Janine Benyus
Janine Benyus
Janine M. Benyusis an American natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
stress bridges tree
Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.
fuel want fossils
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.
new-year nature animal
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 in the last sixty seconds. Luckily for us, our planet-mates--the fantastic meshwork of plants, animals, and microbes--have been patiently perfecting their wares since March, an incredible 3.8 billion years since the first bacteria. ...After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to survival.
block thinking poison
Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
resilience use world
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.
writing impact discipline
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.
moving book thinking
Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks deeply, with the soul of a student. He moves with grace from a world of waving sea kelp to the world of sustainable design, bringing nature's wisdom into the board rooms of global companies, to the design tables of the engineers and designers who make our world. This is more than a business book, more than a memoir, more than a new way to solve global challenges. It's a book about a new way to think.
water earth reactions
Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift.
world pitching cooperation
Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world
nature reality law
In reality, we haven't escaped the gravity of life at all. We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.
listening instruction
Listening to nature's operating instructions.
nature writing environmental
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world. To tune in again, to have the "spontaneous environmental rapport" that characterized our ancestors, will take doing something that is perfectly delightful: reimmersing ourselves in the natural world.
smart design friendly
Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.
people spiders shells
Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.