Topic: Janine Benyus

What Would You Ask Nature? Submit to the Biomimicry Institute/Designers Accord Challenge!

Deadline to submit is March 17! We've picked three teams from leading design firms who will be working with biologists. Now all we need is your company's real-world design problem.READ»

• Designers Accord Case Studies
• What Would You Ask Nature? Biomimicry Challenge

Biomimicry, the Zoo, and San Diego Too

Building Businesses Using Nature as a MentorREAD»

Sustainable, Innovative Leadership = Abundance

 Imagine you’re looking at a gauge. The left half of the gauge has black hash marks with numbers that go from “-10″ to “0″ at the top. The background color on this half is red. The right half of the gauge has numbers ...READ»

Asking Nature for Business Solutions

Engineers and designers are always searching for innovative solutions to the problems they face.  Are there more efficient, less polluting ways to make things?  How can cars be stronger, lighter and more fuel efficient, all at the ...READ»

Live From Greenbuild 2008: Enviro Legends Go Web 2.0

EO Wilson, Janine Benyus, and Bill McKibbon get all Web 2.0.READ»

• Live From Greenbuild 2008: 30 Years, Now a Movement
• Live From Greenbuild 2008: Green Collar Jobs-Hype or Reality?

Live From Greenbuild 2008: 30 Years, Now a Movement

30,000 architects, engineers, chemists, and designers gather in Boston for one purpose: how to solve environmental crisis through design. Will the movement survive the recession?READ»

Biomimicry: Nature-Inspired Designs

The inventor of Velcro ripped cockleburs from his dog's fur. Da Vinci and the Wright brothers studied birds in flight. And now a rising number of designers are looking to nature for inspiration. Companies as diverse as Boeing, Ford, General Electric, Herman Miller, HP, IBM, Kraft, Nike, and Patagonia are welcoming biologists to the design lab. Here's a sampling of Mother Nature at work.READ»

• 2008 Masters of Design
• Biomimicry: Design Inspirations from Nature
• The Vision of John Maeda

Fast Company Library

Books previously featured in Fast Company (2001)READ»

Resources: The Revolution Begins

Businesses large and small are finally seeing the green light. It isn't just conscience--or all those nice young people in Guatemalan sweaters--that's doing the trick. It's the sight of all that money.READ»

The Masters of Design

If you're leading a team or mapping out a strategy -- if you're trying to solve a problem -- you're engaging in design. And the creative folks featured in our second annual celebration of design's best and brightest have a lot to teach you.READ»

The Power of Design

Want to innovate? Want to forge lasting connections with customers? Want to outflank competitors? Want to grow? The creative and incisive folks featured in our second annual report on the Masters of Design have a lot to teach you.READ»

Landscape of the Interior

David Oakey and his team use nature as their design guide.READ»