TEDTalk Tuesday: 12 sustainable design ideas from nature

[Occulus]

This week's TEDTALKTUESDAY presents the concept of biomimicry, and how we can be inspired by nature's designs to help us build a greener future. From plumbing to fiberoptics, this talk shows us how nature has already solved the design problems we face through uncountable trillions of individual field tests, which result in overall sustainability for the next ten thousand generations.

Enjoy!

JANINEBENYUS

12 sustainable design ideas from nature (video runtime: 23:24)



Janine Benyus

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About this Talk

With 3.8 billion years of research and development on its side, nature has already solved problems that human designers and engineers still struggle with. In this inspiring talk, Janine Benyus provides fascinating examples of biomimicry -- the way humans mimic nature in the products we build and the systems we implement. And because the champion adapters in the natural world are, by definition, those that can survive without destroying the environment that sustains them, biomimicry can contribute to the long-term health of our planet.

[Occulus]

1. Kicking for the people who want to look at "something else" for a while

:D

[Occulus]

2. And a final kick for the evening crowd n/t