"I love that you've brought this to attention. An extensive database of uncommon but resistant and hardy plants/foods could be developed and organized by climate. Ease of growth and processing should also be taken in to account. I will try to…"
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Hero to shadow: Janine Benyus
Janine Benyus is a natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including her latest − Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. In Biomimicry, she names an emerging discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature's designs and processes (e.g., solar cells that mimic leaves, agriculture that models a prairie, businesses that run like redwood forests). Since the book’s 1997 release, Janine has evolved the practice of biomimicry, consulting with sustainable business, academic, and government leaders, serving on the Eco-Dream Team at Interface, Inc., and conducting seminars about what we can learn from the genius that surrounds us. Her favorite role is biologist-at-the-design-table, introducing innovators to organisms whose well-adapted designs have been tested over 3.8 billion years.
Janine is also President of The Biomimicry Institute, creator of the open source project : AskNature.org
The idea behind AskNature, is a online inspiration source for the Biomimicry community. Think of it as your home habitat—whether you’re a biologist who wants to share what you know about an amazing organism, or a designer, architect, engineer, or chemist looking for planet-friendly solutions. AskNature is where biology and design cross-pollinate, so bio-inspired breakthroughs can be born.
Thanks to sponsors like Autodesk, AskNature is a free, open source project, built by the community and for the community. Their goal is to connect innovative minds with life’s best ideas, and in the process, inspire technologies that create conditions conducive to life. To accomplish this, They are doing something that's has never been done—organizing the world’s biological literature by function.
I have join them ,You can also do it, come on get involved and be part of the design revolution inspired by nature.
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Comment by Hugo Quintero on March 15, 2010 at 11:02pm
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Sending some evidence
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Comment by Katherine Morrison on March 19, 2010 at 2:25am
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Hey there Hugo, high five on the hero choice, she is my choice as well. I thought of her the moment I read the challenge.
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