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Biomimicry has been a featured topic of discussion and the subject of presentations at a range of recent conferences including Industrial Ecology 2000, The Natural Step annual conference, Bioneers and EnvironDesign 5. This new methodology offers science, industry, municipalities, even individuals, a new way of accessing nature’s intelligence and principles of design.

Janine Benyus, author of the book “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, and presenter at the above-mentioned conferences, provided us with a description of biomimicry and its significance to the way it can shape the future.

Biomimicry (from bios, meaning ‘life,’ and mimesis, meaning ‘to imitate’) is a design principle that …