WiserEarth Area of Focus Suggestions

I have been involved in the AskNature.org project since early 2007 first as a technical consultant and project manager and now as an adviser and general cheerleader. While I get to exercise many of my passions at my real job as a user experience researcher at Google, involvement with biomimicry, and sustainability issues in general, is one of the main things that keeps me jumping out of bed every day.

Previously I worked for the National Center for Appropriate Technology managing the Web presence of the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service. In what now seems like another life, I managed a state-wide AmeriCorps program in Montana, served as the educational programs manager at the Minnesota Horticultural Society, and was the associate publisher of the Missoula Independent.

AskNature is part search engine, where users can look through Nature’s solutions, and part online studio, where innovators, designers, and biologists can meet, share information, and dream up creative new designs. In AskNature, designers and engineers can describe a design challenge, then find organisms that have already solved the same challenge and biologists who can explain the details.

 

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