ECC Sustainable Inventors Club & Biomimicry will become a 4H details TBAS

Open forums, encourage everyone to participate and share their views. Forums extend an opportunity for youth to have a voice. Forums increase personal learning and help participants come away with new ideas and insights. Forums help build solidarity. By attending these events young people become more connected. When people come together to discuss issues of common concern, ideas get exchanged that become catalyst to action and new collaborations.
December’s Speaker is a Biomimicry speaker, architect and a friend of mine! He’s out of state until December. I I’ll announce that date at our Nov Inventors Meetup!
Why does our :Sustainable Inventors Club” have an emphasis on Biomimicry?
“Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. It’s the process of looking at a leaf and trying to figure out how to make a better solar cell.
Biomimicry has been going on for a long time. Think about the Wright brothers looking at turkey vultures to learn about drag and lift in flight.
Now biomimicry is becoming one of the ways that engineers, product designers, and architects do their work. It’s mainly because people are looking for more sustainable ways to do things--to sip energy instead of guzzle it, to save materials, to do things in less toxic ways.
Organisms know how to do these things. After 3.8 billion years, life has learned what works and what’s appropriate on the planet. And that’s what the people trying to redesign our world are looking for--so we can live here in a way that enhances this place.” Source
How can people get involved in biomimicry? See Link: http://www.fastcompany.com/biomimicry/janine-benyus-biomimicry-is-innovation-inspired-by-nature
Important Links to watch!
http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_biomimicry_in_action.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_designs.html
http://instantwatcher.com/hulu/shows/273
Please Read
Imagine designing a shovel, football, shoe, window, car, or any everyday object enhanced by Biomimicry - look around! Check out: Tools for Creative Thinking and Decision Making - http://www.virtualsalt.com/crebook1.htm or Get Netflix and watch (Future By Design) or (Objectified) and get creating on paper please and bring your nature inspired design along! Examine the evolution of everyday products and green storming ways to redesign them more sustainably.
Next month - wind turbines, with a Biomimicry whale of a twist! US scientists discovered that the tubercles -- the scalloped edges on humpback fins -- result in 32 percent less drag and an 8 percent rise in lift when compared to a smooth fin. Humpback whale flipper.
A Resource: AskNature is the world's first digital library of Nature's solutions, organized by function, that can serve as an educational and cross-pollinating tool as well as a collaboration forum among biologists, engineers, designers and other innovators. http://www.asknature.org/media/image/192


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