This week on TreeHugger, how biomimicry works, a zombie caterpillar, the science of urban farming, DIY rocket stoves, and much more! 1. How Biomimicry Drives Sustainability: From Fish-Inspired Wind ...

When the Wright brothers were figuring out how to build an airplane, they took inspiration from some of the fliers of the natural world - birds. Nature has had a long time to perfect its ways, so why ...

It’s frightening to think, but one of every six people in the world today doesn’t have enough safe water to drink. Within 30 years, thirst will spread to three-quarters of the world’s population. But ...

In 1997, biologist and innovation consultant Janine Benyus, released her first book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. In this publication she coined the term ‘biomimicry’ and laid the ...

How to improve food systems by looking to nature for design solutions – this was the brief given to entrants in the Biomimicry Institute’s Global Design Challenge, which announced its finalists this ...

In this edition, we tell you how startups are trying to find new ways of harnessing the power of the wind and waves. Some are even using biomimicry, or how to emulate nature's patterns and strategies.

Our biomimicry challenge What Would You Ask Nature? drew dozens of real-world business problems submitted by companies from all over the world. We assigned three challenges to three firms and paired ...

Birds do it. Bees do it. And now, increasingly, aircraft engineers are falling in love with the idea of studying the natural world to find solutions that can be adapted and applied to the design of ...

Forget human ingenuity - the best source of ideas for cutting-edge technology might be in nature, according to experts in 'biomimicry' Robot in disguise: the gecko's climbing ability has been copied ...

The term biomimicry will be familiar to longtime readers. Science and technology which imitates phenomena from the living natural world have featured in these pages from the beginning. Here, New Atlas ...