Biomimicry – a nature-based approach to designing sustainable futures

By Richard Dawson, Lewis Winks

Issue 381 | Page 43 | Published Jun 2021

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Nature has 3.8 billion years of evolution experience. Can we learn from nature's forms, patterns and processes to design a more sustainable world? Biomimicry offers some of the solutions.

Science and nature

Sustainability

Biomimicry

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