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October 22, 2004

[PT] Janine Benyus

Janine Benyus talks about biomimicry: the conscious imitation of nature's genius.

She's going to give us "12 big ideas from biology" about how life sustains life. I'm sure not to get them all.

1. self-assembly
2. chemistry in water
3. solar transformations
4. the power of shape - from efficient fans to color without pigments to cldean without detergents
5. materials as systems
6. natural selection as an innovation engine
7. material recycling
8. ecosystems that greow folds - seware plants that mimic marshes
9. energy-savvy movement and transport
10.
11. sensing and responding - locusts don't collide
12. life creates conditions conducive to life

Great information. So many amazing examples, which I have not captured. (Sorry!)

[It just isn't right that we're halfway through PopTech before we've heard from a woman. It's worse than that. It's shameful.]

Here's an article on self-cleaning cars that uses the same technique as the lotus flower: Shape instead of detergents. (Found by Wayne Pethrick, posted on the PopTech chat.)

Posted by D. Weinberger at October 22, 2004 12:05 PM

Comments

Exactly right about gender balance.

Attached some links to the list over at worldchanging:

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001449.html

Posted by: Alex Steffen | October 22, 2004 12:09 PM

Don't hold your breath for the next half. I see no more women on the schedule of speakers that is being broadcast.

Posted by: Michael Silves | October 22, 2004 06:10 PM

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