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• Biomimicry, Van Jones, TED Talks, and a Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. ~ All in One

  
  Green Team Gazette — Authority: 99
  I was reminded this weekend of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch TEDx Event of November 2010 sponsored by Plastic Pollution Coalition.  I watched a bulk of it back then, and wrote about it here in GTG.In honor of the long weekend celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.s birthday celebration this Monday, I think this ...
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• A Model for a New Emergent Approach to Building in Haiti

  
  Life at HOK — Authority: 101
  By Thomas Knittel, AIA, LEED ® AP The New Year always causes one to reflect on the recent past, but especially so today, the two-year anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti . I have been fortunate to work with a dedicated group of volunteers at HOK to design a children’s center and orphanage in ...
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• HOK & the USGBC’s New Sustainable Orphanage and Children’s Center In Haiti Uses Biomimicry

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 695
  HOK has been announced as the U.S. Green Building Council ’s official design partner for Project Haiti, a building designed to LEED Platinum principles that will replace a Port-au-Prince orphanage and children’s center devastated by the 2010 earthquake. The new structure will provide a safe, healthy home for the ...
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• Sunflowers Inspire Better Solar Power Tech

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 722
  By Mark Brown, Wired UK We’ve all seen concentrated solar power (CSP) plants — those rows and rows of shiny mirror heliostats all crowded around a 100-metre-high pillar, like worshippers peering up at a towering god. The orchestra of mirrors track the sun throughout the day, bouncing rays up at the ...
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• Biomimicry

  
  Shpoonkle Blog — Authority: 111
  Sometimes called Biometrics, Biomimicry is a way to copy nature’s patterns, systems and processes in order to design better earth sustainable ways to solve human problems.An example of this is the artificial leaf. Scientists have developed a design for an artificial leaf that can produce hydrogen from sunlight and ...
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• Exposing your ideas

  
  Start Up Blog — Authority: 106
  Ideas are like organic matter. If we keep them out of view, out of the light, away from external influence, then all we are really doing is reducing their potential. We are taking away the essential nutrition that could make them thrive grow, and bare fruit.
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• Biomimicry Mimicked

  
  Eartheasy Blog — Authority: 92
  The timid jawfish has developed a clever strategy to survive – mimicking a mimic. Biomimicry Mimicked is a post from: The Eartheasy Blog . © 2011 Eartheasy.comThis article may not be republished without permission.
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• #2 of 2011 for ID community: The Design of the Butterfly Continues to Inspire and Amaze.

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 523
  Every year, Access Research Network publishes a list of the 10 most significant science news stories for the year, for the intelligent design community – in consultation with theorists and writers. For 2011, here’s #2: Inventors made an artificial butterfly modeled on the tiger swallowtail. First they made the ...
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• Tiny Biofuel Cell Turns Insects into OH MY GOD RUN FOR YOUR LIVES

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 639
  While biofuel stories often fill me with gimlet-eyed suspicion, I’ve now and then said to myself: if only we could mount lasers on insects and then somehow power those lasers with electricity generated from their own blood, THAT would be a biofuel application I can get behind. Well, consider me behind it because ...
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• Spider Robots In Outer Space: Biomimicry, B Movie or Both?

  
  Engineering on the Edge — Authority: 107
  As this is my third post about insect-like robots, regular readers may start thinking I’m a bit obsessed. I’m not (at least I don’t think I am); I’m just trying to drive home the point that great designs can be lifted from nature without too much tinkering. I’ve previously posted about cockroach-like rescue ...
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