Biomimicry Institute

the biomimicry institute is a non-profit organization that equips people with a process to create nature-inspired solutions for a healthy planet. we like to say that biomimicry brings a biologist to the design table. our goal is for biomimicry to become a natural part of the design process. we accomplish this by tackling one global sustainability problem at a time with our design challenge platform, mobilizing thousands of practitioners through our global biomimicry network, then providing them with asknature as a tool to begin the solution process. -- history the biomimicry institute was founded in 2006 by janine benyus and bryony schwan to share nature’s design lessons with the people who design and make our world. we began by working directly with educators from k-12, university, and non-formal (museums, zoos, aquariums) environments to naturalize biomimicry in the educational system, and ensure the next generation of changemakers had the tools to integrate biomimicry in their caree