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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl AT intrex.net>]

Martin Naylor wrote:

> hi
> have you considered corosponding with www.biomimicry.net 
> <http://www.biomimicry.net>, they love investigating and copying nature.
> martin 

From that site, these inspiring words:
"
Nature as Model:        
Biomimicry is a new science that studies nature's models and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve 
human problems, e.g., a solar cell inspired by a leaf.

Nature as Mentor:       
Biomimicry uses an ecological standard to judge the "rightness" of our innovations. After 3.8 billion years of evolution, nature has 
learned: What works. What is appropriate. What lasts.

Nature as Measure:      
Biomimicry is a new way of viewing and valuing nature. It introduces an era based not on what we can extract from the natural world, but on 
what we can learn from it.
"

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L.F.London
lfl AT intrex.net
http://market-farming.com
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech