Janine Benyus
Janine Benyus
Janine M. Benyusis an American natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author...
NationalityAmerican
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CountryUnited States of America
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.
what-if solve ifs
What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'
ecosystems cities three
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,
biomimicry conditions
Life creates conditions conducive to life.
song nature our-world
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details of our world. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination, our language, our song and dance, our sense of the divine.
ecosystems design challenges
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.
innovation eras revolution
Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.
running law diversity
After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles... Nature runs on sunlight. Nature uses only the energy it needs. Nature fits form to function. Nature recycles everything. Nature rewards cooperation. Nature banks on diversity. Nature demands local expertise. Nature curbs excesses from within. Nature taps the power of limits.
needs answers world
The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.
mother home our-world
The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.
bit organisms work
Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get.
co2 organisms
Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.