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Nature is more than the sum of its parts. Explore the connections between individual biological strategies, innovations, or educational resources as leading thinkers, scientists, artists, and others reflect on unifying themes in biomimicry.
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Wild Ideas: The Biomimicry of the Arctic Tundra
On the Alaskan tundra, where snow can fall any day of the year and summer’s warmth is fleeting, life responds to formidable challenges in ingenious ways.
How Does Nature Break Down the Old to Create the New?
When we understand how nature breaks down complex structures to supply materials for new growth, we learn to see waste as a vital nutrient. This wisdom can turn fashion’s waste problem into a new path forward.
Ray of Hope Accelerator Gallery
The Ray of Hope Accelerator supports the growth of nature-inspired startups to scale systemic solutions to the world’s most pressing environmental challenges
How Life Creates a Land: Wind, Fire, and Fynbos
Where ancient mountains meet two oceans, a tapestry of unique life flourishes, shaped by fire, wind, and one of the greatest concentrations of biodiversity on Earth.
The Nature of Life in Its Smallest Forms
Ant, plant, humpback whale, or human––we each begin life as a single cell. And some of us stay that way. Get to know our single-celled relatives like never before.
How Does Nature Build a Home?
Traditional and Indigenous building methods in Colombia reveal how construction is an intimate engagement with other species, the work they do, and the very core of our planet.
Navigating Deeper Into Nature
Before beginning their current voyage around the entire Pacific Ocean, the Polynesian voyaging canoes, Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia, sailed in 2022 to Hawaiʻi’s ancestral homeland of Tahiti. Navigator Lehua Kamalu shared these thoughts as the team made final preparations for the journey.
Creatividad Silvestre | Wild Creativity
Explore a bilingual (Spanish/English) selection of strategies to support innovation and learning.
Explore una selección bilingüe (español/inglés) de estrategias para apoyar la innovación y el aprendizaje.
How Does Nature Encourage Resilience?
Some of the gravest threats we face are the ones that just keep coming back. See strategies nature has developed to survive and even thrive through relentless adversity.
How Does Nature Prevent Structural Failure?
Whether inside or outside their bodies, or completely separate from them, living things of all kinds create structures that must be reliable and make efficient use of resources.
Learning From “The Rise and Reign of the Mammals”
Bestselling science author Steve Brusatte paints a new, functionally-focused picture of how mammals came to be.