Janine Benyus: 12 sustainable design ideas from nature

http://www.ted.com In this inspiring talk about recent developments in biomimicry, Janine Benyus provides heartening examples of ways in which nature is already influencing the products and systems we build.

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[sw33t65]

Who is watching this to complete the assignment?!?!

[iruletheworld4ever]

@sw33t65 Plant physiology at UTSC? lol

[hunterdougvid]

anyone doing mic's module at northumbria stumble across this yet?



[Mslekenam]

Engineers need to love challenges.. wow.

[HenrydeBeli]

@sw33t65 Lol every time I come back to this video I thumbs up your comment, because I'm always here to complete my assignment lmao!! Although I find this subject fascinating.

[2grdesigngraphic]

Hola, un video excelente, enhorabuena.

[waitat94]

BRAVO #^_^ Learning from the NATURE WORLD!!!!!!!!!

[wrodpressthemes]

Excellent

[ozredneck22]

There is no known law of nature, no known process and no known sequence of natural events which can cause specified information to originate by itself in matter. Therefore the origin of information must be non-natural and non-material. The concept of information is devastating to materialistic philosophy, always has been.