Uploaded on May 17, 2007 http://www.ted.com In this inspiring talk about recent developments in biomimicry, Janine Benyus provides heartening examples of ways in which nature is already influencing the products and systems we build.

Uploaded on Aug 6, 2009
Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Here she reveals dozens of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular results.

Published on Dec 18, 2014
The acclaimed biologist, innovation consultant and author Janine Benyus illuminates how the biomimicry community can collaborate with nature on a hot list of challenges that just can’t wait. Invoking leading-edge science, she shows how biological networks can provide a model to spread good ideas far and wide.

This speech was given at the 2013 Bioneers Annual Conference. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges.

Published on Dec 13, 2012
Nature is pretty damn smart. In fact, many modern technologies get their ideas from nature. Trace explores the awesome field of biomimicry.

Published on Jun 18, 2013
Sara El Sayed, certified biomimicry professional and biologist, uncovers the possible functions of nature's masterpieces by questioning how they may be replicated for use in sustainable design; through a process known as Biomimicry. With contagious enthusiasm, her talk is brought to life as she explains how we can all draw inspiration from the natural world around us to create a greener future.

Published on Sep 24, 2013
Vince and Allison report on important examples of biology in design, from birds in flight to a new car whose shape was inspired by a box fish.

Published on Feb 7, 2014 Wiebke Liu is a Fortune 500 executive, McKinsey-trained strategist, consultant, entrepreneur, and proud mother. She combines her passion for business with her love for nature into a quest to help businesses shift to sustainable process and product design. She believes we must leave behind the straight-line industrial age methods of production, and embrace closed-loop processes with zero waste. This is how we will stop maximizing for just a few and start optimizing for all.

Wiebke's business career started in corporate finance at Deutsche Bank and spans consulting at McKinsey & Company, growing internet start-ups, running her own marketing consultancy, and leading marketing functions at Apollo Group, the world's largest online education provider. She has developed consumer brands including Apollo's Balloon.com, an online skills marketplace, and Innovator's Accelerator, the IDEO-designed innovation course with Harvard's Clayton Christensen. She has also designed sales and marketing programs for market leaders including Adobe, AT&T, Expedia, Microsoft, Peet's Coffee, Sun, Target, and the occasional winery.

In her TEDxOlympicBlvdWomen talk, Liu explores nature as the ultimate R&D lab and systems designer. Using examples including slime mold and honey bees, she shows how businesses can drive innovation by studying and mimicking nature. Liu urges businesses to apply nature's blueprints to create win-win value chains with the power to restore our planet.

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Published on Oct 25, 2012
This film describes the implementation fo biomimicry into site design, thus dispelling the false dichotomy between landscape and architecture.

In this video, I present the concept of Biomimicry: Bio means life; mimicry means imitate. So biomimicry is the practice of imitating life. It looks to Nature to provide inspiration and direction to sustainably solve our most pressing challenges; it’s innovation inspired by nature.

Uploaded on Feb 11, 2011
Exploring a fusion of biology and modern technology to try and find solutions for environmental issues and climate change. In his talk Nicholas Sykes suggests a paradigm shift to create more sustainable products, processes and systems

Nicholas Sykes is a Project Manager with Highgate Interiors, currently managing the refurbishment of The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He is a Biology Graduate from Exeter University, and has previously taught biology at two prominent English private schools.

Published on Jun 21, 2015 Biomimetics is the science of looking to nature for answers to our technological problems. You use biomimetic technologies every single day, we take a look at the 10 incredible advances in biomimicry. Countdown titles:

1. 00:00 UltraCane
2. 01:21 Swarm Robotics
3. 02:44 Self-Cleaning Paint
4. 03:58 Multifaceted Cameras
5. 05:19 Shark Skin Coatings
6. 06:50 SCRATCHBot
7. 08:14 Organic Solar Cells
8. 09:14 The T8 SpiderBot
9. 10:11 Self-Healing Circuits
10. 11:42 Parasitic Skin Grafts

Published on Sep 11, 2015
Biomimicry, the practice of looking deeply into nature for solutions to engineering, design and other challenges, has inspired a film about it's ground-breaking vision for creating a long-term, sustainable world. This film covers how mimicking nature solves some of our most pressing problems, from reducing carbon emissions to saving water. The film, titled "Biomimicry" features Janine Benyus, is brought to you by Leonardo DiCaprio, Executive Producers Oliver Stanton, directed by Leila Conners, produced by Mathew Schmid and Bryony Schwan, created by Tree Media with Executive Producers Roee Sharon Peled and George DiCaprio. For more information on Biomimicry: http://www.biomimicry.org For more on the film: http://www.treemedia.com