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What Can Spring From a Good Idea Sam Stier Biomimicry is a notion emerging into the world of conservation as well as the fields of engineering, manufacturing, product design, education and more. This approach, of studying and then emulating nature’s best ideas to solve human problems, including challenges to well-being and sustainability, first appeared in 1997 with the publication of Janine Benyus’s book, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Now, in this Year of Biodiversity, the core idea’s development into a practical method is particularly worth contemplating. Biomimicry comes from the word bios (meaning life) and mimicry (meaning to emulate). Ms. Benyus explains it this way: “Nature, imaginative by necessity, has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with. Animals, plants, and microbes are the consummate engineers. They have found what works, what is appropriate, and most important, what lasts on Earth.” After billions of years of R&D here on Earth, what surrounds us are the keys to our survival.
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