Biomimicry in action | Janine Benyus

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15 жыл бұрын

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Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Here she reveals dozens of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular results.
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@Pixelon_ 3 жыл бұрын

upsetting this only has 200k views in 11 years... i actually searched for this

@bwp2bruce 12 жыл бұрын

How Janine Benyus is not yet considered for a Nobel Prize is beyond me.

@1schwererziehbar1 14 жыл бұрын

old idea. VERY old idea.

@jameshughes9288

Creation screams praises to the creator but not us, we attribute this brilliance to a universe that exploded into existence out of nothing and self assembled...sad and foolish, where has our reason gone

@ehhhhhhhhhh 14 жыл бұрын

This presentation warms my heart.. it seems there might be a future for us on this planet after all.

@MartynaBizdra 8 жыл бұрын

We are surrounded by genius... we are geniuses, who have forgotten about it. Love for the idea of biomimicry...

@FTLNewsFeed 14 жыл бұрын

Actually her talk is about how nature, over millions of years has found the optimal designs (in most cases, not all) through evolutionary algorithms that allow for increasingly complex and intricate designs where at first everything was clunky and through successive generations and mutations bad designs were weeded out and better ones kept. That we are still at that "clunky design" phase and could do well to use those same algorithms to our advantage.

@GMLSX 15 жыл бұрын

OK, i checked it. All Pictures belong to MB. Hm..... why is my previous comment to you not displayed?

@RealEstateInsider247 8 жыл бұрын

Intelligent, incredible design doesn't happen by accident.

@earthspeed

Biomimicry, I want to design a pedestrian park in the center of a small town. With a focus on Biomimicry, can you give me suggestions? in March there are strong winds. At summer in Greece, we have high temperatures. The area is 17 meters wide and 450 meter long. What should I consider, what should I avoid, and more?

@AndyLiBlue 6 жыл бұрын

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@coppertop1963 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Janine Benyus for this Ted talk. Been trying to rebound in health and while I do, I look at biophilic design & mimicry as a huge hope for now and the future. I'm working on a kids' model building to help get the word out because this is the way to unite people in hope. At this time when media spreads climate destruction news, I look to these things to lift my own spirit and move forward with my own projects.

@cherylclough1804 Жыл бұрын

Janine Benyus is a great inspiration. Although she gives old news, she has news and models for our times.

@projectmalus 5 жыл бұрын

The website she mentions is

@mooxim 14 жыл бұрын

that was brilliant. I knew we had looked at birds for flight and sharks for hydrodynamics but I didn't appreciate just how much nature had to offer.

@franl155 14 жыл бұрын

found this by accident, loved it! found the two websites she mentions, gonna devour them later.

@TakeTheGreenPill 15 жыл бұрын

Great Job! I LOVE EVERYONE WHO IS ON THIS CHANNEL! THANK YOU FOR KEEPING US ALIVE!

@danfromabove 13 жыл бұрын

Hell to the yeah. Permaculture design + biomimicry = the future

@dorisbenjamin1803 2 жыл бұрын

Superb presentation all should know one needs to learn from nature.

@Diddmund 12 жыл бұрын

Inspiring... and I'm not very easily inspired anymore; I was made dull and complacent and learned taking everything for granted, growing up. But for the last couple of years I've been trying to unlearn the misinformation, lies and blindness! Thanks to inspirational people like her - Janine Benyus - and others, for instance Carl Sagan, I've been re-learning how to appreciate all this wonder that is our existence! It's easy to notice just the ugliness, but to see the beauty... is spectacular!