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Biomimicry


Med_honeyhouse2Med_honeybee2 Biomimicry is a technical discipline that takes inspiration from natural organism shapes and forms to develop new engineering solutions and industrial designs that imitate nature's designs.

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mimicking nature, science, model, design, ecological principle, product, process, feedback system, sustainable, ecological standard, biomimetics, design by nature, biological design, environmental sustainability, industrial design, economics, business, technology, green chemistry

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Biomimetics Network for Industrial Sustainability promotes the application of Biomimetics (Design Inspired by Nature) in products and services and its use in education and training.

Biomimicry Institute naturalizes biomimicry in the culture by promoting the transfer of ideas, designs, and strategies from biology to sustainable human systems design.

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Design For Life: The Architecture of
Sim Van der Ryn

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Ecological Design
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Use less, waste none.

 

The purpose of WholEarth Development  Corporation is to purchase land and save habitat and to use the WholEarth System

to build homes and communities with people for the environment.

 

WholEarth System was designed  to simplify the complex nature of sustainability and to find ways prosper as a result.

 

Housing, water, food, energy and occupation are the five elements that are provided by this planet

for the direct benefit of all living things.

 

Soft green design uses biomimicry, service and flow, and extreme resource productivity so that  our species can more easily coexist with all other species well into the future.

 

The WholEarth System of soft green development can be applied to any form of human habitation.

 

I'm looking for a paying project that will design and build the WholEarth Home / Building and to demonstrate complete sustainability.

 

If you can help please contact me.

818-266-3834

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trmcgee over 2 years ago
There is also the Biomimicry Guild. The Guild is the first and only (so far) Innovation Consultancy for Bio-Inspired Design. We should add that to the page:

www.biomimicryguild.com
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