Biologist, American co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8, world's leading consultancies and training in biomimicry, Janine Benyus has popularised the concept of biomimicry in 1997. It highlights the limitations of our civilization energy-intensive model and the need to learn from nature. The approach that it advocates intends to reconcile progress and respect for the environment. Janine Benyus explains his vision of biomimicry...
"I set the biomimicry as being art to draw shapes, processes and ecosystems in nature to innovate sustainably. Indeed, as scientists, we have everything to learn strategies for living. This principle is manifest, but yet far from clear... Industrial civilization believed to be able to free itself from nature and even exceed. We we're raw powerful, at the head of an infallible technological arsenal. However, at the beginning of 21st century, the man arrived at a turning point in its evolution. Nature tolerance limits have been reached, leading us to this crucial question: "how to live on our planet without destroying the.
While we have no known or wanted to do, nature always has. She always imagined solutions for solving of the problems that we, ourselves, face. What's better than 3.8 billion years of experience in sustainable development? It is rather a good CV! If science has very often copied nature, it is in has not duplicated the principles of survival. This is not only to copy an animal because its form attracted us, but draw on his philosophy of efficient and sustainable production. We must consider these organisms as experts. They were able to do everything we need, without using fossil fuels, without polluting the planet or mortgage their future. Which model best hope? It is sufficient to observe the animals, plants and micro-organisms to realize that these are experienced engineers and that they have found what works and especially what is on Earth.
Many examples are present in nature and are rich in teaching. If you want to know how to filter salt water for example, just ask the sea turtles or even our own kidneys that are doing this without resorting to electricity! Indeed, each cell, each red blood cell of our body is hourglass-shaped pores called aquaporins. These filter water on one side and leave the other dissolved substances. It is a kind of non-reverse osmosis. A process that interested companies, which have already begun to experiment with it. What need us? More biomimicry. designers, scientists, engineers and other business leaders that will appeal to the biomimicry to solve our energy crisis, our food problems and security, the toxicity of our materials. It is to meet this need we receive now applications to participate in our program of specialization in biomimicry, lasting eight months, including a session will take place in Europe (Netherlands) in the spring of 2013. Our participants, like so many others, include the biomimicry is just a new way to see and valuing nature, it is also the path of our survival. "Source: SUEZ environment Magazine n ° 11, November 2012
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