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Created: Jan 05, 2007
Updated: Oct 27, 2007
All Areas of Focus » Sustainable Design »

Biomimicry

Med_honeyhouse2Med_honeybee2 Biomimicry is a technical discipline that takes inspiration from natural organism shapes and forms to develop new engineering solutions and industrial designs that imitate nature's designs.

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mimicking nature, science, model, design, ecological principle, product, process, feedback system, sustainable, ecological standard, biomimetics, design by nature, biological design, environmental sustainability, industrial design, economics, business, technology, green chemistry

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Biomimetics Network for Industrial Sustainability promotes the application of Biomimetics (Design Inspired by Nature) in products and services and its use in education and training.

Biomimicry Institute naturalizes biomimicry in the culture by promoting the transfer of ideas, designs, and strategies from biology to sustainable human systems design.

Amsterdam houseboat with a green roof: Med_greenroofhouseboat
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Design For Life: The Architecture of
Sim Van der Ryn
Med_design_for_life 		Ecological Design
Tn_ecodesign 		Biomimicry
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trmcgee 12 months ago
There is also the Biomimicry Guild. The Guild is the first and only (so far) Innovation Consultancy for Bio-Inspired Design. We should add that to the page:

www.biomimicryguild.com
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