Biomimicry Challenge 2, Syracuse NY

There's still time to register! Professional tickets start at $150 for the whole weekend - please share! See you March 22 ...

FACT OF THE DAY:
Learning from Termites How to Create Sustainable Buildings

Architect Mick Pearce helped save his clients $3.5 million dollars in air conditioning costs by constructing his buildings in a more sustainable design.

*Find out how Pearce saved so much money by reading this article !
www.biomimicryinstitute.org/case-studies/case-studies/architecture.html

Architecture

Biomimicry looks into simple processes that nature preforms naturaly around us in order to create more complex processes that can be conducted for human life!

another interesting article from Science Daily
Spider Silk Conducts Heat as Well as Metals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120305132613.htm

Spider silk conducts heat as well as metals Researchers have discovered that spider silk is surprisingly good at transferring heat. Spider silk, in fact, conducts heat as well or better than most metals.

These processes being produced at Washington University in St. Louis are mimicking the processes of photosynthesis in trees and plants.

From an article on Science Daily titled :
Making a Light-Harvesting Antenna from Scratch: Biomimetic Antenna for Gathering Sunlight May One Day Transform Solar-Powered Devices

"At Washington University in St. Louis's Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC) scientists are exploring native biological photosystems, building hybrids that combine natural and synthetic parts, and building fully synthetic analogs of natural systems."

GET EXCITED this FRIDAY the 23rd !!!!
DAY 1 OF BIOMIMICRY CHALLENGE

FACT OF THE DAY:
Agriculture
Learning from Prairies How to Grow Food Sustainably!

By using deep rooted plants (perennials) in stable natural ecosystems both PRODUCTION and NATURAL RESOURCES can increase!

A large part of Biomimicry is CONSERVATION. Conservation is the careful utilization of a natural resource in order to prevent depletion. In the case of biomimicry, conservation is a key concept, if you want to conserve and save the world as it is, you must be able to learn an alternative (biomimicry).

Biomimicry is used to benefit many different aspects of life, one of them being HEALTH.

LEARNING FROM CHIMPANZEES HOW TO HEAL OURSELVES
http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/case-studies/case-studies/medicine.html

Medicine

Marcos Cruz!

Check out his website in SPANISH!

http://www.revistasucasa.com/contenido/articles/987/2/Especiales-Sucasa-63/Paacuteginas2.html

Especiales Sucasa 63 Arquitectos aislados de su entorno, la identidad más allá del folclor y el lodo como detonante de una visión de mundo... Sucasa 63

Joshua Sin

found on his website
http://www.joshsin.com/process/