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BIOMIMICRY IN ACTION

https://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_biomimicry_in_action

“Biomimicry is an approach to innovation that seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies”.

https://biomimicry.org/what-is-biomimicry/

Nature is not just pretty pictures, it is a path to solving our resource problems and not limited to just that, it has been solving and evolving through the issues we are currently grappling with.
Janine Benyus just shows us some examples of how simple nature has inspired some giant advances in our time, and encourages us to explore and step up to look at what surrounds us while attempting to resolve problems, most likely nature could not only provide us with the muse but the cure as well.
Biomimicry has applications and integrations all over our context, from fabrics and materials to storage and consumption of resources, with our growing concerns for sustainability, simple codes in nature could provide us with answers, all we need is vigilance and an open mind.   
“What's happening now, in this field called biomimicry, is that people are beginning to remember that organisms, other organisms, the rest of the natural world, are doing things very similar to what we need to do. But in fact, they are doing them in a way that have allowed them to live gracefully on this planet for billions of years. So, these people, bio mimics, are nature's apprentices. And they're focusing on function. What I'd like to do is show you a few of the things that they're learning. They have asked themselves, "What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'"”
Janine Benyus.
We have come a long way, from ape to masters of the world, making dams and controlling rivers to cutting down mountains. We have build new islands in the oceans and made cities in deserts with grass and lakes, but now we need to learn how to co-exist with nature, find a balance without exploitation.

What ever we are sourcing comes from the Earth, and if we don’t stop and invest in our future by conserving and protecting our planet or we could come to a point where the well could dry up.  

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