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Repackaged with a new afterword, this "valuable and entertaining" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems. Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes readers into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; harness energy by examining how a leaf converts sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; and many more examples. Composed of stories of vision and invention, personalities and pipe dreams, Biomimicry is must reading for anyone interested in the shape of our future. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Since then we have lost 20 critical years preparing for the inevitability of climate change.
Much of the science described here has no doubt been overtaken by recent developments. CRISPR for sure has altered the landscape in bioengineering.
Still, the imperatives for design in our brave new world remain the same:
Does it run on sunlight?
Does it reward cooperation?
Does it bank on diversity?
What could be more elementary?
Kate Raworth in her more recent book “Donut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist” makes the salient point that our economies and innovation are pointing us in the wrong direction.
We are likely competing ourselves to extinction.
As I am now reading Elizabeth Kolbert’s book, “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future,” I am learning that even biomimicry can lead to bigtime mistakes.
The introduction of some species of Asian carp to help clean dirty ponds in N. America has turned into an environmental nightmare.
Just one example of which, unfortunately, there are plenty more (Gulp!). ( )