Innovation inspired by nature Biomimicry（创新的灵感来自大自然生物仿生）.pdf

The 2002 book, Biomimicry, describes a new science that studies nature’s best ideas and then imitates these designs and processes to provide innovative and sustainable solutions for industry and research development. Author and international expert, Janine Benyus, is now focusing on working with industry and governments across the globe to implement her ideas. She will be touring Australia with the team from The Natural Edge Project in May. Peter Nguyen Innovation inspired by nature Biomimicry Janine Benyus believes that by treating 1. Nature runs on sunlight nature as ‘model, measure and mentor’, 2. Nature uses only the energy it needs Australian companies, governments and 3. Nature fits form to function universities are in a strong position to take 4. Nature recycles everything advantage of the leading edge opportuni- 5. Nature rewards cooperation ties provided by the emerging field of what 6. Nature banks on diversity she has coined ‘biomimicry’. 7. Nature demands local expertise The idea is that, during its 3.8 billion 8. Nature curbs excesses from within years of research and development, nature 9. Nature taps the power of limits. has evolved highly efficient systems and processes that can inform solutions to As a biologist, the question for Benyus is many of the waste, resource efficiency and not whether our technology is natural, but management problems that we now how well adapted it is to life on Earth over grapple with today. the long term. She says that engineers, Biomimicry has already provided some scientists, architects and design