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WHAT IS NATURE?
Photo Credit: Gord McKenna CC-BY-NC
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HUMAN DESIGN
• Mining - 39 billion tons/yr• Heat trea9ng - over 1,400 °C (releases 6% of GHG)• Packaging• Shipping
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MAL-ADAPTED DESIGN
Heat, beat, and treat• High temperatures• High pressures• Toxic chemical processes
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NATURE’S DESIGN
Stony coral• Built to shape• Created on site
• Uses CO2 as a building block• Waste-free
• 450 million year old process Photo Credit: NOAA, public domain
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BIOINSPIRATION or BIOMIMICRY
• Nature has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with.
• Animals, plants, and microbes are engineers. They have found what works, what is appropriate, and what lasts here on Earth.
• But evolution works on “just good enough” principle. And it has many constraints to deal with.
• So maybe we can be inspired by nature – and then improve on it while still adhering to Life’s principles.
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A RECURRING THEME
“Human ingenuity may make various inven9ons…but it will never devise any inven9ons more beau9ful,nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than Nature does; because in her inven9ons nothing iswan9ng and nothing is superfluous.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
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ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS
(Re)ConnectPhoto Credit: Denali Na9onal Park, CC-BY
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ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS
Emulate© Mary Hansel, used with permission
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A MATTER OF SCALE
Form - shape, surface, texture Process - a series of opera:ons Ecosystem - a network opera:ngtogether in an ongoing cycle
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SEEING DIFFERENTLY
LEARNING ABOUT:
• Scien9fic name:Pinus ponderosa
• Found in low - mideleva9ons throughoutthe U.S.
• USDA Hardiness Zones3-7
• Important U.S. 9mberspecies
• Needles 5-10” long, inclusters of 3
Ponderosa Pine Photo Credit: J Stephen Conn, CC-BY-NC
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SEEING DIFFERENTLY
LEARNING ABOUT:
• Scien9fic name:Pinus ponderosa
• Found in low - mideleva9ons throughout
the U.S.
• USDA Hardiness Zones3-7
• Important U.S. 9mberspecies
• Needles 5-10” long, inclusters of 3
Ponderosa Pine
LEARNING FROM:
• Leaves create solarenergy without toxins
• Xylem transports waterhundreds of feet without
fuel.
• Canopy re-humidifies air
• Uses CO2 as a buildingmaterial
• Expertly light-weightedmaterials
Photo Credit: J Stephen Conn, CC-BY-NC
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THANK YOUFor sharing biomimicrywith your students.
Visit ben.biomimicry.net to accessaddi9onal teaching resources.
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