Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature Janine M. Benyus
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Janine Benyus popularized the term “biomimicry” in 1997, with her book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (1997). That's all you need to participate in our Biomimicry Education Summit and Global Conference video contest! For many scientists who are inspired by nature and use biomimicry or bioinspiration as a guide it is not sustainability per se that drives them. That 1997 book was Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (in which Benyus coined the term “biomimicry”) and it went on to stir up a movement of sorts in the United States. Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature . I have defined biomimicry as the art of drawing inspiration from natural shapes, processes and ecosystems, in order to innovate in a sustainable way. An in-depth look at innovation inspired by nature and the steps it will take to align ourselves with the up to 30 million other species currently inhabiting the earth. Biomimicry is an emerging discipline based on the logic that we can look to nature for ideas on how to design better products and processes. More recently in 1997 Janine Benyus coined the term biomimicry in her book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. She explains what prospects we opened this innovation. Join Janine Benyus for a tweet chat today at 4:00 PM Eastern, 1:00 PM Pacific. If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by the last sixty seconds. How did you come up with the term “biomimicry”. Chat with the Author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. In 1997 biologist and science writer Janine Benyus coined the term when she wrote the book Biomimicry—Innovation Inspired by Nature. Innovations, whether in farming, composite science, or computing, are a product of human creativity.