Janine Benyus
Janine Benyus
Janine M. Benyusis an American natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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.
cities forests sustainability
When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.
answers planets our-planet
The answers to how to live sustainably on our planet are all around us.
nature stories use
If we are to use our tools in the service of fitting in on Earth, our basic relationship to nature--even the story we tell ourselves about who we are in the universe--has to change.