quite feel it yet. 

On a long drive to rural Michigan to pick up my son from summer camp, I was listening to an episode of my favorite podcast, On Being. And I heard Azita Ardakani and Janine Benyus, two biomimicry specialists who have a way of describing the natural world with a stunning relevance. They said:  “Life is just so full of vitality and so much ON and being alive and then it's not.” “…What is the difference between something that's alive and something that's not? It seems that with the holding on to life —there's also a feeling of once it's gone, the letting go—like a body breaking down—but it doesn't really. I mean, not for long. What happens is a tree falls and eventually becomes a log. Eventually grows a fungus and you think of it as breaking down—it is no longer a tree. But then a mouse comes along and it's the end of the fungus. And that material—thats' where the reincarnation comes in —that fungus becomes mouse.  “And then a hawk comes along and the material—that material of that mouse becomes hawk. There's this circulation—called metabolism. It's catabolism—then it gets anabolized up into a new form. The grief is brief because transformation happens almost right away—it gets transformed.” Now, GBH isn't dying and it's not wasting away. The truth is it's still sort of thriving in its own manner of being. It's a tree taller than I ever imagined. But success can kill an organization—I've seen it a hundred times in the companies I've worked for, companies I've consulted on—big and small. It's all proportionate. How far away from the roots does that beautiful canopy get before it surprises itself with its own extended weight? How much life force does it expend trying to prop itself up at the expense of something new? 

There's never an objectively right time—but there is a good time. A time not informed by reactionary fear and loathing - but by guts, love, and ambition for something new. 

So I've decided it's time to take the tree down.  
If I look back over the past few years I can see that Good Beer Hunting will be that fallen tree for many. It'll be a source of nutrients for many a mouse that becomes hawk. But the truth is, GBH has been the start of a kind of upward anabolism for some time now. Jamaal Lemon recently took a dream editors job at the Institute of Justice. Stephanie Grant has launched her own community project called The Share. Before that, Matthew Curtis started Pellicle Mag in the U.K. Lily Waite opened a brewery. So many GBH writers have gone on to write books, start podcasts, and create platforms of their own, it's astounding. And what I'm describing right now isn't something that started with GBH—indeed, GBH has been a recipient their upward anabolism from the lives they've lived—each bringing their own energy and nutrients here and nourished us with lifetimes full of curiosity, learning, and love for their craft. The risks in starting something like Good Beer Hunting are myriad. Financial risk is everywhere—but I've happily and defiantly borne the brunt of it for many years. There's personal risk—in media, everything you put out into the world has a way of coming back to you in unexpected, and often dangerous ways. And it does. There's opportunity risk—if this thing fails, and if it takes a long time to fail, what opportunities might you have missed out on in the meantime? But to me, the biggest risk of all is it just not mattering. Not being relevant. Missing the mark. Today, I feel satisfied that Good Beer Hunting matters. I have so many people to thank—and so many feelings to share that are best relayed one-on-one. It'll take me many months and years to pass along those sentiments to individuals who took that risk with me and succeeded. I'm not going to the final word on all this.  My experience of GBH is singular—being the sole source of continuity over those 15 years. But so much of what's defined GBH have been the perspectives and voices of those who've invested their talents in it over the years. So before our final sign-off this summer, you'll hear reflections from leaders, contributors, partners and friends of Good Beer Hunting as well. This is part of the grieving and metabolizing process.  There are a few more episodes of the podcast to share still, and a few remaining stories we've been working on that you'll see this month and maybe into August. If you want to stay up to date on future plans, sign up for the newsletter.  
This episode—along with all podcast episodes over these many years—was edited by Jordan Stalling. And it was scored by my friend, soulmate, and composer, Andrew Thioboldeax, who himself has been along for the ride for over a decade.
 Aim true, pour liberal folks—have a great rest of the year. 

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.

  “Biomimicry,” as sine qua non for life on planet… Again we are drawn to replay this most fantabulous show from the archives with Janine Benyus. Benyus describes herself as “Scientist, animist, poet,” founder of Biomimicry Institute. “Let's learn democracy from bees! Before our arrogance destroys the bees, who truly know how to vote.” “Range voting.” Grief and ingenuity…innovation & limits From Fall 2008 – but so powerfully pertinent to now… www.JanineBenyus.com The post The Visionary Activist Show – Biomimicry (Replay) appeared first on KPFA.

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.  

This week, Christiana Figueres and her guest co-host Isabel Cavelier Adarve introduce the second episode in their mini-series, Our Story of Nature: From Rupture to Reconnection.  In this episode, Living With Nature, the hosts share a series of conversations with experts from the worlds of food, the economy, energy and design to illuminate how our man-made systems are rooted in a separation from the natural world. You'll hear insight and fresh ideas from author Kate Raworth, Founder and Executive Chair, EAT Gunhild Stordalen, energy strategist at Rocky Mountain Institute Kingsmill Bond, author of the Earth Transformed: An Untold History, Peter Frankopan and co-founder of Biomimicry, Janine Benyus. With appropriate outrage, Christiana and guests will explore how the climate crisis, the energy crisis, the inequality crisis and the food crisis all share the same deep root: extractivism based on extrinsic principles. They argue that this extractivism not only depletes the planet—the very soil of the Earth itself—it also depletes our human soul.  With characteristic and bold optimism, Christiana, Isabel and guests will argue that if we can overthrow the tyranny of GDP, invest in harvesting rather than in extraction, and if we design our world mimicking nature's genius, we might yet create a future where humans and nature thrive in balance. This episode is part of a series that shines a new light on humanity's fundamental relationship with the rest of nature as key to responding to the climate crisis and to transitioning into a regenerative future.  Do not miss the third and final episode, Living As Nature, in which Christiana and Isabel invite listeners to contemplate what it will take for each of us to fully awaken to our interconnectedness as, perhaps, the starting point - the foundational stone - without which no new home can be built for a truly regenerative future.  Please don't forget to let us know what you think here, and / or by contacting us on our social media channels or via the website.    NOTES AND RESOURCES   GUESTS   Arturo Escobar, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Kate Raworth, Author of Doughnut Economics and Co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab Twitter | DEAL Twitter Krista Tippett, award-winning journalist, author and host of On Being podcast Website | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Dr. Gunhild Anker Stordalen, Founder and Executive Chair of EAT Foundation LinkedIn | Instagram Kingsmill Bond, Energy Strategist at RMI LinkedIn | Twitter  Janine Benyus, Co-Founder Biomimicry 3.8 and Biomimicry Institute Biomimicry Institute | LinkedIn | Twitter    Learn more about the Paris Agreement.   It's official, we're a TED Audio Collective Podcast - Proof! Check out more podcasts from The TED Audio Collective   Please follow us on social media! Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn

This week, Christiana Figueres introduces a new mini-series, Our Story of Nature: From Rupture to Reconnection. Over three episodes, Christiana and guests will shine a light on our relationship with the rest of nature. Does transforming our connection with the natural world hold the key to transforming our response to the multiple environmental, political and social crises we face?  Christiana's accompanied on this journey by co-host Isabel Cavelier Adarve. Isabel is a former negotiator for Colombia and co-founder of Mundo Comun.  In Episode 1, Living From Nature, Christiana, Isabel and guests delve deep into the roots of humanity's separation from nature. They explore moments where cracks may have appeared and widened, including the advent of farming and a particular interpretation of the Book of Genesis. How have certain ideas shaped different cultures' relationships with the natural world, and what are their consequences? Is our distance from nature related to other forms of separation, like colonialism?  How can we nurture and narrate new stories of our relationship with nature to address 21st Century problems? The best and brightest minds from around the globe contribute to Our Story of Nature, including Peter Frankopan author of the Earth Transformed: An Untold History; Janine Benyus, co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8; Dr Lyla June Johnston, indigenous musician and community organiser;  Krista Tippett, award-winning journalist and author Reverend Doctor Augusto Zampini Davies, former adjunct Secretary of the Vatican Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development ; Wolf Martinez, Traditional Medicine Person, Guardian and Keeper of the old indigenous ways; Arturo Escobar Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Xiye Bastida the co-founder of Re-Earth Initiative.  Once listeners have heard about the roots of our rupture from nature, tune in for the second episode of the series - Living With Nature. A stellar cast of experts will join Christiana to explore how our current systems - food, economy, energy, design - have been built on a mindset of extraction and separation. With characteristic optimism, they will give us a glimpse into how these systems, in many places, are planting the seeds for a more regenerative future.  The third and final episode, Living as Nature, is where the science of awe meets spirituality.  Christiana and Isabel invite listeners to contemplate what it will take for each of us to fully awaken to our interconnectedness as the starting point - the foundational stone - without which no new home can be built for a truly regenerative future.  Please don't forget to let us know what you think here, and / or by contacting us on our social media channels or via the website.    NOTES AND RESOURCES   GUESTS Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University Website | Twitter | LinkedIn Janine Benyus, Co-Founder Biomimicry 3.8 and Biomimicry Institute Biomimicry Institute | LinkedIn | Twitter  Krista Tippett, award-winning journalist, author and host of On Being podcast Website | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Reverend Doctor Augusto Zampini Davies LinkedIn | Laudato Si Platform | Laudato Si Movement | Laudato Si Research Institute, University of Oxford | The encyclical Laudato Si | European Climate Foundation Arturo Escobar, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology Xiye Bastida, Co-Founder Re-Earth Initiative, Indigenous Wisdom, TIME100Next, UN HLC Ambassador, TED Speaker Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | TED  Dr. Lyla June Johnston, Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages Website | YouTube | Instagram | Facebook Wolf Martinez, Diné, Lakota, & Spanish. Two Spirit. Speaker, Ceremonialist and practitioner of Ancient Healing Arts. Therapist. Lover. Human Being. LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook Sister True Dedication, Zen Buddhist monastic teacher in Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village Community Twitter | Instagram Plum Village LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, Public Intellectual, Author, Professor and Chief Curator, The Emergence Network Website | Course webpage | LinkedIn | Facebook   Learn more about the Paris Agreement.   It's official, we're a TED Audio Collective Podcast - Proof! Check out more podcasts from The TED Audio Collective   Please follow us on social media! Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn

In the fourth episode of our limited series Knowledge Symbiosis: Can Biomimicry and Indigenous Science Harmonize?, Roxanne Swentzell and Anne LaForti engage in a conversation hosted by Sara El-Sayed, converging Indigenous ideologies and scientific understanding of soils, seeds, regenerative versus sustainable terminologies, and steps to healing ourselves and our ecosystems.This limited series, Knowledge Symbiosis: Can Biomimicry and Indigenous Science Harmonize?, is produced by The Cultural Conservancy's Native Seed Pod in collaboration with Arizona State University and Learning From Nature: The Biomimicry Podcast. We invite dialogue from multiple perspectives—practitioners in biomimicry, and elders, practitioners, and Indigenous scholars—so we might better understand each other and explore opportunities to weave these learnings. These conversations delve into the ethics of science, human-nature connection, regenerative design, and our relationship to all other kin on this planet. Five episodes will be available on The Native Seed Pod and Learning From Nature: The Biomimicry Podcast for listeners to tune in and reflect. The episodes are hosted in rotation by Dr. Melissa K Nelson, Dr. Sara El-Sayed, and Lily Urmann, and feature conversations between Indigenous scholars and practitioners: Kim Tall Bear, PennElys Droz, Melissa Nelson, and Roxanne Swentzell; and Biomimicry scientists and practitioners: Janine Benyus, Dayna Baumeister, Maibritt Pedersen, and Anne LaForti.

Episode Description: Karl Scmieder and Erum Azeez-Khan welcome Ginger Dosier, an architect-turned-biotech innovator, and the co-founder of Biomason, to the Grow Everything podcast. With a rich background that intertwines experiences at NASA and a deep passion for sustainable building materials, Ginger shares her groundbreaking work in developing biofabricated bricks. This revolutionary approach to construction not only challenges traditional methods but also introduces a sustainable and environmentally friendly alternative. Throughout the episode, listeners will gain insights into the intersections of architecture, biology, and environmental stewardship, highlighting Ginger Dosier's unique perspective on building a greener future. Grow Everything brings the bioeconomy to life. Hosts Karl Schmieder and Erum Azeez Khan share stories and interview the leaders and influencers changing the world by growing everything. Biology is the oldest technology. And it can be engineered. What are we growing? Learn more at www.messaginglab.com/groweverything Topics Covered: 00:00:00 - Welcome to Innovation: Introduction to the Episode 00:02:01 - Meet Ginger Dosier: Interview with the Co-Founder of Biomason 00:08:13 - Revolutionizing Materials: The Concept of Biofabricated Cement 00:11:34 - Crafting the Future: How Biomason Grows Bricks 00:17:53 - Changing the Industry: Biocement's Impact on Construction 00:19:29 - Beyond Strength: Analyzing Biocement's Performance Characteristics 00:22:41 - Looking Ahead: Future Applications of Biocement 00:26:55 - Evolving Ideas: The Development of Biomason 00:29:40 - Facing the Future: Upcoming Challenges in the Industry 00:31:25 - Localizing Production: The Power of Distributed Biomanufacturing 00:37:48 - Transparent Building: The Importance of Supply Chain Clarity 00:42:53 - Leading Change: The Role of Biotech Firms in the New Economy 00:45:23 - Inspirational Farewell: Closing Thoughts and Future Goals Episode Links: Ginger Dosier on LinkedInBiomason Biomason on Twitter Ginger Krieg Dosier Wikipedia Biomason (company) Biomimicry by Janine Benyus (book) Endolith (company) Ecovative (interview with CEO Eben Bayer is Ep. 23, company) Parley for the Oceans (company) Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari  (book) Superfly by Jonathan Balcombe (book) Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman (book) Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine (film) Leave The World Behind (film) Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber (series) Have a question or comment? Message us here: Text or Call (804) 505-5553 ⁠Instagram⁠ / ⁠TikTok⁠ / ⁠Twitter⁠ / ⁠LinkedIn⁠ / ⁠Youtube⁠ / ⁠GrowEverything website⁠ Email: groweverything@messaginglab.com Support here: ⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠ Music by: Nihilore Production by: Amplafy Media --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messaginglab/message

In this second episode of the limited series Knowledge Symbiosis: Can Biomimicry and Indigenous Science Harmonize?, Dayna Baumeister and Melissa K Nelson continue their conversation, hosted by Sara El-Sayed, exploring the common ground and mapping the divergences between Indigenous science and biomimicry. They dive into the nature of biomimicry and Indigenous knowledges and how they are often misconstrued by non-practitioners; potential ethical limits to seeking knowledge; and an ethical space of engagement for biomimicry practitioners and Indigenous knowledge-holders.This podcast series, Knowledge Symbiosis: Can Biomimicry and Indigenous Science Harmonize?, invites dialogue from both perspectives—practitioners in biomimicry, and elders, practitioners, and Indigenous scholars—so we might better understand each other and explore opportunities to weave these learnings. These conversations delve into the ethics of science, human-nature connection, regenerative design, and our relationship to all other kin on this planet. Five episodes will be available on The Native Seed Pod and Learning From Nature: The Biomimicry Podcast for listeners to tune in and reflect. The episodes are hosted in rotation by Dr. Melissa K Nelson, Dr. Sara El-Sayed, and Lily Urmann, and feature conversations between Kim Tall Bear, Janine Benyus, Dayna Baumeister, PennElys Droz, Maibritt Pederson, Anne LaForti, and Roxanne Swentzell.

In today's episode of Science for Care, join Anca Petre as she delves deep into the captivating world of biomimicry – the art and science of observing nature to solve complex human challenges. It's more than just mimicking the obvious; it's about adapting and innovating using nature's 3.8 billion years of research and development as our blueprint. Explore the historical evolution of biomimicry, from the Wright brothers drawing inspiration from pigeons for flight, to the foundational contribution of Otto Schmitt and the enlightening insights of Janine Benyus. Listen in as Thomas PEYBERNES from Ceebios unravels the remarkable innovations in healthcare spurred by nature's designs. Discover the fascinating intricacies of the mosquito's painless bite, the transformative potential of the lugworm's hemoglobin, and the unique biocompatible qualities of spider silk in surgery. Biomimicry isn't just about borrowing ideas; it's a testament to the intertwined fates of humans, animals, and the environment. This episode reminds us of the delicate balance between innovation and responsibility, urging us to not only take inspiration from nature but also to give back. Join us in celebrating the profound impact of biomimicry on healthcare and embrace the holistic concept of One Health. Nature's secrets are all around us, and sometimes, the answers we seek are hidden in plain sight. So, the next time you marvel at nature's wonders, remember: imitation isn't just the sincerest form of flattery; it's also the path to groundbreaking innovation. Podcast by HealthTech for Care Production: MedShake Studio  Host: Anca Petre  Guest: Thomas PEYBERNESHosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

In this second episode of the limited series Knowledge Symbiosis: Can Biomimicry and Indigenous Science Harmonize?, Dayna Baumeister and Melissa K Nelson continue their conversation, hosted by Sara El-Sayed, exploring the common ground and mapping the divergences between Indigenous science and biomimicry. They dive into the nature of biomimicry and Indigenous knowledges and how they are often misconstrued by non-practitioners; potential ethical limits to seeking knowledge; and an ethical space of engagement for biomimicry practitioners and Indigenous knowledge-holders.This podcast series, Knowledge Symbiosis: Can Biomimicry and Indigenous Science Harmonize?, invites dialogue from both perspectives—practitioners in biomimicry, and elders, practitioners, and Indigenous scholars—so we might better understand each other and explore opportunities to weave these learnings. These conversations delve into the ethics of science, human-nature connection, regenerative design, and our relationship to all other kin on this planet. Five episodes will be available on The Native Seed Pod and Learning From Nature: The Biomimicry Podcast for listeners to tune in and reflect. The episodes are hosted in rotation by Dr. Melissa K Nelson, Dr. Sara El-Sayed, and Lily Urmann, and feature conversations between Kim Tall Bear, Janine Benyus, Dayna Baumeister, PennElys Droz, Maibritt Pederson, Anne LaForti, and Roxanne Swentzell.

In this inaugural episode of the limited series Knowledge Symbiosis: Can Biomimicry and Indigenous Science Harmonize?, Dayna Baumeister joins Melissa K. Nelson and Sara El-Sayed in a conversation exploring the common ground and mapping the divergences between Indigenous science and biomimicry. SERIES SYNOPSISBiomimicry, nature-inspired design, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), or Indigenous Knowledge Systems, both have roots in nature and a deep respect for natural processes. However, the two fields have different worldviews: biomimicry is oriented from a Western science perspective, while TEK emerges from Indigenous, spiritual, and cosmological worldviews. With a common source of inspiration, professionals in both fields recognize the potential for collaboration, yet no formal efforts or conversations in this realm have been published for a wide audience. This podcast series, Knowledge Symbiosis: Can Biomimicry and Indigenous Science Harmonize? invites dialogue from both perspectives—practitioners in biomimicry, and elders, practitioners, and Indigenous scholars—so we might better understand each other and explore opportunities to weave these learnings. Five episodes will be available on The Native Seed Pod and Learning From Nature:The Biomimicry Podcast for listeners to tune in and reflect. The episodes are hosted in rotation by Dr. Melissa Nelson, Dr. Sara El-Sayed, and Lily Urmann, and feature conversations between Kim Tall Bear, Janine Benyus, Dayna Baumeister, PennElys Droz, Maibritt Pederson,  Anne LaForti, and Roxanne Swentzell. These conversations delve into the ethics of science, human-nature connection, regenerative design, and our relationship to all other kin on this planet.

Você certamente já usou Velcro, já caiu de alguma escada em caracol, já usou Pato Purific que tem forma de, isso mesmo, pescoço de pato. Falamos sobre biomimética, o uso da natureza como inspiração pra solução de problemas, com o arquiteto Fernando Laterza.   Ficha técnica Hosts: Leticia Dáquer e Thiago Corrêa Convidado: Fernando Laterza Edição: Leticia Dáquer Capa: Leticia Dáquer Data da gravação: 16/10/2023 Data da publicação: 19/10/2023   Coisas mencionadas no ou relacionadas ao episódio: CEEBIOS The Biomimicry Institute Página do Eastgate Centre (edifício inspirado no cupinzeiro) na Wikipedia Verbete sobre a Janine Benyus na Wikipedia Nosso episódio 105: O que é um museu?   Músicas/áudios:  The Biomimicry SONG | Science for Kids | Grades K-2 The Biomimicry Song What's Biomimicry   A Balada do Pistoleiro Leticia Dáquer Livro: Tudo Pode Ser Roubado (Giovana Madalosso)   Fernando Laterza YouTube: Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Livros: do Ailton Krenak Filme: Não Sou um Homem Fácil (2018, Netflix)  Museu: Pinacoteca Contemporânea (São Paulo) Museu da Língua Portuguesa (São Paulo)   Thiago Corrêa Filme: 16 facadas (2023; Amazon Prime Video)   Jabás Fernando Laterza fernando.laterza@usp.br   Leticia Dáquer Twitter: @pacamanca Blog: www.pacamanca.com    Thiago Corrêa Twitter: @thiago_czz Parceria com Veste Esquerda: Agora tem camiseta do Pistolando direto no site da Veste Esquerda! Mas o código de desconto PISTOLA10 dá 10% de desconto na sua compra da nossa e de outras camisetas maneiríssimas esquerdopatas!   Parceria com Editora Boitempo: compre livros por esse link aqui pra gente ganhar uns trocados de comissão :)   Esse podcast é produzido pelo Estopim Podcasts. Precisa de ajuda pra fazer o seu podcast? Chega mais, que a gente te dá uma mãozinha.  Links do Pistolando www.pistolando.com contato@pistolando.com Twitter: @PistolandoPod Instagram: @PistolandoPod   Apóie o Pistolando no Catarse, no Patreon e agora também no PicPay. Se preferir fazer um pix, nossa chave é contato@pistolando.com   Descrição da capa: Foto comparando um pássaro em voo, acima, e um avião super aerodinâmico, embaixo. No alto, à esquerda, a logo do Pistolando, preta; ao lado, número e nome do episódio, também em preto. Centralizada na parte inferior, a logo da Estopim, preta.  

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

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Zach Anderson is the co-founder of Coordinape. In conversation with Matthew Monahan. Watch this episode on video: https://youtu.be/Ui-zmGufpHo Watch a preview: https://youtu.be/5VPmulhQpYM Coordinape: https://coordinape.com Zach's Twitter: https://twitter.com/fifthworldzach THE REGENERATION WILL BE FUNDED Ma Earth Website: https://maearth.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@maearthmedia Community Discord: https://maearth.com/community Podcast Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/theregeneration/feed.xml EPISODE RESOURCES “What is Work” video: https://youtu.be/q4jZ7zGQ1ag Biomimicry book by Janine Benyus: https://www.amazon.com/Biomimicry-Innovation-Inspired-Janine-Benyus/dp/0060533226 Joe Brewer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-brewer-4957925/ Crypto Sapiens podcast interview with Zach: https://youtu.be/lRMGSUIrkcQ Charles Eisenstein: https://charleseisenstein.org/ An Everyone Culture: https://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Culture-Deliberately-Developmental-Organization/dp/B01I8JXD62/ Reinventing Organizations book: https://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Organizations-Frederic-Laloux/dp/2960133501 Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth: https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/ Braiding Sweetgrass book: https://www.amazon.com/Braiding-Sweetgrass-Indigenous-Scientific-Knowledge/dp/1571311777/ Who Do We Choose To Be? book: https://www.amazon.com/Who-Choose-Second-Leadership-Restoring/dp/1523004738/ The Myth of Normal: https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Normal-Illness-Healing-Culture/dp/B09B83215L/ref=sr_1_1 This interview took place during ETHDenver 2023: https://www.ethdenver.com SOCIAL Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/maearth X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/maearthmedia Lenstube: https://lenstube.xyz/channel/maearth.lens Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maearthmedia/ Mirror: https://mirror.xyz/maearth.eth LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/maearth/ Lenster: https://lenster.xyz/u/maearth Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maearthcommunity TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@maearthmedia

On this week's episode, BJ talks with Scott Kelly, Partner, Architect & Sustainability Consultant and Drew Lavine, Partner & Director of Design at Re:Vision. Scott and Drew discuss the mission of Re:Vision, how sustainability and environmental concerns can be addressed, and how all of us can begin to incorporate eco-friendly design into our projects today. Resources mentioned: Catherine Mohr: “The tradeoffs of building green”: https://www.ted.com/talks/catherine_mohr_the_tradeoffs_of_building_green?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare“Mid-Cource Correction” by Ray Anderson: https://www.raycandersonfoundation.org/midcourse-correction-revisited/“Ecology of Commerce” by Paul Hawken: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/mml/ecology-commerce-declaration-sustainability“Biomimicry” by Janine Benyus: https://biomimicry.org/janine-benyus/“The Republic” by Plato: https://www.amazon.com/Republic-Plato/dp/1503379981Calls-to-action: Inspiring People and Places is brought to you by MCFA. Visit our website www.MCFAglobal.com and sign up for our weekly newsletter where we curate some of the top industry articles of the week and give you a dose of inspiration as you head into the weekend!  MCFA IS HIRING!!  If you or anyone you know are looking to work in the Planning, Project Development, Project Management, or Construction Management field, contact us through our website. Interns to Executives...we need great people to help us innovate and inspire, plan, develop and build our nation's infrastructure.  Check out our MUST FILL positions here https://mcfaglobal.com/careers/.  We reward the bold and the action oriented so if you don't see a position but think you are a fit...send us an email!  Learn more at www.MCFAGlobal.comAuthor: BJ Kraemer, MCFAKeywords: MCFA, Architecture, Construction, Engineering, Public Engineers, Military Engineers, United States Military Academy, Veteran Affairs, Development, Veteran, Military, SEC

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.

Bienvenue sur Aventure Humaine ! C'est lors d'un voyage en Inde que Brieuc Saffré a commencé à regarder autrement sa vie d'occidental en école de commerce. Après quelques expériences professionnelles, il a eu envie de faire autre chose. La vision, au départ, c'était de faire disparaître la notion de déchet telle que nous la pensons dans notre société. C'est ainsi que Wiithaa est née. Puis, au fil des ans, des scénographies pour se faire connaître et des expériences clients, cette vision a évolué. De fil en aiguilles, Wiithaa est devenue Circulab, agence de design circulaire. Aujourd'hui, Circulab propose des outils concrets et gratuits pour l'économie circulaire, mais aussi : des formations ; du conseil et du design ; des accompagnements, avec des experts du monde entier. Dans cet interview, Brieuc nous raconte comme sa société, Circulab, est devenue ce qu'elle est aujourd'hui. Mais il explique aussi : ce qu'est l'économie circulaire ; comment commencer à mettre un pied dedans, qu'on soit particulier ou professionnel ; que c'est urgent ; et que c'est possible, notamment avec des exemples d'entreprises fonctionnant en économie circulaire. Cet épisode d'Aventure Humaine, c'est une invitation au changement sans culpabilité, une proposition de fonctionnement plus vertueux et pérenne, mais avec des outils et exemple concrets ! TIMELINE : 00:22 : présentation 01:34 : ses premiers pas professionnels 12:45 : la place de son blog et sa rencontre avec le co-fondateur de son entreprise 15:13 : les débuts de Wiithaa 23:53 : comment et quand ils pivotent vers une autre vision 33:48 : outil open-source : situation, business model 40:10 : Circulab aujourd'hui 50:17 : le projet d'écriture du livre 55:40 : conseils pour une entreprise et 2 exemples en France 1:16:01 : conseils pour les particuliers 1:18:50 : les questions de la fin Avec Brieuc, nous avons parlé de : l'entreprise d'upcycling de bateaux Bathô ; l'entreprise de recyclage de l'urine humaine Toopi Organics, fondée par Mickaël Roes ; le livre « L'urine, de l'or liquide au jardin » de Renaud de Looze ; le livre « Thinking in Systems : A Primer » de Donella Meadows ; Timothée Parrique ; le livre « Biomimétisme - Quand la nature inspire des innovations durables » de Janine Benyus ; la chaîne Youtube d'Arthur Keller ; le livre « Civilisés à en mourir – Le prix du progrès » de Christopher Ryan ; le livre « Humanité - Une histoire optimiste » de Rutger Bregman. Cette émission est produite par Podcast Mania. Pour nous soutenir, tu peux déposer un commentaire et noter l'épisode juste ici. Cela nous aide énormément

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

Sarah Ichioka is co-author with Michael Pawlyn of 'Flourish' a rich, inspiring book that outlines key paradigm shifts for this time of planetary emergency.  Looking deeply into the web of life, Flourish proposes a bold, imaginative - and do-able - set of regenerative principles to transform how we design, make and manage our buildings and our communities. Sarah is an urbanist, curator, writer and podcast host.  Connecting cities, culture and ecology, she has been recognised as a World Cities Summit Young Leader, and one of the Global Public Interest Design 100.  She is founding director of the Singapore-based strategic consultancy 'Desire Lines' and is co-author, with Michael Pawlyn, of the book 'Flourish' and co-host with Michael of the Flourish podcast. In this expansive, incisive conversation, Sarah expands on the five paradigms she and Michael identified that are holding us back in the old 'business as usual' frame and the ways we can shift our world-view to new ways of thinking, being - and designing our lives.  Drawing on the work of foundational thinkers like Freya Matthews, Donella Meadows, Janine Benyus and Ronan Krznaric, plus existing communities such as the Los Angeles Eco Village, Sarah shows us that the ideas and actions are already in place, we just need to build them bigger, proving that, as Willam Gibson has said, the future is here, it's just unevenly distributed. Flourish book: https://www.flourish-book.comFlourish podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/flourish-systems-change/id1602779076Donella Meadows Leverage Points: https://donellameadows.org/a-visual-approach-to-leverage-points/Freya Matthews: http://www.freyamathews.netJay Griffiths 'Pip Pip': http://jaygriffiths.com/books/pip-pip/Ronan Krznaric 'The Good Ancestor' :https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-good-ancestor-how-to-think-long-term-in-a-short-term-world/9780753554517Deep Time Walk App: https://www.deeptimewalk.org/kit/app/Los Angeles Eco-Village: https://laecovillage.orgBuilt Environment Declares: https://builtenvironmentdeclares.comArchitects Climate Action Network: https://www.architectscan.org

In this episode, IDEO Chair and Co-CEO, Tim Brown, speaks to Joanna Choukier, RSA Director of Design and Innovation, Michael Pawlyn, architect and author of Biomimicry in Architecture, and David Wilkinson, VP of Agriculture and Dairy at Pepsico Europe, to explore the power of design to transform the system.This is second in a series of podcast episodes recorded at Summit 22 — the Foundation's flagship annual event — which brought together business leaders, policymakers, innovators, and global changemakers to explore how we can redesign our economy so that it regenerates, rather than destroys, the natural world.In this panel discussion, these leading designers explore how a regenerative circular economy requires a whole system shift from take, make, waste to one based on three principles: eliminate waste, circulate products and materials, and regenerate natural systems.This mindset sets a new goal across business, design, policy, finance, and other key intervention points in the economy that is transformative rather than incremental.What does it look like for businesses to compete on regenerative principles? And how do we scale up these new models?--Watch this and other sessions from Summit 22Learn more about the circular economy and the Ellen MacArthur FoundationListen to Ellen MacArthur, Janine Benyus and Kate Raworth in conversation with Lucy ParkerMichael Pawlyn appeared on the first ever episode of this podcast - listen to that here--Follow us on social media:LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Facebook

In this episode, we are joined by our very own three wise women — the Foundation's founder and chair of trustees, Ellen MacArthur, Doughnut Economics author and co-founder of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab, Kate Raworth, and the co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8, the world's first bio-inspired consultancy, Janine Benyus. This is first in a series of podcast episodes recorded at Summit 22 — the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's flagship annual event — which brought together business leaders, policymakers, innovators, and global changemakers to explore how we can redesign our economy so that it regenerates, rather than destroys, the natural world. In an inspiring conversation facilitated by Brunswick Group senior partner, Lucy Parker, Ellen, Kate, and Janine discuss, in Kate's words, the 'profound connections' between the circular economy, biomimicry, and her own doughnut economic model. Together, they explored the ways in which the three approaches offer a vision of a world that works for all — one that requires a mindset shift, from our current take, make, waste economy to one in which waste is eliminated, products and materials are circulated, and nature is regenerated. An economy that recognises that doing less harm simply isn't good enough, that we must work together to create solutions that actively improve the world we live in.–Watch this and other sessions from Summit 22Learn more about the circular economy and the Ellen MacArthur FoundationFind out more about biomimicry and the work of Janine BenyusDiscover more about Doughnut Economics and the work of Kate Raworth–Follow us on social media:LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Facebook

FrontierUncharted territory.Jamie is the founder and director of Biomimicry Frontiers, an award-winning design who's mission is to 'Make It Better.'Naturally.He trained with Janine Benyus who coined the term Biomimicry back-when.He's also working at B+H Architecture firm as Director of Biomimicry to help them to think and create within a Biomimetic Paradigm..Using Biomimicry to design your built environment can make them more attractive to clients/investors AND there's major cost savings in infrastructure in the long-term and engineering costs.Through measuring the ecological performance of a site, before and after, you can tell that some buildings (designed by yours truly) actually improve the site more than if they weren't to build on it.Metrics: Sequestering more carbon, producing more oxygen, reducing noise, reducing air pollution, water retention, temperature reduction and a few more.It's a Win-Win Paradigm..Thank you Jamie for harmonizing us with the natural world @biomimicryfrontiersBrighter futures available at Biomimicryfrontiers.com 

Biomimicry is a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies used by species alive today. The goal is to create products, processes, and policies — new ways of living — that solve our greatest design challenges sustainably. The Biomimicry Institute was founded in 2006 by Janine Benyus and Bryony Schwan to share nature's design lessons with the people who design and make our world, and empower people to create nature-inspired solutions for a healthy planet. Today we'll talk with the Executive Director of the Biomimicry Institute, Beth Rattner.

Biomimicry is a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies used by species alive today. The goal is to create products, processes, and policies — new ways of living — that solve our greatest design challenges sustainably. The Biomimicry Institute was founded in 2006 by Janine Benyus and Bryony Schwan to share nature's design lessons with the people who design and make our world, and empower people to create nature-inspired solutions for a healthy planet. Today we'll talk with the Executive Director of the Biomimicry Institute, Beth Rattner.

The genius of nature's design, recipes and principles is serving as the inspiration for redesigning human civilization. This Biomimicry revolution is spawning a next industrial revolution. Biomimicry masters Janine Benyus and Jay Harman illuminate the forefront of nature-inspired design, including human organization and the power of networks.

Hello, hello! Ved's discussion today is with his friend, his teacher, and one of the world's most influential biomimicry educators, Dr. Dayna Baumeister. Dr. Baumeister's work alongside her Biomimicry Institute co-founder, Janine Benyus, has helped reshape the systems of fortune 500 companies and mold the minds of future biomimetic practitioners through a pioneering master's program with Arizona State University. To hear her speak is to know her fierce commitment to both the philosophy behind biomimicry and the many lessons humanity can learn from nature's design. Good Garbage Episode 5 Presented by Pakka

Saskia is de enige gecertificeerde biomimicry-expert in Nederland. En daarmee de vooraper op dit gebied. Ze heeft voor diverse Fortune 500 bedrijven gewerkt en katalyseert innovatie door anderen o.a. designstrategieën uit de natuur te laten ontdekken, deze verder te ontwikkelen en vervolgens te vertalen naar echte probleemoplossers voor veel uitdagingen waar elk bedrijf en overheid mee te maken heeft. Handig in deze transitie-tijd. De olifant staat  deze keer niet in de kamer, maar ik neem je kort mee de natuur in. Veel luisterplezier!Website van Saskia: https://www.biomimicrynl.orgNog een dikke tip: https://asknature.orgEen van de presentaties van Janine Benyus, de vooraper van Saskia, waar zij haar opleidingen deed: https://www.thezooooo.com/videos/tips-tricks-from-nature/imagine-designing-spring/Tentoonstelling over biomimicry: https://www.np-zuidkennemerland.nl/25521/nieuws/archief/nieuwe-tentoonstelling-spechten-op-de-fiets(check vooraf nog even of de tentoonstelling nog is, tenslotte loopt de podcast vaak langer.)Wie is Irene Koel?Gepokt en gemazeld toegepast, creatieve strateeg. Ik help bedrijven en organisaties bij ontwikkeling van strategie en marketinginnovatie, zodat eigenheid ontstaat en van daaruit relevante ontwikkeling. Ik start daarbij altijd vanuit een sterke merkidentiteit en het creatief concept dat daaruit volgt. Het draait tenslotte om authenticiteit. Ik werk graag samen met het team, zodat de creativiteit in de cultuur wakker gekust wordt. Waardevolle groei ontstaat altijd van binnenuit. Ik geef daarnaast lezingen (over creativiteit en innovatie) en les. Ik doe vrijwilligerswerk in India om banen te creëren voor vrouwen, ik investeer in sociale bedrijven en zit in een paar besturen of ‘Raden van Advies'. En ben voorzitter van een EFFIE-jury.Wil je meer weten over MonkeyTalk, MonkeyDo, ons innovatie- spelprogramma, over de voorapers, over Irene Koel? Kijk dan op www.thezooooo.com, daar vind je alles.Of check en volg Irene op LinkedIn. Waarom MonkeyTalk?Met MonkeyTalk wil ik graag je creativiteit opporren en aanwakkeren. Want iedereen is creatief en de wereld heeft, in deze transitie-fase, jouw creativiteit hard nodig. Met MonkeyTalk deel ik mijn ervaring en netwerk, wil ik je inspireren en concrete tips geven. Ik hoop dat je hersenen even een ommetje maken als je de aflevering luistert. Om daarna weer fris, fruitig en creatief de wereld in te gaan. Met deze aangewakkerde creativiteit ben je dan zelf ook een inspirerende vooraper, zoals we dat bij The Zooooo noemen. Daar hoop ik op. En vraag ik je vooral te doen. Als je je abonneert op MonkeyTalk krijg je automatisch een melding als er een nieuwe aflevering is. En het is natuurlijk heel fijn als je MonkeyTalk deelt in je netwerk en heel veel sterretjes geeft. Dank!Wil je vriend worden van MonkeyTalk? Geweldig, heel graag. Deze MonkeyTalks (nu al zo'n 28 uur luisterplezier) met ervaring, inspiratie en dikke tips krijg je allemaal gratis. Ik investeer en geef graag door, maar als je wilt steunen is dat altijd fijn en het voelt best eerlijk.Hoe? Kijk op https://petje.af/monkeytalkVoor 3 euro per maand, maar je mag ook zelf het bedrag bepalen. Of je kan eenmalig meteen het jaarbedrag doneren. Bij 100 petjes ga ik iets leuks doen voor de petjes. Reuze dank!

Here on Candid Conversations we talk to changemakers about what is happening in their industry right now. In this episode we talk to Lauren Tan and Liz Soutar about: - Role of creativity in business - Making space for creativity - Creative constraints If you haven't already, follow Candid Conversations or subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts. Host: Caitlin Wood Audio By: Adrian Chin Quan For enquiries about the series please contact innovation@deloitte.com.au  ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Steven Johnson https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from?language=en Tony Fadell https://www.ted.com/talks/tony_fadell_the_first_secret_of_design_is_noticing?language=en HBR: The best managers balance analytical and emotional intelligence https://hbr.org/2020/06/the-best-managers-balance-analytical-and-emotional-intelligence Janine Benyus https://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_biomimicry_in_action?language=en Frans Johannson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRAkko6WZbs Cox review on Creativity in Business (report) https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20130129110402/http:/www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/Cox_review-foreword-definition-terms-exec-summary.pdf © 2021 Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. DISCLAIMER: This communication contains general information only, and none of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (“DTTL”), its global network of member firms or their related entities (collectively, the “Deloitte organisation”) is, by means of this communication, rendering professional advice or services. Before making any decision or taking any action that may affect your finances or your business, you should consult a qualified professional adviser.  No representations, warranties or undertakings (express or implied) are given as to the accuracy or completeness of the information in this communication, and none of DTTL, its member firms, related entities, employees or agents shall be liable or responsible for any loss or damage whatsoever arising directly or indirectly in connection with any person relying on this communication. DTTL and each of its member firms, and their related entities, are legally separate and independent entities.

Some of the best minds on the planet are busy cataloguing possible solutions to the crisis of climate chaos. Scientists, entrepreneurs and educators on technology's cutting edge offer a broad array of bio-based solutions that are already working to transition us to a truly sustainable civilization. Biomimics Janine Benyus, Stephan Dewar, David Orr and Jay Harman offer a smorgasbord of startling solutions based on nature's genius.

Atlantis II: “Rainbow Bridge” (@ 0:00) — Cahors — Avignon — Nature and wild places — Dragon Lore II: “Sanctuary” (@ 2:02) — Listening — Sound is a miracle — Field recordings — Studies — Learning — Your own voice — Confidence — The best way to learn — Pleasure in the doing — Teachers — David Lynch — Rules vs. principles — John Cage: Silence (1961) — Freedom — Atlantis: The Lost Tales: “Spitzberg” (@ 12:20) — The way Mr. Lynch learned screenwriting — Restrictive rules — Surprises — Changes in mood — Season 3 of Twin Peaks — Current reading and films — Many interests — Edward Bernays — Rules of propaganda — Short film Propaganda — Noam Chomsky — Poetry — Technical things — Janine Benyus and biomimicry — Ken Loach — Lars von Trier — Also some Hollywood movies — Dracula: “Flying Over the Mountains” (@ 20:50) — Koyaanisqatsi (1982) — Baraka (1992) — Story told without words — Director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass — Collaborations — Not an effort but a joy — Stéphane Picq — Early computer music — Cryo's Dune (1992) — Atlantis: The Lost Tales: “Crystal Winds” (@ 27:30) — Instrument collection — Ireland, Turkey, Indonesia… — Male and female voices — Atlantis II: “The River” (@ 30:44) — Studies in singing, conducting, composing, and more — Alyssa Landry and Gaëlle Zydian — The end of Atlantis II — Two flutes — Atlantis II: “Child” (@ 34:12) — Invisible links that music can reveal — Utopias and new worlds — Architecture — A full ecosystem — The flying ships — Great musical challenge — Pythagore / Pythagoras — Atlantis: The Lost Tales: “Awakening” (@ 39:19) — Atlantis II: “Tepec” (@ 41:41) — Caves in Southern France — Stalactica — Isturitz and Oxocelhaya — Prehistoric — Concretions — MADe In series — Bamboo — Metal — Stone — Lithophones — Senses — Bamboo: “Flowering Mystery” (@ 47:39) — Longevity — Tuned stalactites — Perfect fifth — Cave paintings — Elegance — Essence — Engravings — Animating images — The impulse to do art — Bows — Communing — Spirits — Atlantis Evolution: “Worlds Beyond” (@ 55:19) — Relief paintings — Places chosen by sound — Echolocation — Resonance — Iégor Reznikoff — Reverberation — Fundamental — Resonant frequency — Atlantis Evolution: “Ancient Shells” (@ 1:03:05) — The spirit — World music — Earlier attitudes to music — Béla Bartók — Debussy and the Javanese gamelan at the World Fair in Paris — Tchaikovsky, the celeste, and “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” — Obscura: “Temptacium” (@ 1:09:57) — Will our music last? — Political problem — Atlantis II: “Highlands” (@ 1:12:26) — Gregorian chant — Songs like “Greensleeves” or “Scarborough Fair” — Cultural links — Prejudices — Clarity and elegance — Language that lasts — Negative space — Ray Bradbury: “The Lake” — Simplicity vs. complexity — Obscura: “Lux Perpetua part 2” (@ 1:18:13) — Silence and space — Atlantis II: “The Tower in the Well” (@ 1:20:26) — What does or can art do? — Art is both given and received — Positive and negative impact — Atlantis Evolution: “Memories of Atlantis” (@ 1:23:06) — New approach — When are you happiest? — Atlantis: The Lost Tales: “La Lune” (@ 1:25:51)

Guido de Croon is an engineer and Professor of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) at TU Delft who combines computer vision and robotics to create the world's smallest flapping wing autonomous flying robots. In this episode of Create the Future, we speak with Guido about the challenges of miniaturising insect-sized MAVs, and explore the role drones could play in the future of spaceflight, emergency rescue, and—considering the uncertain future of pollinators—precision horticulture. We delve into the world of vision based navigation and obstacle avoidance, discuss the challenges of swarm robotics, and contemplate what roboticists can learn from insect intelligence. To hear more about bio-inspired engineering innovations, check out our recent episode with biomimicry expert, Janine Benyus. New episodes of ‘Create the Future: An Engineering Podcast' every other Tuesday. www.qeprize.org/podcasts Follow @qeprize on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook

A partir de la arquitectura que imita las formas naturales o del CRISR, que ha revolucionado la edición genética, reflexionamos sobre la compleja relación entre la ciencia, la tecnología y la naturaleza en el siglo XXI. AUTORES CITADOS: Leonardo Da Vinci, Antoni Gaudí, Jorge Wagensberg, Carl Sagan, John Berger, Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg, George Basalla, Jussi Parikka, Francisco Mogica, Tomás Libertiny, David Benjamin, Neri Oxman, Janine Benyus, William McDonough, Nicolas Bourriaud, Tomás Saraceno. Para seguir leyendo: La rebelión de las formas o cómo preservar cuando la incertidumbre aprieta, de Jorge Wagensberg (Tusquets). Una grieta en la creación: CRISPR, la edición génica y el increíble poder de controlar la evolución,  de Jennifer A. Doudna y Samuel H. Sternberg (Alianza Editorial). The Evolution of Technology, de George Basalla (Cambridge University Press). Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology, de Jussi Parikka (University of Minnesota Press).

Erin gives voice to Interface's conscience, ensuring that strategy and goals are in sync with its aggressive sustainability vision established more than 20 years ago. Today, Interface has evolved its thinking to go beyond doing less harm to creating positive impacts, not just for Interface and the flooring industry, but for the world at large. Erin led the company to unveil a new mission in 2016 – Climate Take Back, tackling the single biggest threat facing humanity: global climate change. This mission is focused on creating a path for Interface and others to reverse global warming, not just reduce carbon emissions. As CSO, Erin leads a global team that provides technical assistance and support to this audacious goal and the company's global business, addressing sustainability at all levels – from operations and management, to employees and customers, and in policy forums. Erin and her team also develop industry-leading approaches to measurement, driving transparency and innovation in the field of sustainability. Erin Joins Sustainable Nation to Discuss: Creating carbon negative products (without offsets) and this impact on the built environment How to balance the sustainability of a product with performance and cost Expanding carbon negativity throughout not only products, but within Interface's own buildings and operations Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) as a tool for making better choices in building A dive into Interface's Net-Works Program and other innovative waste diversion programs Advice and recommendations for sustainability leaders Erin's Final Five Question Responses What is one piece of advice you would give other sustainability professionals that might help them in their careers? I would say building on the idea of networks. I always say to people starting out in the profession: pilot projects are your friend. We really have an opportunity as sustainability professionals. Every day we're innovating, we're trying to help our businesses do something new and different often in opposition to what has been a traditional business model. So I've really had success in my career and sort of de-risked that for partners by saying, let's try out this innovative, new idea that flies in the face of how we've normally done it and delivers value for more stakeholders than just investors. Let's enter into that with a pilot project approach. You'd be surprised how much that de-risks what's about to happen and makes people feel more comfortable entering in. At the same time, it sets a tone for this as a place where we're going to learn about how we do things differently. What are you most excited about right now in the world of sustainability? I'm most excited about the carbon revolution happening in buildings. I really feel very optimistic that we can make progress on decarbonizing the economy and really come up with removal solutions in the next decade. I see it happening here. I see it happening in the built environment. I think over the last two years, the conversation around carbon removal and the technologies- whether it be on the regenerative agriculture end or on the opposite end of that spectrum, the really high-tech carbon removal- I feel like every day there's some new announcement about a new technology or a new way that we can harvest a nature based systems to remove carbon from the atmosphere in really innovative ways. I really believe it's going to be a very exciting next 10 years on carbon. What is one book you would recommend sustainability leaders read? You can tell that I'm in sustainability because I obviously appreciate the natural world and I find a lot of value and connection in that in my personal life. So I would say one of the best books I've ever read is Biomimicry by Janine Benyus. You don't have to be a sustainability person, but understanding how to look at nature as an innovator and seeing those examples of where designers and others have tapped into nature's genius to solve design challenges, organizational challenges, it's a really inspiring, interesting book. What are some of your favorite resources or tools that really help you in your work? I like to listen to Nori's podcasts and read things from Nori. I follow Carbon180 and I think they have really fantastic resources. Project Drawdown has just released something really exciting called Climate Solutions 101. It's a fantastic series of six new videos that tell stories of how we are working every day to reverse global warming. Project Drawdown and Drawdown- fantastic resources, and they have a whole bunch of new things coming out. I would say those three are the things that I probably look at, use, refer people to on a weekly basis.  Where can our listeners go to learn more about you and the work being done at Interface? There's a fantastic place that they can visit, which is just the Interface website www.interface.com. You can learn more about Interface's mission, you can learn more about carbon negative products. You can follow Interface on LinkedIn, and you can also find me on LinkedIn - Erin Meezan, and you can find me on Twitter @Erinmeez.

Janine Benyus has a message for engineers: Look to nature for inspiration. Biomimicry is the practice of learning from and replicating nature's forms, processes, and ecosystems to help solve some of the world’s most complex design challenges. By looking to the natural world and its extensive database of evolutionary solutions, we can improve the way we engineer everything from skyscrapers to solar panels. In this episode of Create the Future, Janine explains how she has helped some of the most successful companies draw inspiration from 3.8 billion years of evolution (or “R&D”). We explore the unexpected and everyday applications of biomimicry, discuss the important role of biomimicry in slowing climate change, and Janine encourages engineers to discover how their design challenges may have already been solved by nature. New episodes of ‘Create the Future: An Engineering Podcast’ every other Tuesday. www.qeprize.org/podcasts

What is your ‘covid inspired' nature re-connection story? In this week's #earthconversepodcast, communication coach and facilitator Martina Tadli articulates what many people have experienced in this ‘covid time'..a story of reconnecting with nature. Even those who don't have easy access to it. In doing so, she reminds us of the value of small steps of attention and gratitude. And she gives voice to her collaboration with Catherine Andrews. Together they have created Natural Resourcing to help leaders and professionals thrive at work, through engaging with nature. And rather than closing things down, we open things up at the end – where she beautifully shares deeply personal stories of her own nature connection, including of ancestral healing. And an invitation to try solo time in nature. EPISODE EXTRAS Martina's website and writings: www.martinatadli.de Martina's LinkedIn profile link https://www.linkedin.com/in/martina-tadli-99ba228a/detail/recent-activity/shares/ Catherine Andrew's LinkedIn profile link https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-andrews-91a34611/ Article on Natural Resourcing https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6791364894865289216/ Janine Benyus, Biomimicry: Innovation inspired by nature Roman Krznaric: The good ancestor - how to think longterm in a shortterm world Good Ancestor Podcast http://laylafsaad.com/good-ancestor-podcast From the Earth Converse leadership blog: https://earthconverse.com/at-home-in-nature/ Your True Nature Coaching Programme (where Martina and I met) https://gfconsulting.org/programs/#true NEW HERE? ABOUT EARTH CONVERSE AND I Hi, I am Penelope Mavor, podcast host and founder of Earth Converse a nature-based leadership collaborative helping leaders have the conversations they need to: with themselves, each other and the earth. Please get in touch for executive coaching and leadership development programmes. https://linktr.ee/EarthConverse Email: info@earthconverse.com And the wind, the trees...

Samuel Cord Stier talks with me about his book - Engineering Education for the Next Generation: A Nature Inspired Approach. This is episode 358 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Samuel Cord Stier is the Founding Director of The Center for Learning With Nature, a non-profit organization providing STEM curricula and teacher training founded on the captivating power and modern importance of the natural world. You can find more information at www.LearningWithNature.org. A National Science Foundation Fellow in STEM curricula design, Sam was appointed to the NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards) review team by the State of Montana's Department of Education in 2012.  An ecologist by training, Sam has been an environmental consultant for The Nature Conservancy, WWF, Monterey Bay Aquarium, World Bank and others, and founded and directed the Youth and Public Education Programs at the Biomimicry Institute (started by author Janine Benyus).  In addition to directing The Center for Learning with Nature, Sam also teaches bio-inspired design at the College of Engineering at Texas Tech University and at Otis College of Art and Design. Today we are going to talk about his book - Engineering Education for the Next Generation: A Nature-Inspired Approach. Lots to learn today! This is an amazing conversation! Thanks for listening! Could you do me a favor? Please open the podcast app that you are listening to me on and would you rate and review the podcast? Please? That would be Awesome. Thanks! By the way, don't forget to go to my affiliate sponsor Boon's Titanium Rings at www.boonerings.com. When you order a ring use my code - TLLK12 - at checkout to get 10% off and help the podcast get a commission. Thanks!!!   Connect and Learn More: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393713770 https://wwnorton.com/author/22633 https://www.learningwithnature.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-stier-9739195/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cats-help-astronauts-space-sam-stier/ Affiliate Info: Check out Teaching Learning Leading K12's Affiliate Sponsor - Boone's Titanium Rings. At check out use my code TLLK12 and get 10% off your order and help Teaching Learning Leading K12 with a commission. Boon's Titanium Rings www.boonerings.com   Length - 48:40

Joe Brewer is a true polymath and lover of Earth! He is executive director of the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution and the founder of the Earth Regenerators network, a study group for restoring planetary health and avoiding human extinction. He is the author of The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth(which will be self-published soon), where he brings together the fields of complexity, Earth Systems, cognitive science, and cultural evolution. Show notes: * causes of the planetary predicament — difference between learning and instinct * evolution of the human brain and technology, especially language * environmental fitness using technology and building on what came before * human ability to learn culture that can temporarily disconnect from the nonhuman environment (creating a temporary buffer) * disconnected in causality in our short term thinking = displaced causality * if we are to survive this time we will need to spread survival out in space, in time, and in causation * a future that no one can see but somehow still move toward it = we become the past of some future * collapse through the metaphor of hospice * complex sequence of collapses of subsystems of the body * civilizations as one long term living system, example of COVID and shut down as systems * collapse is plural * OPEC oil crisis in 1980 * wealth accumulation is like cancer * collapse of the US economy has been happening for 40 years * Confucius “If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. ” and if you’re planning for 1,000 years grow a forest * Aristotle and teleological thinking * the original cathedral is forest building * cultural evolution and design of culture * population genetics * cultural traits * future fitness is our design challenge * bringing sacred relationships to our environment is an essential ingredient * cumulative culture = we can build on culture * cultural scaffolding or developmental scaffolding * David Sloan Wilson and wise management of cultural evolution * regeneration is a dynamic pattern * Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela * autopoiesis = self generated self expression * Janine Benyus and the Biomimicry Institute * real sustainability is regeneration * we need to work with living systems * limits to growth * Joe and his family decisions to move to Barichara, Colombia * having a daughter in this time * what do children need in this time? * our daughter is learning that what normal people do is bring rivers back to life and grow forests * Earth Regenerators Network * regenerating at the bioregional level * local living economies * 97% of our history we lived in small hunter-gatherer tribes evolving with nature * should we humans be here or not? * there is no singular human culture * we (humans) get to decide if we stick around! * without enough complexity and diversity in a food web it will collapse * loss of too much non human species and humans go away too' * should there be too many humans or balance and diversity of life? * “we need to deserve to be here" * The Kogi and pagamentos * debt of gratitude to Tierra Madre * gratitude releases hormones of pleasure * Paul Cherfuka’s addition to the stages of grief: the gift * you grieve because you care * to regenerate land we have to feel what has been destroyed * an ability to love that has no end * The true evolutionary adaptation for humans is teamwork * Your medicine is what you give, it’s your genius * we are the medicine if we realized we are the Earth loving itself * how to live in a landscape - to live in a place you love so much you will give your body to it * where should my body rest? Support Joe: https://www.patreon.com/joe_brewer The Earth Regenerators: https://earth-regenerators.mn.co/ Joe on Medium: https://medium.com/@joe_brewer Support the ATR podcast: https://www.patreon.com/astemperaturesrise Music is “The Light Within” by Gavin Luke

La naturaleza lleva aquí más tiempo que nosotros, tal vez ella pueda tener la respuesta a muchos de nuestros problemas, ¿por qué no preguntarle?... Y también hablamos y aclaramos un poco del último episodio. "Janine Benyus" es la persona que tiene la TED Talks que habla más en detalle sobre este tema. link: https://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_biomimicry_in_action

Tune in as we talk with Janine Benyus about how she has helped some of the world's top companies design for the future by drawing inspiration from 3.8 billion years of nature's blueprint. Benyus has worked with companies like Boeing, Colgate-Palmolive, Nike, General Electric, Herman Miller, HOK architects, IDEO, Interface, Natura, Procter and Gamble, Levi's, Kohler, and General Mills to create sustainable product designs. In 2010, BusinessWeek named Janine one of the World's Most Influential Designers, and her work in biomimicry has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Newsweek, Esquire, The Economist, Time, Wired, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Nature, and more.

A recentWall Street Journal article talks about how to survive the pandemic by taking cues from nature. Naturally, of course.  As it turns out, wildfires, pine cones, armadillos, geckos, and mantis shrimp hold the key to out coming out of the pandemic with our heads on straight—and a new found passion for our careers.  The idea that we can innovate by observing and copying nature is a concept popularized by Janine Benyus, an American natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author. It applies to new products, such as adhesives inspired by the sticky feet of the gecko and underwater cameras suggested by the eyes of the mantis shrimp.  But the natural world offers so much more than simply ideas for product design. It can also offer insight into how to keep up with quickly changing markets, cooperating with peers, and fostering resilience—each which are relevant to every one of us, no matter where we are in our career growth. Many of the roughly eight million species on Earth have weathered times of intense disruption—something human beings are experiencing now. The non-human species have developed strategies to help them not just adapt to harsh conditions, but to thrive. Strategies we can learn from.  The aforementioned article looked at five ways organisms respond to periods of extreme adversity—and the insights they hold that are valuable to you. And that is what this episode of the Spin Sucks podcast is about: what you can learn from nature to pull yourself—and your career or your business—out of the pandemic. Links Mentioned In This Episode What We Can Learn from Nature Janine Benyus Marketing In the Round Spin Sucks (the book) Spin Sucks Academy Spin Sucks Community

The genius of nature’s design, recipes and principles is serving as the inspiration for redesigning human civilization. This Biomimicry revolution is spawning a next industrial revolution. Biomimicry masters Janine Benyus and Jay Harman illuminate the forefront of nature-inspired design, including human organization and the power of networks. For more information about this show visit: https://bioneers.org/sharkskin-hippo-sweat-and-the-wood-wide-web-from-flat-earth-to-whole-earth-thinking-janine/

In our conversation with Daniel, we talk about the interplays between technology and landscape, between the virtual and the analogue world, and we explore what kind of new experiments and institutions that may emerge — and what new constituencies will likely gain a key role in organising at scale — for the re-regionalisation of the economy, which is such an important step of society’s regeneration.How to find and support Daniel’s work:> Medium Blog: https://medium.com/@designforsustainability > Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DanielChristianWahl?fan_landing=true > Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrDCWahl > LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-christian-wahl-phd-51a54616/ > Regeneration rising Youtube conversations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBxHnVsuus > Facebook groups: https://www.facebook.com/regenerativecultures/, https://www.facebook.com/Ecological-Consciousness-567337650286414/, https://www.facebook.com/groups/920150431523616/about/ Mentions and references:> Daniel Wahl, Midwives of the Regeneration: On the fertile edges of the more beautiful world, https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/midwives-of-the-regeneration-on-the-fertile-edges-of-the-more-beautiful-world-4a28a9c6496f > Daniel Wahl, Salutogenic Cities & Bioregional Regeneration (Part I of II), https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/salutogenic-cities-bioregional-regeneration-part-i-of-ii-2772a13bad9a > Jung’s cognitive functions, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungian_cognitive_functions > Joanna Macy, https://www.joannamacy.net/main > Janine Benyus: “life creates conditions conducive to life”, https://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_biomimicry_s_surprising_lessons_from_nature_s_engineers/transcript?language=en > Ecolise: https://www.ecolise.eu/ > Planetary Health Alliance, https://www.planetaryhealthalliance.org/mission > Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, https://www.amazon.com/Unsettling-America-Culture-Agriculture/dp/0871568772 > Regenesis Group: https://regenesisgroup.com/ > Bayo Akomolafe: “times are urgent so let’s slow down” http://bayoakomolafe.net/project/the-times-are-urgent-lets-slow-down/ > Rebel Wison, Sense-Making the Coronavirus outbreak, with Jamie Wheal, Diane Musho Hamilton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKDWmKL7xCk > Yuk Hui, Cosmotechnics as Cosmopolistics, https://www.e-flux.com/journal/86/161887/cosmotechnics-as-cosmopolitics/ > Thích Nhất Hạnh (interbeing): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%BA%A1nh  Music by liosound.Recorded on April 06th 

Tune in as we talk with Janine Benyus about how she has helped some of the world's top companies design for the future by drawing inspiration from 3.8 billion years of nature's blueprint. Benyus has worked with companies like Boeing, Colgate-Palmolive, Nike, General Electric, Herman Miller, HOK architects, IDEO, Interface, Natura, Procter and Gamble, Levi's, Kohler, and General Mills to create sustainable product designs. In 2010, BusinessWeek named Janine one of the World's Most Influential Designers, and her work in biomimicry has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Newsweek, Esquire, The Economist, Time, Wired, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Nature, and more.

Biomimicry is a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies used by species alive today. The goal is to create products, processes, and policies — new ways of living — that solve our greatest design challenges sustainably. The Biomimicry Institute was founded in 2006 by Janine Benyus and Bryony Schwan to share nature's design lessons with the people who design and make our world, and empower people to create nature-inspired solutions for a healthy planet. Today we'll talk with the Executive Director of the Biomimicry Institute, Beth Rattner.

Biomimicry is a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies used by species alive today. The goal is to create products, processes, and policies — new ways of living — that solve our greatest design challenges sustainably. The Biomimicry Institute was founded in 2006 by Janine Benyus and Bryony Schwan to share nature's design lessons with the people who design and make our world, and empower people to create nature-inspired solutions for a healthy planet. Today we'll talk with the Executive Director of the Biomimicry Institute, Beth Rattner.

Featuring interviews with Biomimicry 3.8's co-founder Janine Benyus, and Walmart sustainability specialist Zack Freeze. Plus, Dow's global sustainability director Haley Lowry is passionate about reducing plastic waste.

Our guest in this podcast episode is Dr. Dayna Baumeister, a researcher, consultant, and educator in the field of biomimicry. She is the co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8., a project that trains change-makers in sustainable design principles inspired by nature’s forms, processes, and ecosystems. Dayna and her business partner Janine Benyus have developed the biomimicry movement as a response to the world’s sustainability problems. In this episode we talk about how we can learn from nature to be more resilient and self-sustainable, raise better adapted kids, and adopt the everyday practices to improve our chances of overcoming the climate and economic challenges ahead. Show notes: http://www.futurethinkers.org/109   The Future Thinkers Members portal is live! Get access to our in-depth courses, group sensemaking calls & more. We're doing a launch contest where you can win 6 months of member access + 1 month supply of Qualia Nootropic Energy. Go to http://futurethinkers.org/giveaway  & enter to win

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.

Erin gives voice to Interface’s conscience, ensuring that strategy and goals are in sync with its aggressive sustainability vision established more than 20 years ago. Today, Interface has evolved its thinking to go beyond doing less harm to creating positive impacts, not just for Interface and the flooring industry, but for the world at large. Erin led the company to unveil a new mission in 2016 – Climate Take Back, tackling the single biggest threat facing humanity: global climate change. This mission is focused on creating a path for Interface and others to reverse global warming, not just reduce carbon emissions. As CSO, Erin leads a global team that provides technical assistance and support to this audacious goal and the company’s global business, addressing sustainability at all levels – from operations and management, to employees and customers, and in policy forums. Erin and her team also develop industry-leading approaches to measurement, driving transparency and innovation in the field of sustainability, while also capturing successes as the company nears its Mission Zero targets in 2020. Erin Joins Sustainable Nation to Discuss: Interface's Climate Take Back program and aligning corporate sustainability programs with what the world needs What stakeholders are expecting from a 20-plus year leader in sustainability Net Positive and moving beyond traditional corporate sustainability and CSR Advice and recommendations for sustainability leaders Highlights: How are expectations shifting for what it means to be a company leading in sustainability? In a good way, I think a lot of our stakeholders are expecting, not just Interface but other companies, to raise their level of ambition. I think it comes on 25 years of dialogue about what sustainable business is, reducing impact, companies making incremental steps and some really good progress, but then the rest of us observing that the planet isn't really in a much better place. So, we're hearing, whether it's potential employees, current employees or customers, that ambitions need to be higher and that there's an expectation that companies should be solving larger sustainability challenges than just their own. A great place to see this playing out is in the Globe Scan Sustainability Leaders Survey that gets published annually. It asks people in universities, people in business, people in NGO organizations what they expect of businesses. You can see that the expectation is getting higher in terms of businesses having more aggressive approaches, but we also see that anecdotally. We had a new CEO come to Interface in 2016 and one of the first things we did was have a conversation with him about not just where we were on achieving the goals Ray Anderson set 25 years ago, but also our future ambition. We surveyed all of our employees at Interface, and even that exercise let us know that our own employees within the business had much bigger ambitions for where Interface needed to go. So, building on that, we've been able to really accelerate our ambition and in 2017 issue a new challenge and a new mission for the business. But I think it's something every business needs to be looking at. What is our current approach to sustainability? What are we really trying to solve and isn't ambitious enough? It's great that we are starting to see movement from leaders like yourselves where incremental reductions in energy, water and emissions just aren't enough anymore. We need to do more. More companies are using those words like "positive," "carbon positive," "regenerative" and actually using business as a force for good, as the B Corp world would say. So, what does this mean for your business and new approaches within Interface? I think what it really meant for us, first, was setting a bold next step. Really putting out the next mission for the company and getting away from the traditional CSR or sustainable business language of just framing that mission within the context of your business. So, not just saying that Interface wants to be carbon neutral, which by the way we achieved in 2018 for all of the products in the whole business, but actually framing the mission in terms of the problem we wanted to solve. In 2016, Interface publicly said the next mission for Interface and the business is reversing global warming. We wanted to get out of that whole language of CSR commitments, incremental change and carbon neutral business. We wanted to align the mission of our business with the problem that needs to get solved in the world. I think it's a really important shift in language and in thinking. So we said that in 2016, the next step in sustainability is reversing global warming. We call it the Climate Take Back and we're going to get the business really focused on how we do this. Obviously, the first question that comes after that is, "How's a 5,000 person, billion dollar business actually going to reverse global warming?" I think the answer is, we're going to do what we can do in our business to sequester more carbon than we emit and to make products that do the same whether they end up getting called carbon negative or carbon positive or climate positive or any of the new labels out there. The ambition will be to first do it in our business. This is a huge global challenge. So, what else do we need to do as part of that business strategy to achieve the mission of reversing global warming? We have to double down on engaging every one of our employees to do something in their personal lives. The third part of it is we have to influence everyone else, not just our supply chain, not just our immediate customer base, but we really have to influence other companies to raise their level of ambition and shift their corporate targets from a reduction, or net zero, to reversing global warming. So, if we really want to live into this kind of bold commitment we've made for ourselves, this shift to positive, it actually means doing a lot more to influence other companies. I think that's one of the big lessons. In the last 20 years, sustainability has been focused on businesses just reducing the impacts of their immediate operations and their supply chains, right? But how many of us have really deeply invested in saying we want every employee to start taking real action at home? Or, we want every single customer we interact with to have a deeper understanding of what they can do to reverse global warming. So, it's a huge ambition that we've put on ourselves, but I think directionally, it's where not just Interface needs to go, but the rest of the business world does as well. What is one piece of advice you would give other sustainability professionals that might help them in their careers? Think about developing your skills as being an advocate. I think a lot of people think about getting a science background or getting a business background, and I have found over my like 15 plus year career in sustainable business, that you end up becoming the biggest advocate for sustainability in your business. So, the ability to make effective arguments, having a communication style that's pretty clear and direct and being able to find a way to harness your passion in a way that persuades senior leaders in the business, customers and other people in the business to really follow you, is really important. So, think about what it is that you can do to develop yourself into a really effective advocate. What are you most excited about right now in the world of sustainability? I'm super excited to see how companies are applying this idea of net positive and whether it's pilot projects like our Networks Project, whether it's work that Unilever is doing, there's just some really exciting examples of how businesses are raising their level of ambition and trying it out through really innovative partnerships that are having amazing impacts in the world. What is one book you'd recommend sustainability leaders read? There's so many. I think one of my favorite books is Ishmael, which was written by Daniel Quinn. It's not a new book. It's been out for at least 25 years. It's a really good one about resetting your mindset about how we think about business and the natural world as being quite separate, or even how we think about humans and the natural world as being quite separate. It's a really good read. What are some of your favorite resources or tools that really help you in your work? Some days I wished that I had had the benefit of being able to go through some of the really cool programs that exist right now for people to develop degrees or areas of focus in sustainable business. So for example, Arizona State University has some amazing programs now for undergraduates to get degrees in sustainability. There are also really great emerging MBA programs. The University of Vermont has a really innovative program that I serve on the advisory board of that's called SIMBA and it's a sustainable intra-preneurship MBA. I secretly wish that I were of the age now where I could participate in that because I think those are some of the best tools around. In terms of tools or how do to get the best, most energizing sense of where we're going, I do attend business conferences like Sustainable Brands and gatherings like that because I find that that's a really great place to stay connected to what's emerging and what's happening. One other thing we do here at Interface is we maintain this environmental advisory board that we internally call the Eco Dream Team. Outside, we call it our environmental advisory board. Spending time with those people like Paul Hawkin and Janine Benyus is incredibly valuable. They are kind of a continual source of innovative ideas and inspiration. If you don't have an eco advisory board, finding ways to interact with some of these leading lights in the movement and finding a way to interact with those guys is always a great way to kind of get inspired and be challenged and think about what's beyond your immediate focus. Where can people go to learn more about you and the work being done at Interface? They can go to the Interface website: www.Interface.com. You can read all about Climate Take Back and what we're doing to achieve that mission. About Sustridge Sustridge is a sustainability consulting firm providing consulting in sustainability strategy development, GHG emissions calculating and management, zero waste planning and guidance in TRUE Zero Waste, B Corp, LEED and Carbon Neutral certification.

John A. Lanier joined the Ray C. Anderson Foundation as Executive Director in May 2013. Serving in this role has been an immense honor, and he feels privileged to work with his family to advance the legacy of Ray, his grandfather. Lanier's passion for environmental stewardship was sparked by Ray's example and story, and he never tires of sharing this story with others. Mid-Course Correction Revisited: The Story and Legacy of a Radical Industrialist and his Quest for Authentic Change The original Mid-Course Correction, published 20 years ago, became a classic in the sustainability field. It put forth a new vision for what its author, Ray C. Anderson, called the “prototypical company of the 21st century”?a restorative company that does no harm to society or the environment. Anderson recounts his eureka moment as founder and leader of Interface, Inc., and one that was doing business in all the usual ways. Bit by bit, he began learning how much environmental destruction companies like his had caused, prompting him to make a radical change. Mid-Course Correction not only outlined what eco-centered leadership looks like, it also mapped out a specific set of goals for Anderson’s company to eliminate its environmental footprint. This second edition delves into how Interface worked toward making them a reality, birthing one of the most innovative and successful corporate sustainability efforts in the world. Mid-Course Correction Revisted contains a new foreword by Paul Hawken, several new chapters by Ray C. Anderson Foundation executive director John A. Lanier, and interviews with Janine Benyus, Joel Makower, Andrew Winston, Ellen MacArthur and other leaders in green enterprise, the circular economy, and biomimicry. Drawdown

The best of live interviews from GreenBiz events. This episode: Innovative author Janine Benyus on how biomimicry and “the genius of biome” can fight rising emissions.

Design is all around us, but much of it could be better, bolder, more elegant. This episode, TED speakers on the essence of good design in buildings, brands, the digital realm and the natural world. Guests include designer Tony Fadell, architect Marc Kushner, Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, design critic Alice Rawsthorn, and science writer Janine Benyus. (Original broadcast date: May 20, 2016).

This week we are excited to feature an encore episode chosen by our dear Podcast Editor and Producer Andrew Storrs. Biomimicry asks us to look at nature’s blueprint for a game plan. High speed trains from technology of the kingfisher birds, wind turbines from the humpback whale, harvesting fog air as inspired by the stenocara beetle, shock absorption from the woodpecker, planet cooling ventilation from termites-- these are fully functioning technologies that have existed in the vision of nature’s sheer brilliance.. Rather than drilling, pummelling, mining, exploding, taking, we could simply just look and see how it has been done since the very beginning. Sustainability should be the bare minimum when we have all the necessary technology to be thriving. Listen again this Thursday to this episode full of inspiration!

Pioneered by Janine Benyus, "Biomimicry" is a way of looking at nature and life as our mentors to find solutions for every aspect of life. Recommended resources include the 26-minute Biomimicry video on YouTube and the book. [1:10] First read the book Biomimicry cover-to-cover in 1997. It changed my life. [1:20] Basic idea is that life has already solved all the complex design problems through 3.8 billion years of trial and error. [1:40] How would you make a super-strong adhesive underwater: non-toxic, biodegradable, self-assembling [2:00] Best shape for something strong and stretchy? [2:20] Cable stronger than steel and as elastic as rubber, Non-toxic, ambient temperature? [2:35] Resources: Biomimicry book and a gorgeous video on YouTube (Janine Benyus talking with nature photography) [3:10] What is biomimicry? Innovation inspired by nature. [3:20] The natural world has already solved any problem that we are trying to solve. [3:30] There are some 30-100 million species. In this diversity there is also unity. [3:50] Life’s operating instructions: how to be an earthling. Life’s principles (see below) [4:50] As a young species, consider ourselves as apprentices to masters. [5:00] Replace industrial chemistry with nature’s chemistry as an Apollo Project. [5:50] Organism make chemicals in and near their own body, so can’t afford high temperatures or toxicity. [6:00] Nature is good at making hard ceramics. [6:10] Example: mother-of-pearl inside of abalone shell using protein, with calcium and carbonate in seawater to self-assemble inspiring chemists to learn how to make hard ceramics without a kiln. [7:35] We can be humble apprentices learning from our biological elders. [7:50] This is a big shift from the egotistical view of thinking that we as humans have all the answers, know what’s best and can outdo nature. [8:00] If we can flip our thinking around, it makes our job easier because the blueprint is in front of us.   Life’s Principles: Life runs on current sunlight. (We run on ancient photosynthesis trapped in fossil fuels.) Life does its chemistry in water as the universal solvent. (We tend to use very toxic chemicals like sulphuric acid.) Life depends on local expertise. Organisms have to know the limits and opportunities of their places. Life banks on diversity and rewards cooperation. Life wastes nothing, upcycles everything and most of all does not foul its home. Life uses a small subset of the periodic table: the safe elements. (We use all elements.) Life uses low temperatures, low pressure, low toxicity. (We force elements to bond or break with high temperatures and pressures.) Quotes: The best ideas might not be ours. They might already have been invented. Janine Benyus As a young species, our best stance is to be apprentices to our biological masters. Janine Benyus Resources: Video Biomimicry with Janine Benyus Published by TreeTV on September 11, 2015 https://youtu.be/sf4oW8OtaPY Book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature Janine Benyus, originally published in 1997 http://a.co/hvu175v   Thank you for listening!   Discover how to launch and grow a green team in your community. Suggest a topic, get the free Green Team Essentials including online community, avoidable mistakes guide and podcast discussion group at www.GreenTeamAcademy.com. If you like what you're hearing, please subscribe, rate and review!  

Matt Lynch joins Sustainable Nation to discuss: Sustainability programs and initiatives at the University of Hawaii Hawaii's ambitious renewable energy future and UH's contributions Reimagining organizational design for sustainability The Hawaii Sustainability in Higher Education Summit Recommendations and advice for sustainability leaders Matt's Final Five responses:   What is one piece of advice you would give other sustainability professionals that might help them in their careers? I'll give the same advice that my grandma gave me: you have two ears and one mouth for a reason. I would say cultivate and practice the skill-set of active listening, and then related to that is go seek out a mentor that can help you with dynamic group process and the skill-set of developing a group design, processes that can facilitate productive meetings. I think if I was to boil down the job description of sustainability professionals, one of the, the minimum qualifications would be something along the lines of the ability to design an agenda that does not result in death by meeting. What are you most excited about right now in the world of sustainability and regenerative development? I really think that this emergent, I don't know what to call it, I don't know if it's a practice or a lexicon, but there's this sense that we're getting from the field - the leading edge of practitioners are all talking about the need to look at, reimagine our sort of organizational design and the ways that we navigate these organizations. So I've heard different language for it. I think Leith Sharp and her group are using the term "Flow State Organizations;" they've connected with Janine Benyus who is focused on the biomimicry world, and are now coming up with additional terms. Locally, I've heard it referred to as a "network based organization," and I think that this tinkering with our human operating systems is by far the most exciting thing, another exciting piece in the field of sustainability right now. What is one book you'd recommend sustainability professionals read? Hard to go with one. I'm going to say Social Physics, a book by Sandy Pentland who is a mathematician using big data to study behavioral science at MIT. It's really transformed my understanding of how we make decisions individually and as a group. What are some of your favorite resources or tools that really helped you in the work that you do? This is specific to higher ed, but there's a great green schools list that has been in existence for over 10 years, you know when emails lists were a thing, and this has survived because of its utility - and outside of Higher Ed, I've actually have been a long time subscriber to a newsletter called Thoughts from the Frontline and it's published by a hardcore republican hedge fund analyst. I find his financial and geopolitical analysis to be fascinating. He called the mortgage market meltdown. It is not that norm of what a sustainability professional might be paying attention to. So it gives me this completely alternative viewpoint that I can bring back into this practice and I continue to find that a really valuable resource. Finally, where can our listeners go to learn more about you and the work that you're doing at UH? In our sustainability website is http://www.hawaii.edu/sustainability/and we're starting to focus on developing a larger social media presence as well so you can find us there well.

As a self-proclaimed “nature nerd”, Janine Benyus, is the Co-Founder of the Biomimicry Institute (a non-profit dedicated to making biology a natural part of the design process ), Founder of Biomimicry 3.8 ( the global leader in biomimicry innovation consulting, professional training, and educational program and curricula development) and author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired By Nature. On stage, she has shared two TED talks, hundreds of conference keynotes, and a dozen documentaries such as 11th Hour, Harmony, Second Nature: The Biomimicry Evolution, and The Nature of Things with David Suzuki, which aired in 71 countries. In this episode, we get to learn more about why she believes that the more people learn from nature's mentors, the more they'll want to protect them. Let's AskNature and dive in, with Janine Benyus! — — — For more information on Biomimicry: https://biomimicry.org

As a self-proclaimed “nature nerd”, Janine Benyus, is the Co-Founder of the Biomimicry Institute (a non-profit dedicated to making biology a natural part of the design process ), Founder of Biomimicry 3.8 ( the global leader in biomimicry innovation consulting, professional training, and educational program and curricula development) and author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired By Nature. On stage, she has shared two TED talks, hundreds of conference keynotes, and a dozen documentaries such as 11th Hour, Harmony, Second Nature: The Biomimicry Evolution, and The Nature of Things with David Suzuki, which aired in 71 countries. In this episode, we get to learn more about why she believes that the more people learn from nature's mentors, the more they'll want to protect them. Let's AskNature and dive in, with Janine Benyus! — — — For more information on Biomimicry: https://biomimicry.org

Japan’s Shinkansen doesn’t look like your typical train. With its long and pointed nose, it can reach top speeds up to 150–200 miles per hour. It didn’t always look like this. Earlier models were rounder and louder, often suffering from the phenomenon of "tunnel boom," where deafening compressed air would rush out of a tunnel after a train rushed in. But a moment of inspiration from engineer and birdwatcher Eiji Nakatsu led the system to be redesigned based on the aerodynamics of three species of birds. Nakatsu’s case is a fascinating example of biomimicry, the design movement pioneered by biologist and writer Janine Benyus. This is one of a series of design videos we're launching in partnership with Vox. Biomimicry Subscribe to Vox’s YouTube channel here: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO

Japan's Shinkansen doesn't look like your typical train. With its long and pointed nose, it can reach top speeds up to 150–200 miles per hour. It didn't always look like this. Earlier models were rounder and louder, often suffering from the phenomenon of "tunnel boom," where deafening compressed air would rush out of a tunnel after a train rushed in. But a moment of inspiration from engineer and birdwatcher Eiji Nakatsu led the system to be redesigned based on the aerodynamics of three species of birds. Nakatsu's case is a fascinating example of biomimicry, the design movement pioneered by biologist and writer Janine Benyus. This is one of a series of design videos we're launching in partnership with Vox. Biomimicry Subscribe to Vox's YouTube channel here: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO

Design is all around us, but much of it could be better, bolder, more elegant. This episode, TED speakers on the essence of good design in buildings, brands, the digital realm and the natural world. Guests include computer engineer Tony Fadell, architect Marc Kushner, Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, design critic Alice Rawsthorn, and science writer Janine Benyus. (Original broadcast date: May 20, 2016)

La vie existe sur cette Terre depuis près de 4 milliards d’années. Elle a eu le temps de s’y adapter au mieux, et ce grâce a des technologies extrêmement sophistiquées. Apprendre de la nature, s’inspirer du vivant pour tirer parti des solutions et inventions produites par la nature : c’est ce que la chercheuse américaine Janine Benyus a baptisé au milieu des années 90, biomimétisme… Exemple : les fleurs de la bardane sont difficiles à décrocher des poils des animaux. Et bien saviez-vous qu’un chercheur suisse – George de Mestral…

ÉCOUTERTÉLÉCHARGERPARTAGER Emission du 26 avril 2017 La vie existe sur cette Terre depuis près de 4 milliards d'années. Elle a eu le temps de s'y adapter au mieux, et ce grâce a des technologies extrêmement sophistiquées. Apprendre de la nature, s'inspirer du vivant pour tirer parti des solutions et inventions produites par la nature : c'est ce que la chercheuse américaine Janine Benyus a baptisé au milieu des années 90, biomimétisme… Exemple : les fleurs de la bardane sont difficiles à décrocher des poils des animaux. Et bien saviez-vous qu'un chercheur suisse – George de Mestral – s'est inspiré de ses propriétés pour créer le velcro, le scratch en 1951 ? Cette récente branche scientifique devrait révolutionner – révolutionne déjà – nos connaissances. Les hommes produisent des matières qui nécessitent un nettoyage régulier, la nature applique un principe simple l'auto-nettoyage… Nous avons principalement recours à l'énergie fossile pour produire nos matériaux, la nature utilise l'énergie propre… Nous exploitons des minerais, la nature utilise de l'air et de l'eau… Nos déchets ont une durée de vie trop longue, tous les autres êtres vivants utilisent les cycles de la nature… Véritable opportunité pour le futur, et si, avec l'aide des chercheurs, les mondes animal et végétal nous indiquaient les voies pour préserver notre planète mais aussi pour faire progresser l'être humain ? Pour quelles applications ? Surtout, pourquoi cette méthode peine encore à s'imposer ? C'est le thème de cette nouvelle radio-conférence du Labo des savoirs… Invités Emmanuel Chéné, maître de conférence à l'université de Nantes en Innovation digitale, créativité biomimétisme et design prospectif, Frédéric Boyer, professeur de robotique à l'IMT Atlantique, chercheur au Laboratoire de sciences du numérique de Nantes. CréditEmission animée par Agathe Petit, avec Valentin Briche. Réalisation : Cathy Dogon. Musique Le Roi Lion – C'est l'histoire de la vie Jurassic Park – Theme song

David meets with Janine Benyus, a self-proclaimed nature nerd, author and pioneer of biomimicry. David and Janine discuss her writings and how nature’s successes can inspire humanity.

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/

The acclaimed biologist, innovation consultant and author Janine Benyus illuminates how the biomimicry community can collaborate with nature on a hot list of challenges that just can’t wait. Invoking leading-edge science, she shows how biological networks can provide a model to spread good ideas far and wide. This speech was given at the 2013 Bioneers Annual Conference. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. To experience talks like this, please join us at the Bioneers National Conference each October, and regional Bioneers Resilient Community Network gatherings held nationwide throughout the year. For more information on Bioneers, please visit http://www.bioneers.org and stay in touch via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Bioneers.org) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/bioneers).

Envision what our world would and could look like if we actually started reading and following the directions contained in “Life’s Operating Manual.” Co-founder with Janine Benyus of the Biomimicry Guild and Biomimicry Institute, Dayna Baumeister provides an eagle’s-eye view of biomimicry breakthroughs using ecological design and nature-inspired technologies that emulate nature’s profound design sophistication. She has worked in the field of biomimicry with Janine Benyus since 1998 and designed and teaches the world’s first Biomimicry Professional Certification Program. Introduction by Byrony Schwan, Executive Director of the Biomimicry Institute. This speech was given at the 2011 Bioneers National Conference. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. To experience talks like this, please join us at the Bioneers National Conference each October, and regional Bioneers Resilient Community Network gatherings held nationwide throughout the year. For more information on Bioneers, please visit http://www.bioneers.org and stay in touch via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Bioneers.org) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/bioneers).

Applying the lens of nature-inspired design, Janine Benyus shares some of nature’s brilliant answers to the world’s most pressing environmental concerns, illustrated by inspiring real-world applications. Her Biomimicry Institute is guiding business transformation – the Next Industrial Revolution – by bringing biomimicry to the design table, and it’s starting to transform how businesses design and manufacture products. A waste-free, nontoxic, ultra-efficient technology is possible, if only we keep reminding ourselves to ask how nature would do it. This speech was given at the 2003 Bioneers Annual Conference. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. To experience talks like this, please join us at the Bioneers National Conference each October, and regional Bioneers Resilient Community Network gatherings held nationwide throughout the year. For more information on Bioneers, please visit http://www.bioneers.org and stay in touch via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Bioneers.org) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/bioneers).

The genius of nature’s design, recipes and principles is serving as the inspiration for redesigning human civilization. This Biomimicry revolution is spawning a next industrial revolution. Biomimicry masters Janine Benyus and Jay Harman illuminate the forefront of nature-inspired design, including human organization and the power of networks.

Host Lisa Kiefer interviews Jay Harman. Harman is the CEO, and Founder of PAX Scientific, a engineering, research, and design firm. One of the first scientists to make biomimicry a cornerstone of modern engineering. His book is The Shark's Paintbrush.TRANSCRIPTSpeaker 1:Method to the madness is next. Your listening to method to the madness. Biweekly public affairs show on KJ l x Berkeley, celebrating a area. Innovators. I'm Lisa Kiefer and today I'm interviewing Jay Harmon, president CEO and chief inventor at PAC scientific. He's also the author of the sharps paintbrush. I look at biomimicry. Welcome to the program, Jay. Oh, thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Yeah, [00:00:30] I'm very interested in biomedics and biomimicry. You know, you've written a book called the sharks paintbrush. It's in three parts. You first you talk about the potential of biomimetics, right? In business technology and in solving our climate change problems and other forces that are causing stress on the planet. Okay. And the second part, you give these amazing examples of creatures from fungus to sharks and what they can provide. And then your third part, which is very fascinating to me, is the business side of all this. [00:01:00] How do you bring these great ideas to the marketplace? So I want to talk about all of that and also about you. So first of all, you're Australian. Tell me about your life and how you got into all of it. Speaker 2:Well, you know, I think I have the best life possible for who I am. I grew up beside the beach in Australia, remote side, the left hand side, Perth. They chose the most remote city in the whole British empire and the nearest city to it is 1700 miles away. So I ran a small population, kind of a country town vibe [00:01:30] and an absolutely pristine co-sign, warm water and clear water. So I grew up in the water pretty much from the time I was 10. I just became fascinated by everything to do with nature. And a school was of no interest to me at all. You went to a Jesuit school? I went to a Jesuit school to not focus all that's right. They were fairly keen that I focused and uh, had persuasive methods, but I was able to resist my [inaudible]. I was interested in history, particularly pre history [00:02:00] and how humans have learned to develop skills. Speaker 2:And of course humans come from nature. We are nature, we're part of nature. We forget that a lot of the time as we evolved our societies out of nature, we copied how nature does things. And I was very interested in that as a, as a boy and at the same time noticing how nature actually does things, how to fish swim cause they're much better at swimming than I am. And I was fascinated by that, especially when I started trying to catch fish under water. Used to spear fish. [00:02:30] I used to. Yeah, I loved it. Yeah, it was just my favorite thing is okay then that was a very new sport then. This is in the early sixties and uh, skin diving. It really only just been invented and almost no good. He did it and I had a brain stick with a piece of shop on wire on it and I ran around trying to catch fish, but I noticed how just how wonderful fish were moving through the water with no fuss. Speaker 2:And I used to daydream about that when I was in school and when I went to bed at night trying to imagine how I could catch some who [00:03:00] I could be faster. And you know what was actually happening. Then one day I noticed that they just struck me that seaweeds, although they're quite fragile and managed to survive beautifully and even wild storms and huge waves, and I found that quite fascinating in over a period of time, I noticed that all these weeds are changing their shape to a particular pathway, even though it looks chaotic and it turns out that's the path of least resistance, so at least drag so the seaweeds can hang on just even in wild storms, and so then I did. I worked out over a long time and [00:03:30] over a lifetime. That's the archetype of shape of movement in nature. The nature uses it almost exclusively. Speaker 2:It's a spiral. You talk about the swirling shapes, which happened to be virtually identical to the whirlpool in your bathtub. When you pull the plug, that's a virtually frictionless device. It's nature's mechanism for moving fluids and energy. It uses it everywhere because it's almost frictionless. Unlike humans who really have huge problems with friction, that's where we use all [00:04:00] our energy. You were trained to overcome friction and resistance and drag. So we use huge amounts of energy and create huge amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere. Trying to overcome friction. Is that your Eureka moment? It was, I wasn't able to define it as that when I was a kid, but I was just fascinated by it and I was building in pretty rough looking canoes at that time out of corrugated iron and so forth and, and instead of beating them into shape with a hammer to try and replicate these shapes I was seeing and seaweed and then the way fish move and these colors seem to work better. Speaker 2:[00:04:30] So I was totally hooked and then that just became my obsession, really. My fascination and I saw it everywhere. And then interaction with aboriginal people, they make their own boats. And of course exactly. A lot of people have very little, when I was a kid that SNL [inaudible], he joined the Department of Fisheries and wildlife and I arranged all over Western Australia and the outback. My territory was a third of the size of the United States. And so I came across all sorts of populations of indigenous [00:05:00] people and their culture and as well as different wildlife ecosystems from the tropics to, to the Mediterranean, of course going to Jesuit school, which had a focus on spirituality and religion. I noticed that the same shapes that I saw, it really spiraling shapes. We were in the iconography of the Catholic Church. No priest was able to tell me what that was about. But there are everywhere, you know, these curls and spirals are in the artwork of missiles and bibles and statues and [00:05:30] pictures. Speaker 2:And I'm in the solar system and the solar system of course. Exactly. And uh, and since then of course I've noticed that, um, the spirals or through old religions of the world and the face, the most common eye archetypal symbol for creation, the mystery of life, fertility or the intelligence through all of the world's cultures, all the traumatic cultures, every major religion on earth, this is the symbol. It happens to be the only path. Well, almost only paths that nature uses to move anything. [00:06:00] It's order within chaos. You know, we think of the universe as chaotic. But we have this order. We have this spiral that turns up everywhere in all sorts of living things. The shame of our heart muscle, the kills of our hair, the kills of our eyelashes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The cochlear of our ears, we see it in the Fido taxus of organisms. Speaker 2:Every wave we see, every ripple we see on the ocean cause the geometry of whirlpools in it, and yet a human nature is to make a straight line between points. [00:06:30] Exactly. Well, of course at school, what do we learn that because the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Then if you want to use the least energy going from say one end of a football field to the other end of a football field, you've got to walk straight. Because if you go around the edge of the football field, you're going to be doing a lot more steps. It's going to take a lot more energy. Well, that's all making perfect sense and our entire industrial world is built on that premise and yet nature, not since the dawn of time has shown one single example of ever moving anything. [00:07:00] In a straight line. Speaker 2:It always follows these spiraling pathways always. And in every case, nature uses less energy and less materials than humans do. And they don't create any output that is damaging. Well, that's right. Well across nature is always creating the two closest conditions conducive to life, right? And the zero waste in nature, waste from nature's vocabulary. You could eliminate the term waste and call it resource, which amazed me. I saw a film that you were [00:07:30] featured highly in elemental and you talk about the optimism of nature, right? Nature is not just a survivor is amazing. No matter what happens, it comes back, you know, we can spray DDT or set off a nuclear weapon and uh, everything's devastated, incinerated, you name it, come back a little bit later and it's all burgeoning with life again. And we put down concrete and, and grass will come up through the concrete. Speaker 2:We've built a city of New York and we left it 200 years from now. You, you would see the whole thing over grown with [00:08:00] life and wild animals and organisms everywhere. So nature is completely optimistic. It puts out millions of spores from each fungus. It puts out half a million eggs in one lobster. You know, you can wipe out all of the crabs, so on the east coast of America and just leave a couple and come back in a few years and their population will have recovered. That's amazing. We might disappear. In fact, it's inevitable when you think about it. 99.99% of [00:08:30] all species that have ever existed on earth and now extinct. We were just one in that succession. We've got our little moment in history so we will disappear at some point, but life will go on. Nature will go on without blinking an eye. Well, in the epilogue of your book, there's a beautiful scene where you're sailing in this very remote area, right? Speaker 2:That's right. In the Indian Ocean, what you discovered? Well, I was failing about 400 miles Java, the right out in the Indian Ocean and the water was 12,000 feet deep and [00:09:00] not on any shipping lane. This scenario, nobody goes to and they're not even tourist yachts. And in the distance I noticed what looked like an island and a, it shouldn't have been an island there. And I looked at on my charts, no island, 12,000 feet of water, no shipping lane sailed up to this. And as I got closer, I saw birds were flying around and I saw trees just very small, young coconut palms sailed right up to it. And it was an island made completely of garbage. And there [00:09:30] was fishing nets and broken dinghies and sea containers that were barely floating and logs that had been washed down from rivers [inaudible] there's the late eighties they discovered that this was unheard of then. Speaker 2:Right? So this thing had weeds and vegetation on it and these young palm trees and there were crabs running around and there were birds and schools of fish under it, you know, and this whole thing was a product of human negligence, if you like. And then it struck me that from nature's point of view, this was an opportunity [00:10:00] and it had created this amazing living argonaut that was floating across the ocean. That's pretty optimist. Oh, it's fantastic. So that really gave me heart and you know, we see a lot of bad news in the press, but especially now more and more when we wonder if our planet's going to be worth living on in another few decades. And you look at all the stresses they've happened at different times in history, but never at the same total. Exactly. Or at the size staggering in the last million years. Nothing like that though. Speaker 2:We're really on a precipice here. But I also [00:10:30] am totally optimistic because we've reached a point in time where we have the technology and the ideas and the ability to look at nature as mentor to solve all these problems. We have that ability. She's clean, green, and sustainable. And if you think of the 10 million species on earth today, these species, every one of them has solved the problems that we face. They have done it sometimes under incredible stress. Incredible staff. Extraordinary. Yeah, that's right. I mean, you've just got to look at these deep [00:11:00] sea events in the middle of the ocean, you know, miles deep in the ocean and you've got the sulfuric mass coming out of these little volcanic shoots. There's no oxygen. It's a completely hostile environment. How could there possibly be life there? And yet that water is teaming with life unbelievable. Speaker 2:Without oxygen and that very high temperatures. Okay, so let's go back. You know, when in your boy hood and you, how did you get out into the world with these ideas? Well, uh, all my spare time [00:11:30] as a kid was either in the water or making stuff. Then when I left school, you know, I'd rebuild old cars and get them working and, you know, just anything, right? Join the fisheries and wildlife department and became a captain, um, on patrol and research vessels and spent 12 years right in, sometimes you'd call it the teeth of Meta, you know, survived a hundred mile an a hurricane at sea on a, on a 50 foot patrol boat and lots of adventures and seeing the sea snake [00:12:00] advance fee snakes and so many encounters with snakes. You know, it's got a nine of the worst or the most poisonous this makes in the world of the top 10 being in the outback, I saw plenty and plenty of varieties and lots of advantages, but I also noticed that the environment was, even though there were a lot of folks out there trying to protect the environment in love with nature, feeling the pain of nature being destroyed and making heroic efforts to protect it [00:12:30] with a strike of a political pen, a wildlife reserve could be turned into a mine site. Speaker 2:Even with lawsuits and everything else. It was a losing battle. When I first left the fisheries department is a mud life. I went in search of myself. I said, well, who am I in all of this? And you know, the sort of ACA type or question most of us end up with at some point. So they went to university and studied comparative religion and psychology and Economics and economics. And I did that for awhile and then I went off around the world and, uh, study with [00:13:00] different mystics, met interesting people in different Christian faiths and then went to two Asian gurus and just really, really engaged myself full time in that inquiry for several years. And to the point that I completely ran out of money and I ended up back in Australia and I had to make some money quickly. And it was a recession at the time and there was really not much opportunity for a, um, a past fisheries and wildlife officer. Speaker 2:Right? So I started a company cause I [00:13:30] didn't know enough not to, and I started a company called DRG Australia thinking that I'll bring these ideas from nature into the industrial world. A couple of days after I founded the company and tripped up the name, bumped into an engineer who had an idea for an electronics product. So I thought, well, let's do that. We'll make a few bucks and then we can do the nature-based stuff. That electronics product turned out to be pretty successful. And, uh, we had the, um, one of the first two so-called high technology companies in [00:14:00] Australia, right place, right time. This was 1982. We formed the company two years to the day we put it on the stock market. It was enormously successful. It was just meteoric rise and everybody that was involved got very rich very quickly. Within a few weeks, I think six weeks, there was a hostile takeover of the company and I was out, which was a bit of a shock and a really interesting learning curve. Speaker 2:Okay. The world of business works quite differently from my thoughts about ethics and spirituality, [00:14:30] so that you left with enough money to do oh yeah. I, I, I, I left with a nice side of money and I'd built a sale Beta over the previous two years. So I took off sailing around Asia and there was a wonderful time. I ha I just had the best time that, and so I decided to try and tell the world how to adapt these technologies of nature, of these strategies of nature into the marketplace. But did they listen to you? You weren't an engineer by trade, [00:15:00] right? No, nobody listened. In fact, I was considered extremely fringe and eccentric. I designed a boat called the wild thing, which are much more efficient than a any boat in the world today, the best performing small craft in the world. And it won awards and you know, all sorts of articles and a great boat, extremely safe. Speaker 2:Third of the weight of anything else, like it, a lot less energy. But it was so different that the voting industry, which is extremely conservative, the boating industry rejected it [00:15:30] hands down, and yet the public really loved it. When I put it in boat shows at won first prize at boat shows and uh, you know, people that had never had boats before bought them. But it was such a struggle at the end. I sold the business, I moved on to other things. I thought, well, there's gotta be an easier thing to do. And I said, well, what about propellers? What if we made a better propeller? Nature's really good at propulsion. So I made a propeller based on a frozen whirlpool. Imagine you pull that plug from the bath and you've got that whirlpool. If [00:16:00] you could freeze it and rotate it, you're going to create the same flow patterns that nature does. Speaker 2:So I did that. I created this propeller and it worked really well. And then I thought, well I forgot to propeller. I've got a pump and a fan and a turbine. So it started adapting this approach to all those things and took them out to the marketplace, right to the uh, to the CEOs of 21 fortune 500 companies, got 17 interviews, did presentations, great reception. [00:16:30] People were very interested at the CEO level and they said, well, work with our engineers say we will pass down to the engineers. And the engineers really didn't know where to start because this was completely inside out thinking. And it was at a time where America is starting to lose its jobs to Asia. And so these engineers are all doing 60 hour days just trying to compete to keep their jobs and they didn't have the background in what I was doing. Speaker 2:So there was really no way to interface [00:17:00] effectively. So out of all those companies, not a single one actually took up the technology though we did get a few offers to buy all of the patents that we figured, well under these circumstances it's probably just going to get squashed or or left on the shelf because we were seen as competitive. So we walked away from that and then you know, we were running very short on funds so and a few friends and family. We're excited by what we are doing. So they helped us a little bit. Out of this came a [00:17:30] product that would get you on the map by cleaning water and cities you mixer, which was also based on this spiraling shape. Yeah, well once we had a propeller and a turbine and a fan and all that sort of thing, we had this frozen whirlpool and that's a very beautiful looking thing. Speaker 2:And the original one is six inches high, four in diameter. It's actually in the permanent collection of Moma in New York now. It's gorgeous, right? It's like something you might've picked from the garden and it works so well. And we [00:18:00] wondered, okay, well how are we going to earn some income from this? How are we going to pay for our staff, et Cetera. And we had a water engineer on staff. He helped us and he, he came to us one day and he said, well you know, the municipal water storage system has real problems with water quality because these great big tanks, you know, there might be 10 million gallon tank, you know, it's a football field, 30 feet deep, have the sun beating on them. So the water at the top heats up and the disinfectants that municipalities put into this water, the byproducts often [00:18:30] are nitrates, which are fertilizers. Speaker 2:So if you've got a warm water and nitrates, you get biological events, not good. So then municipalities have to tip in a whole lot more disinfectant and it's all stagnant. And the stagnant water cause this goes up and down cause the pipe that fills the tank is the same pipe that they draw the water out of the tank from. And it's right at the bottom. So there's no mixing going on. So, so he said, well, if we put in our little mixer and this tiny little thing we could, and what we do is turn it completely [00:19:00] into a ring vortex, which is almost frictionless. It's an amazing device. Nita uses them everywhere. The atmosphere, all the thermals that birds fly on the oceans are full of these. This room is full of them. So this is how nature mixes the tornado or a hurricane or actually the center spouts of a ring vortex. Speaker 2:So if you take this frozen whirlpool and rotate it in a tank or a pond or a lake, you're actually creating exactly the same thing. So there's tiny things, six inches high. We put it on the [00:19:30] little mentor and we ran it with 300 watts. And you imagine you put that in the middle of a football field, 30 feet deep. It's not gonna make any difference at all. Right? And they can have any effect. And yet it completely did the job. We went off to, um, to municipalities and they said, Oh yeah, sure. You know, show me. Yeah, you're smoking the wrong stuff. So eventually, um, the folks at redwood city kindly let us have tank to demonstrate. So we put it in the tank. It worked incredibly [00:20:00] well, which they verified. And we then set up a company around it, pax water. It was a tough sell to begin with, but now, um, we're in nearly 1300 of these installations in America, Australia and the Middle East. Speaker 2:So it's air raiding the water, it's decreasing the amount of chemicals in the water greatly decreasing the chemicals by about 85%. It certainly decreases the energy of any attempts that people might have had before to try and rectify the situation. [00:20:30] And it is 100% effective in 100% of applications. So that's, it's pretty cool. Yeah, and the company has the reputation for that now, so it's no longer difficult to sell. But anyway, their company's done well and now it's got another six. We're five products out there. So we're addressing all sorts of things to do with water. But you also have this other incredibly interesting product. You looked at some of the environmental stresses around the world, the air quality in Beijing, the air quality in places like Denver where the air is just sitting stagnantly this was working on. [00:21:00] It's very similar principle. If you think about it, the atmosphere is full of these. Speaker 2:When we see the birds circling Pelicans and the Congo was in, sorry, fourth cruising around and higher altitudes, they're cruising on these huge ring vortex, these big upwellings. What we've been able to demonstrate is that we can accelerate those upwellings in most of the cities in the world, even in the cleanest cities in the world, we're putting out a lot of gunk, the cleanest cities, typically a windy cities. It just means the gunks being [00:21:30] spread over our neighbors and we don't see it, but places like Beijing and Mexico City and Tehran and La and Denver have mountains near them, the form of basin, and what happens is certain times of the year, there's no air change in that base, and so it fills up with gunk and you end up with different densities of air as you go up in the atmosphere and the cold inversion layers. Speaker 2:We've all seen what Beijing looks like. It's shocking. What if you [00:22:00] could penetrate that inversion layer and break it? I create wind Craig, an updraft that actually goes through that and that's what every other city has and that's what New York has. That's what San Francisco, they have upwellings and then cross whims that distribute all that pollution. To me, this is not the ultimate fix. No, because that goes elsewhere. Yeah, I was still pollution, so we have to deal with the pollution, but in the short term you have this huge population of Beijing that has chronic [00:22:30] health problems. In fact, I think the consensus right now is that pollution is going to cause more deaths in Beijing than any other cause. Turn the short term we can, we believe and I think we've proven it well enough, break that inversion layer in Beijing and let the wind disperse their rubbish over other parts of the country and the ocean just like every other city in the world. Speaker 2:I have to emphasize again, that's not the long term solution. By us time [00:23:00] relieves these people. We're very confident that we can do something of use up yet in China. No it's got kind of in the, to the political morass at the moment. We've also been approached by people from Tehran. Well of course we can't trade with Iran. Um, that may change with these new new events that are happening. Cause Taran has got a huge problem. And the other thing is that we don't see this as, um, a way to pay our bills. This is more, you know, a humanitarian [00:23:30] thing, but we've put it out there and people know about it. So I thought it was pretty exciting. It is. I think so. And where it gets even more exciting. I think there's in many parts of the world, like the Middle East, around the Arabian Gulf or the Persian Gulf, depending on which side you live on, you get incredibly high temperatures and incredibly high humidity and no rain. Speaker 2:Can you affect that humidity and get it to passivity? Well, the way nature does it is with these upwellings and there are whole lots of ways to get that [00:24:00] rain to fall out because the Chinese right now do cloud seeding. A lot of countries do, but the Chinese have a whole squadron of their air force that does nothing but cloud seeding to cause rain and they use silver iodide. Now it works, but it's very expensive and they don't get a huge result from it, but they get enough to justify it. There are better ways to do it. Nature doesn't put silver or date up there. Nature causes precipitation. We think the same technology can absolutely make a difference in high humidity climate. Are there any other products [00:24:30] on the horizon that are, you're very excited? Oh yes. There's two in particular. One is that the fans, just the air moving fans, you use 22% of the world's electrical energy, computer server farms run by Google and apple and all these folks are using it, about two and a half percent of all of the nation's electrical energy and about 40% of that goes into cooling fans just to get rid of the heat from these silicon chips that are operating at very high temperatures. Speaker 2:We've taken the best fans in the world today [00:25:00] and applied the biomimicry approach in the state of California, funded this research and we took the two best fans in the world and one of them, we reduced the energy by 37% and the other one 47% now that's very significant. That's billions of dollars of energy a year just in the u s that can be saved. Refrigeration and air conditioning is about 30% of the world's electrical energy. Nature does refrigeration very well. Every hurricane, every tornado, every whirlpool [00:25:30] is actually a refrigerator. It's a heat engine, but if you could catch a hurricane, put it in a bottle and accelerate it to let's say twice the speed of three times the speed of sound you've got right there and incredibly powerful refrigeration system. And then that's what we've done. You've done that? Yes, in server farms and it's using somewhere around two thirds less energy than the best systems in the world today, but it's able to take these systems that are currently operating [00:26:00] around 80 degrees centigrade and take them and have them operate at 40 degrees centigrade and electronics always work much more efficiently as they get colder. Speaker 2:So this is, this is game changing. This is a very big deal. We need game changer. Is it going to be enough soon enough? We came to the conclusion a lot of years ago that it totally comes down in this modern world of ours to the bottom line. Companies are not altruistic. The shareholders want their pound of flesh and a board of directors [00:26:30] have one mandate to get the shareholder's money without hurting their companies, right? So what we have to do is prove that it affects the bottom line and that's what we've really focused on and we can show that over and over and over. So there's not a lot of appetite in big corporations to be highly inventive or take a lot of risk and smaller companies are not well capitalized and then have market share. Now refrigeration technology is phenomenal. We can show it to anybody. Speaker 2:We've got the prototypes, we've got the patent, we've got [00:27:00] eight patents on this. This is incredible game changing technology. There is no money. So how do you overcome that challenge? There has to be a new instrument. If you go to Europe, you can get all sorts of government grants. If you've got an idea, you can go and get 50,000 a hundred thousand dollars to build your prototypes and do some work with universities, et cetera. But there's no money to take it from there on. America's got plenty of companies here, you know, I mean there's a half a dozen I could list that could easily take this on and handle its development and marketing and we'd love to [00:27:30] support those companies to become world leaders in this new technology. But to get from where we are to those people wanting to take it on, there's the gap because it's great to have it in the laboratory that there's a development costs to get it to a manufactured item. Speaker 2:And the companies that are out there now are not making their money from doing that kind of transition and making their money from buying cheaply from China packaging it well and marketing has to be done tax concessions for companies to [00:28:00] pick up these kinds of technologies so government can drive, government can totally drive innovation, but in a politically contentious world, nobody wants to take a chance. We've had several grants, some of them, it costs us more to get the grant. Then the grant is worth, well we don't have time for [inaudible] so we have to get out of the political stuff. Is it going to take some kind of catastrophe or we're in catastrophe. President Obama has said he's devoting the rest of his presidency to climate change. All sorts of people standing [00:28:30] up now and saying, we have to do this. The pope fantastic. What a great thing that he would even take that on. Speaker 2:Right? While there are vested interests muddying the field and the heads in the sand, it's difficult for government to be really sensible and proactive with this. So then I think you have to turn to the people [inaudible] people [inaudible] investments, some something that's right. This refrigeration technology, one or $2 million would be sufficient to get through [00:29:00] that transition. I love that scene in the movie with you and Francesca and this hedge fund guys in there and he goes, you know, everything looks great, but you know, they have a real problem with a family [inaudible] we can't sell it. You know, if you, if you really look, you'll find the thing that really calls to you. It's gotta be in something that enthuses you, something that captures your imagination. So that's all I did. I just love being out in nature. [00:29:30] And if you devote yourself to that, even if you don't make a huge amount of money, and by the way, you, chances are you're going to have a richer life anyway by doing that because you're probably going to excel at it. Speaker 2:But even if you don't make a lot of money, you're going to have a wonderful life. So what, where do you want people to go to learn more about you, your company? If anybody's really interested in bio mimicry, ask nature.org is incredible resource and it's got really probably thousands of instances now of how nature is doing things that [00:30:00] we can learn from and adapt and a biomimicry 3.8 it's part of the same group as Janine Benyus as a group and then tack scientific. Francesca and I founded this and in 1997 so that they can reach you on that website. And that's right. That's great. Well, I really appreciate you being on the show. I could have talked all day the Speaker 1:stuff. I think it's incredible. So thanks again. Thank you. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Some of the best minds on the planet are busy cataloguing possible solutions to the crisis of climate chaos. Scientists, entrepreneurs and educators on technology's cutting edge offer a broad array of bio-based solutions that are already working to transition us to a truly sustainable civilization. Biomimics Janine Benyus, Stephan Dewar, David Orr and Jay Hannan offer a smorgasbord of startling solutions based on nature's genius.

Bathing suits modeled on sharkskin that win the Olympics. Low-energy display screens based on peacock feathers. Nature has done everything human societies want to do technologically-without mining the past or mortgaging the future. Acclaimed author, naturalist and biomimicry leaders Janine Benyus, Jason McCiennan and Bob Hawkins uncork a mind-boggling bouquet of breakthrough innovations that, like nature, create conditions conducive to life. This genuine scientific revolution shows why preserving nature and biological diversity is our best survival strategy.

These days 3D printers are going with astronauts to outer space, creating prosthetic body parts, building up cars and houses, and bringing manufacturing jobs back to the USA. On a consumer level, 3D printers produce lots of stuff: toys, jewelry, accessories, home decor, etc. So, what's the environmental potential of this additive manufacturing approach, relative to subractive milling or injection molding? What should we know about the toxicity and reusability of the common plastics and polymers — the materials science of 3D printing? Laura Garzon Chica (@EarthMediaArts) hosts Janine Benyus of Biomimicry 3.8 biomimicry.net and Jeremy Faludi of UC Berkeley faludidesign.com to discuss how 3D printing could shape up to be a boon or a bane and how the industry can get on a more sustainable trajectory. Also, in a special “speak back” segment, hear from Josh Hart of StopSmartmeters.org on the slippery slope that is the Internet of Things. The post Terra Verde – September 26, 2014 appeared first on KPFA.

Discover how Nature, in her infinite wisdom, and 4 billion years of evolution provide brilliant solutions in our quest for greater sustainability.Guest(s):Janine Benyus, Co-Founder, Biomimicry 3.8, Montana

For us to really get with the evolutionary program we need not control and patent natural systems, processes and life forms, but rather learn advanced design from them. Janine Benyus is the catalyst of and guide for a cross-disciplinary movement following her basic thesis that human beings should consciously emulate nature’s genius in their designs. This 50 minute extended program … Read more about this episode...

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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/

Natural historian Janine Benyus believes that imitating nature's best ideas can provide solutions to human problems. Could we store electricity like an electric eel to build a nontoxic battery? Benyus told Studio 360's Sarah Lilley how copying nature's design is the key to our own sustainability.

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.

Janine Benyus, author of Biomimicry: Inovation Inspired by Nature, speaking at the 2003 Bioneers conference. The post Terra Verde – April 23, 2004 appeared first on KPFA.