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[Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>]

Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:

> http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/000029.html
>
> Biomimicry - the redesign of industrial processes and products based 
> on new understandings of how natural systems and creatures accomplish 
> similar ends - may be the most promising branch of the growing 
> sustainable design movement.
>
> As Janine Benyus puts it:
>
> "Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) 
> is a new science that studies nature's best ideas and then imitates 
> these designs and processes to solve human problems. Studying a leaf 
> to invent a better solar cell is an example. I think of it as 
> "innovation inspired by nature."
>
> "The core idea is that nature, imaginative by necessity, has already 
> solved many of the problems we are grappling with. Animals, plants, 
> and microbes are the consummate engineers. They have found what works, 
> what is appropriate, and most important, what lasts here on Earth. 
> This is the real news of biomimicry: After 3.8 billion years of 
> research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us 
> is the secret to survival.
Before there was biomimicry, there was permaculture, different words 
same solutions.
Scott