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Nature-inspired innovators to take the stage at a biomimicry pitch event and showcase
Come see nature-inspired innovation in action at the first annual Biomimicry Pitch Event and Technology Showcase on October 20, 2016, in San Francisco.
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Featuring a VIP judge panel, this event will be a fun, festive, biomimicry-themed pitch session, starring seven teams from the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge Accelerator. Enjoy heavy appetizers, a cash bar, and opportunities to meet and mingle with the Accelerator entrepreneurs, as they showcase their food system innovations.
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Featuring:
Moderator:
Dawn Danby, Sr. Sustainable Design Program Manager, Autodesk
VIP Judges:
Janine Benyus, Co-founder, Biomimicry Institute
Zem Joaquin, Editor-at-Large, Huffington Post
Will Rosenzweig, Dean and Executive Director, Food Business School
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Innovative modular gardening system wins the student Living Product Prize.
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Soon, it may be even easier to grow healthy food, right in your own home.
Using inspiration from bees, the lobed comb jellyfish, the Suriname sea toad, and the earth’s water cycle, a team from California State University, Long Beach developed a water and space-efficient home gardening system that captured the 2016 student Living Product Prize.
The Living Product Prize, a new initiative of the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge created in partnership with the International Living Future Institute, highlights design products that mimic nature’s design principles and function as elegantly as anything found in the natural world. Learn more.
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Accelerator team wins prize in Thailand
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The teams in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge Accelerator continue to win awards in their home regions for their food system innovations.
Team BioX, one of the seven teams currently enrolled in the Accelerator program, was selected to pitch at the Startup Thailand Summit in Bangkok. As a result, they won a prestigious award to be part of the regional HATCH Incubator by KMUTT.
Congratulations to the whole team! They will also compete for the $100,000 Ray C. Anderson Foundation "Ray of Hope" Prize at Bioneers in October 2016.
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More biomimicry news:
Radiolab explores the hidden world beneath the forest floor - a place that "we're just beginning to untangle and map."
The Guardian reports on the wide-ranging benefits kids get when schools incorporate nature deeply into learning and design.
"Won’t it be cool when we can’t find a city from Google Earth because it’s so green?" Interior Design Magazine interviews Margaret Mongomery, the sustainable design lead at architecture firm NBBJ, about biomimicry in the built environment.
How do hundreds of thousands of bats in Texas' Hill Country pour out a cave into the night to forage, in mere minutes? Using high-speed cameras, bioGraphic gives us a peek into this nightly summer spectacle.
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Nature's hidden lessons
The Biomimicry Institute's Adiel Gavish shows us how to appreciate "not how information is provided, but that wisdom is imparted in many beautifully diverse and fantastical ways."
Read more.
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The secret to engaging employees could be right outside your window
What might we learn from nature about creating engaging workplaces? Biomimicry educator and author Denise DeLuca explores how we can use biomimicry to create conditions for employees to feel engaged. Read more.
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As a non-profit, we depend on supporters like you to help us share the vast potential of nature-inspired design worldwide.
Learn more about how to support our work.
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Living Product Expo 2016
September 13-15, 2016, Pittsburgh, PA
The Living Product Expo is an accelerator for product innovation and the leading event for designers, manufacturers, and CSR professionals to connect around the latest trends in sustainable products. Join us in the collaborative design process as we craft a healthy and inclusive materials economy.
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Get 10% off the cost of a Conference Pass with the code BIOINST10. This discount does not apply to the Guest Pass or tickets to tours, workshops, or summits, nor is it retroactively applicable or combinable with other Conference Pass discounts. Register here.
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Joint Global Conference on Biomimicry and Bioinspired Innovation
November 11-13, 2016, Utrecht, Netherlands
This conference aims to share experiences and explore what may be done to achieve more impact with biomimicry and bio-inspired innovation by aligning research and practice. Innovators, researchers, entrepreneurs, students, decision makers, designers, and anyone else interested in biomimicry and bio-inspired innovation are welcome to attend.
Learn more and register here.
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GreenBiz VERGE 16
September 19-22, 2016, Santa Clara, CA
Accelerate the Clean Economy at VERGE 16. Join the diverse, cross-sector audience of 1,500+ leaders exploring business opportunities and solutions at the intersection of technology and sustainability. Save 10% with code V16BIO here: http://grn.bz/v16bio
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Bioneers 2016
October 21-23, 2016, San Rafael, CA
Join fellow nature-lovers to celebrate biomimicry at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference this October. From a keynote by Janine Benyus, to an award event for the first-ever $100,000 Ray C. Anderson Foundation "Ray of Hope" Prize, to plenty of opportunities to learn, connect, and explore, this year's Bioneers conference shouldn't be missed.
Register with the code BIOMIMICRY and save 15%!
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Biomimicry basics and beyond
Online course
Learn how to apply biomimicry to any challenge, whenever and wherever you are. In this self-paced, online course, instructor Denise DeLuca will show you a step-by-step method for turning nature's strategies into innovative solutions for human problems. You’ll not only learn the "what" and "why" of biomimicry, you’ll learn how to apply the Biomimicry Design Spiral to solve technical and non-technical problems. Register here.
This course is approved by the GBCI for 4 CEUs.
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