12 sustainable design ideas from nature | Janine Benyus

www.ted.com In this inspiring talk about recent developments in biomimicry, Janine Benyus provides heartening examples of ways in which nature is already influencing the products and systems we build.
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[@croneproject]

I love the biomimicry movement! Its the most inspiring thing going right now.

[@earthgoddesswinton7823]

I agree Theresa. I'm in Education, and have apage, Eco-School Environmental Conservation Project. Please join.

[@youareme888]

i love you guys on the internet

[@nebdasthebarbarian]

1. Self Assembly 2. Co2 as feedstock 3. solar transformations 4. The power of shape 5. quenching thirst 6. metals without mining 7. green chemistry 8. timed degradation

[@Elite46Racing]

where's the rest 😭

[@RobertLRuisi]

I am thrilled to have watched this I can't begin to say enough Janine Benyus hats off. I firmly believe we are the caretakers of the garden and you are on the threshold of doing just that. I am just so so... Humble thanks for everything you are doing.

[@dustin628]

This was in 2007. So what happened? Did all this research get defunded when the economy crashed? We need these technologies now more than ever.

[@glenredman8321]

It's a growing field actually, but too few people in business know what it is and the need for it. I'm actually studying it as a Master's degree now. Biomimicry is awesome!!

[@younesdc4415]

@@glenredman8321 hello glen. i'd like to study it too. can i contact you to know where to have this master.

[@glenredman8321]

@@younesdc4415 Hi Younes. Always willing to talk and make new connections. I'm studying it through the online program at Arizona State University. It's entirely online at this point (and I have a lot of classmates overseas) so definitely check it out no matter where you are. they offer both a 1yr Graduate Certificate and a 2yr Master's degree.

[@martinhuet7558]

@@glenredman8321 Hi Glen. I'm French and I have a scientific project at school and I'd like it to be on biomimicry. Can I please contact you to talk about this with you? We could chat about this subject and its various applications and maybe you could give me some advice from the moment you're actually studying this ! Please keep me posted, thanks :)

[@glenredman8321]

@Martin Huet, i’m always willing to help the sciences. my current email is thewrongthreat@gmail, let’s talk talk there and set up a video call👍

[@MsGnor]

Janine speaks beautifully. Love this talk.

[@Slance1Himself]

I love her mimic and way of talking, she talks and she makes you interested... One of the best speakers!

[@eliasshedd]

Thank you Janine Benyus. Hearing you speak on learning from the natural world is inspiring. I am interested in learning ethics and morality from the natural world. Finding behavior in the natural world that builds life, rules that maximize productivity, effectiveness and that do so in a sustanible way. Systems that naturally adapt and discovering the natural(biological) principles that allow this to happen.

[@VliengWieng]

Wow, she's so passionate! This lady kicks ass!

[@RevRaeaSunshine]

I absolutely love this. This evening I attended a "Go Local" event in Tacoma, WA which was very much focused on sustainability and utilizing natural resources. It was wonderful to see that consciousness really is shifting and this new awareness is permeating even some of the most unanticipated places. Thank you for your wonderful message. I'm so excited to watch humanity become more alive than ever before! Shift is Happening!!

[@Zieqster]

Doing it now for 1st year architecture, Technology of Design.

[@mikeshinn1407]

This is inspirational. What we can learn from nature offers real hope for solving some of the intractable problems we face, such as using less energy, reducing pollution, living in harmony with the environment.

[@Matthitizidu]

Awesome!! Love where this is headed

[@earthgoddesswinton7823]

Great Video Janie Benyus, it is so exciting to learn about this new design focus. Thank you.

[@E4C09]

Some really amazing ideas and concepts, and great conference presentation. Not at all dry or boring. It also shows how limited our knowledge of the natural world really is.

[@MaximKhantaev]

What a smart person she is. Truly amazing. I'd like to spend a few month with her just listening to her brilliance without interrupting.

[@geniennis]

most inspiring gr8 stuff Thanks for the presentation and for posting the video. Keep up the good work. Geniennis, Wexford, Ireland.

[@Oshbotscom]

Great presentation, excellent speaker.

[@mykolakindrat8398]

This is Phenomenal !!! Bravo.

[@susanobrant7998]

Thank you!!

[@cherylclough1804]

Reshared this today. This is one of those videos that does not date. If you can bring it into current feeds, it deserves it.

[@MBAPSYconsultant]

Absolutely Amazing!!

[@musplayer]

brilliant material. brilliant speaker.

[@painet1776]

Nature is the best teacher.

[@MacKroupensky]

brilliant!

[@MBAPSYconsultant]

I will watch this again and again

[@muhajusupov9670]

Doing mine for first year architecture!!

[@kerrymckenna]

Makes me feel like crying at the possabilities waiting for us. I wish I could come back to this planet in 100 years times just to see the amazing way in which we had interacted with nature....fabulous...

[@MrAfg1992]

Thank you so much saved so much time!! :D

[@AdnanDuaneRazack]

Brilliant...our future in the making. I may actually have some hope again!

[@FrenchConcrete]

Wonderful!

[@boscombefun]

TED rocks. great talk.

[@sarasadattejareh4978]

The lessons were really nice... we should really step into learning FROM the nature, and not only about the nature ...and then we would realise that there should be great consciousness behind all these miracles, who add data to matter!

[@MBAPSYconsultant]

Absolutely Amazing!! It shows that this really is the Garden of Eden ... it is only through our ignorance that we turn it into a hell, by ignoring the wisdom gifted to us through nature. Thank you for sharing this amazing video on KZbin! :)

[@bonniesanders4131]

Very inspirational.

[@FN-dx2io]

brilliant presentation

[@kevinward3261]

the whole fractal fibannoci platonic thing i think is relevant here. with regards to optimizing spacial efficiency in architecture and such.

[@TheSIDHARTH007]

Super... just amazing.....!!!

[@HuckleberrySlim]

I think ted should be once a month, and that we should all be privileged enough to see the results of this cross-fertilization of ideas that takes place off-screen. If they are bridging all fields of research together, I want to see the bridges too!

[@akoanani]

this is really great..

[@natalynflores3869]

1. Self assembly --Shell --Bio-Silicon 2. CO2 as a Feedstock 3. Solar Transformations 4. The Power of Shape --Color without pigments --Clean without detergents 5. Quenching Thirst 6. Metals without Mining 7. Green Chemistry 8. Timed Degradation* 9. Resilience and Healing 10. Sensing and Responding 11. Growing Fertility 12. Life Creates Conditions Conducive to Life

[@mipatriabella]

Awesome!!!

[@douglaslopez2211]

awesome!

[@CCarterWF]

Very inspiring video.

[@3bbblz]

Janine is a legend!

[@melissabrooks1890]

Very informative.

[@Terrible_Peril]

ideas that are often simply not taken into consideration when coming up with other technologies. great, though provoking stuff. and the fact that people are already coming up with things out of these ideas gives the talk much more umph than some others of pure design.

[@k6yardotcom]

awesome! I love creating Nature Videos!

[@Dhragonfly]

this has to be one of the best, aside from the Sylvia Earle TED episode. 5 stars for sure

[@DanielkaElliott]

this looks cutting edge 13 years later in 2020. i can't believe all this stuff was known so long ago and posted on youtube.

[@chuckinator0]

Great ideas here. I also strongly agree with Boolze

[@rockersdrinkbelte]

We designers from BUE MUSCHIATO DESIGN are with you! Excellent ideas!

[@MolecularSynergy]

Nature and Biomimicry are in my opinion the best schools.

[@Driven000009]

Yes so true. One of the things I really enjoy about these talks is that you can see these are the people that are actually coming up with the ideas, and not some spokesperson. I think for quite a few people, it's just too much of a challenge to focus on the content instead of the presenter.

[@pauljmeyer1]

Whenever reckless resource plundering occurs, the possibility to explore natural assets diminishes accordingly.

[@krishantsingh18]

realii helped with my research :) xx

[@CozterDonnyl]

I like the idea of biomimicry and it's intention to reduce or even eliminate our dependence on our present technology, the only thing that cause the problem is when it comes to production, It is nice if producing this technology without creating any problem which is the main issue we are facing in our present day industry. The industry that is the main culprit of this environmental mess. And are we ready for the changes? and who will decide? it's not the consumer but the manufacturing sector.

[@cathyrice9631]

Wow. Surprising.

[@chakazul]

a recap of the 12 points: 1.self-assembly (pearl, computers without carcinogens, lenses from seawater) 2.CO2 as feedstock 3.solar transformation 4.power of shape (fins, color without pigments, clean without detergents) 5.quenching thirst (water from air) 6.metals without mineral 7.green chemistry (spider web) 8.timed degradation (mussel shell) 9.resilience and healing (vaccines) 10.sensing responding (locust won't collide) 11.growing fertility 12.life creates condition conducive to life

[@oggleman]

Yes good point, because it makes much more sense to postulate an intelligent designer behind it all who for some odd reason does not require a designer himself.

[@kev3d]

Very exciting

[@MBAPSYconsultant]

#AMAZING #VIDEO! 1ofTheBEST in #TedTalks MyFavorite -> #JanineBenyus: 12 #sustainable #Design #Ideas from #Nature :)

[@LokiumBadger]

billions of years of evolution leads to the most miraculous structures, this research shows alot of promise, i cant wait to see it develope

[@WaliG]

More impact-ful if you don't use all capitalization in the slides. Some great questions posed, such as: "How does life make things?"

[@WaliG]

Wali G "What can get us beyond this evolutionary knot-hole that we are in?"(10:30)

[@depalandepalan1911]

terrific

[@joshuacrow4616]

Interesting!

[@revu88]

thts very interesing talk

[@visamap]

thank u all very much

[@irenetemple5748]

Interesting topic. :)

[@jesusramos8761]

good job.

[@reyn66]

well done.

[@carlossanchez-pg7ij]

I loved❤

[@waitat94]

BRAVO #^_^ Learning from the NATURE WORLD!!!!!!!!!

[@Kotesu]

I am an electronics engineer. You don't need to be one to make things. The world doesn't need more engineers: it needs people who can not only make and design, but are humble and bold enough to question why we do what we do, and find better solutions in the most uncommon of places.

[@BeachofDreams]

The main criticism I have about biomimicry is that you can, at any point, call any design biomimetic. Aeroplanes are thus examples, according to the method, of biomimicry because they fly and do what birds do. Moreover, you can't always take a solution found in one ecological context - say, giant lilypad structures - and apply it to something in a different context - floating cities, for instance. And not only is there a problem of context but of scale. See the Biosphere 2 expm't.

[@rfnecio]

Excellent talk..."there is no new thing under the sun", solution to problems is just out there with the rest of the "creation"... we just need to pay attention.

[@ElyBritto]

Many years ago, science began a new branch named Cybernetics (nature´s imitation)! That new science was destroyed, maybe for economics interests. It survived! Wonderful!

[@Enigma758]

Cybernetics formed the basis of modern control theory. It's still very much around, it's just that we call it by a different name.

[@fijnman3813]

Arent they called hippies?

[@adamdavis5243]

Locust avoidance system is quite a simple one. they only have to keep from crashing into the nearest locust to it. and when they all use that system none of them crash into one another. something similar to auto-assisted parking and lane merging.

[@celaine8088]

best comment ever

[@metal571]

@sw33t65 indeed, for a Creative Design class at my college.

[@carrieadyer]

amazing.

[@DanZhangTall]

@evanplaice How do you conclude that the progress in IT is positive or "codusive to life" in the long run? How do you know that at the current course, humans are simply on the fast track to its own demise? Nature maybe slow in your definition but it is sustainable. That's the whole point.

[@citizenschallengeYT]

You're right I had no right and little justification for jumping to that conclusions. Guess I was just ranting. I've reread your posts and though I don't necessarily agree with your tone - I see you make some valid points. sorry... happy new year ;-)

[@Enki1013]

You know what else would be a good idea for the self-cleaning surfaces? Cars.

[@Shetu24]

I nearly choked seeing the demolition of falling water.

[@hurstdonut]

@tsukiko140 - my friend, this world - it seems, especially the U.S. Nation and the capitalistic corporations who feed the hedonistic consumers that support them, they are in "it" for profit, not for benefit. Simply put

[@bkastrinos]

The genius of the natural world...so difficult to avoid words like design, genius, plan. Time and chance, just a wonderful delusion of reality. So wise, yet we just don't get it.

[@richNfit4life]

Very cool. Those sensors that prevent collisions maybe could be used with satellites orbiting the earth. There are, supposedly, thousands of them circling the planet, and some do crash into others creating 1000's of pieces that need to be tracked. Who gets that job? Not a fun job, but these sensors can eliminate his/her/its job...maybe. Of course, that would mean they a way was found to eliminate of those pieces that are already up there moving at high speeds.

[@Sbhabhi]

Janine Benyus. I SALUTE YOU

[@HarrisonsFord]

You cannot separate the consumer and manufacturing sector, or demand from supply, when talking about impacts of the commercial world. Both want and the fulfillment of it are issues to be addressed simultaneously, I think.

[@MarkMarotta1992]

UOIT ENVS1000, signing in.

[@Joe22c]

Oh for certain; I'll agree that natural selection is not a freak accident, but nor is it the "opposite of [a] freak accident." What I said was it's better described as "an amalgam of millions of freak accidents" some of which result in survival and reproductive advantage while some of which do not. etc. It would be just as misleading, if not more so IMO, to say natural selection is the "exact opposite" of a freak accident because it gives the false sense that it occurs with a preset goal.

[@Hallibutbouy]

Turning it back into eden!!

[@mooktank]

The thing is, do these organisms do these things to compensate with their environment or do they both change with eachother? I don't think there really is a causal relationship. They're acting together. We, however don't feel like we should be part of that action.

[@bagelx]

TED, TED, TED. thanks for letting her finish...

[@dmt1994]

"Genius of the natural world" Sounds like a genius made it.

[@TheJagdNinja]

Around 10:00 is when she starts naming off the ideas........for anyone 'interested.'

[@MrJodenkoek1]

Why all these great ideas and still afther 9 years almost no progress? Stil a great video.

[@indycarr3964]

+MrJodenkoek1 Who will they put out of business with these cost effective ideas? She has a battle she is not aware of!

[@clickaccept]

Once they've got money from the public with propaganda pieces like this, they bugger off with the cash. They are playing off the popular myth that scientists are fighting against nature and need to be told what to do by "normal" people. Its BS.

[@passarmr]

AMEN SISTER

[@celaine8088]

lol I know, it was iffy there for a second! :)