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Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get.

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Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

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Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.

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The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

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Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.

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Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.

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Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.

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There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.

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Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.

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Glue actually contaminates recyclables. We throw things in a landfill just because they're glued together.

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Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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