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
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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.)

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