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Per capita, I would say that Australia has more biomimetic projects going than many other countries I've been to.
- Janine Benyus
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Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.
- Janine Benyus
#Life
#Nature
#Only
#Resilience
#World
Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earth's most precious gift.
- Janine Benyus
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#Every
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Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.
- Janine Benyus
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#Energy
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#Smart
Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.
- Janine Benyus
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#Revolution
Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.
- Janine Benyus
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For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.
- Janine Benyus
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#Business
#Design
#Environmental
Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.
- Janine Benyus
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The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.
- Janine Benyus
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Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
- Janine Benyus
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#Coral
#Plants
#Poison
#Shells
Life creates conditions conducive to life.
- Janine Benyus
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There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.
- Janine Benyus
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Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.
- Janine Benyus
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#Easy
#Green
#Life
#Nature
There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.
- Janine Benyus
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#City
#Leaf
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Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents combined - about 100,000.
- Janine Benyus
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#Car
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