Stories About Biomimicry
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Winners of Biomimicry, Forward Food Competitions Tackle Food Waste, Behavior Change Challenges
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - Both the Biomimicry Institute and Net Impact launched food-focused competitions earlier this year, seeking innovative ideas for new products or services. This week, the winners of the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge and Forward Food Competition were announced.
Biomimicry Design Challenge Expands to Include $10K Living Product Prize
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - The annual competition from the Biomimicry Insititute is spreading its wings: The Biomimicry Global Design Challenge (BGDC) is expanding to include the Living Product Prize.
8 Finalists Join First-Ever Biomimicry Accelerator on Mission to Feed 9 Billion
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - The 2015 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge (BGDC) attracted hundreds of ideas inspired by nature from nearly 2000 designers, architects, biologists, engineers, students, nature-lovers, and food enthusiasts from over 70 countries to rethink our food system. This week, the first-round finalist teams were announced and invited to attend a biomimicry celebration and awards event in Austin, Texas on October 4.
New Biomimicry Center, Graduate Degree Programs Put ASU at Forefront of Emerging Discipline
LEADERSHIP - A new cooperative venture at Arizona State University aims to make ASU a key academic hub for the emerging discipline of biomimicry. Since Janine Benyus first observed and named the field in her 1997 book, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, designers, engineers, businesses and other innovators have increasingly turned to nature in search of inspired ideas.
MCAD Offering Free Online Biomimicry Design Course
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - The Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) has partnered with Canvas.net to offer a free, open online course called, Biomimicry: A Sustainable Design Methodology. The course is an introduction to biomimicry, a sustainability framework that studies nature’s best design ideas to help us solve our own design challenges.
2015 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge Offering $100K to Nature-Inspired Solutions to Global Food Challenges
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION - On Tuesday, the Biomimicry Institute and the Ray C. Anderson Foundation announced that the latest Biomimicry Global Design Challenge — an annual competition that invites people around the world to address critical sustainability issues using nature as a guide — is now accepting entries for commercially viable, nature-inspired solutions to this year’s theme: food system challenges. The grand prize, to be awarded in 2016, is $100,000.
