Janine Benyus Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Janine Benyus:
There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.
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Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earth's most precious gift.
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Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.
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Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
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Per capita, I would say that Australia has more biomimetic projects going than many other countries I've been to.
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Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get.
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The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.
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Life doesn't use detergent to clean itself.
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Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents combined - about 100,000.
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Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.
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Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.
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For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.
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Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.
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Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.
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Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.
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We're basically this very young species, only 200,000 years old. We're one of the newcomers, and we're going through the same process that other species go through, which is, how do I keep myself alive while taking care of the place that's going to keep my offspring alive?
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Glue actually contaminates recyclables. We throw things in a landfill just because they're glued together.
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Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.
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Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.
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There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.
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Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.
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Life creates conditions conducive to life.
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