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- Biomimicry – A Problem Solving Tool
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Biomimicry Workshop 2012
Team Adaptors
Sarah Dawn Haynes Possibility CartographerUniversity of Colorado
Kirk Mills SARA/Sustainability Program, Division of Environmental Health & Sustainability CO Dept. of Public Health & Environment
Laura Farris Climate Change CoordinatorUS EPA Region 8
Lynne Sullivan Interpretive Naturalist, City of Boulder’s Open Space and Mountain Parks Dept.
Margot Smit Mediator and Facilitator
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This Presentation will …
• Discuss how nature can be our mentor
• Review the evolutionary history of life on Earth
• Explain the methodology of Biomimicry
• Give examples of how nature solves problems
• Show how people have applied nature’s strategies
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February 25th
recognizable life
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March 28th
photosynthesis
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September 17th
sexual reproduction
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November 15th
colonization of the land
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November 20th
fish fill the seas
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November 22nd
plants evolve on land
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November 24th
insects evolve
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December 2nd
amphibians evolve
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December 6th
reptiles evolve
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December 13th
mammals evolve
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December 18th
birds evolve
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December 20thflowers evolve
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December 25th
dinosaurs go extinct
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December 31st, 11:30 AMthe hominids evolve
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December 31st, 11:36 PMhumans evolve
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Biomimicry Process• Assemble a multi-disciplinary team
– Engineer, Biologist, Designer, Architect, Planner
• Identify the problem and its context• Research how nature solves that
problem• Define the design concepts behind
nature’s solutions • Brainstorm multiple human applications
reflecting nature’s solutions• Test those applications, ensuring that
they adhere to all of Life’s Principles
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Life’s Principles• Be resource (material & energy)
efficient
• Adapt to changing conditions
• Be locally attuned and responsive
• Use life friendly chemistry
• Integrate growth and development
• Evolve to survive
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Life’s Principles
Replicate Strategies That Work
http://biomimicry.net/about/biomimicry/lifes-principles/
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• Be locally attuned and responsive– use readily available materials and
energy– cultivate cooperative relationships– leverage cyclic processes– use feedback loops
• Adapt to changing conditions– maintain integrity through self-
renewal– embody resilience through variation,
redundancy, and decentralization– incorporate diversity
Examples of Life’s Principle’s Strategies
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How does natureadapt to change?
How does nature?
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How does nature?
Photo: Shotaku
Photo: Bill May
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Discovering Nature’s Strategies
Go out into nature to observe strategies and relationships
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Direct observation
Gravity shmavity….
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Discovering Nature’s Strategies
AskNature.OrgandScientific Literature
Can anyone figure out how to import the face page from asknature.org to go next to the text to the left?
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How does nature deal with drought?
Photo credit: H.D. Grissino-Mayer
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SPECIES and STRATEGY
LIFE’S PRINCIPLES
HUMAN APPLICATIO
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POLICY ISSUES or
IMPLEMENTATION BARRIERS
Ponderosa Pineand Fungi
Living cooperatively the fungi and the tree access and share water beyond one another's’ reach.
Cultivate cooperative relationships
Be Locally Attuned and Responsive
Evolve to survive
Embody resilience through redundancy and decentralization
Replicate strategies that work
Use available water more efficiently
Water rights: use it or lose it
Municipal development codes
How does nature deal with drought?
Use a variety of means and locations to store water
Photo- H.D. Grissino-Mayer
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How does nature deal with drought?
Before
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How does nature deal with drought?
AfterPhoto – Jason Gerhardt
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How does nature deal with drought?
BeforePhoto – Jason Gerhardt, Real Earth Design, Permaculture Landscapes & Education
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How does nature deal with drought?
Photo – Jason Gerhardt, Real Earth Design, Permaculture Landscapes & Education
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How does nature deal with drought?
After
Photo – Jason Gerhardt, Real Earth Design, Permaculture Landscapes & Education
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Drought strategies help with flooding
System and photo by Technicians for Sustainability, LLC
Roof-fed CisternStreet and home-fed Rain Garden
Cooper Center for Environmental Learning , Tuscon, AZ
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SPECIES and STRATEGY
LIFE’S PRINCIPLES
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POLICY ISSUES or
IMPLEMENTATION BARRIERS
Trench beetle creates a trench to collect water
Be Locally Attuned and Responsive
Evolve to survive
Embody resilience through redundancy and decentralization
Replicate strategies that work
Stormwater Tree Trenches
Pervious pavement and parking lots
Water rights: use it or lose it
Municipal development codes
How does nature deal with water?
Leaves of cactus capture water due to their fan-shaped arrangement and curved shape.
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How does nature deal with extreme precipitation and flooding?
Credit: Wayne Hsieh
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How does nature deal with flooding?
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SPECIES and STRATEGY
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POLICY ISSUES or
IMPLEMENTATION BARRIERS
Entrances to ant nests are protected from flooding by collapsing and blocking the opening
Entrances to the underground burrows of prairie dogs are protected from flooding by circular dikes to divert water.
Be Locally Attuned and Responsive
Build selectively with a small subset of elements
Fit form to function
Use multifunctional design
Use low energy processes
After Hurricane Sandy, New York City building owners are installing seals and flood barriers for key electrical and mechanical equipment
Protect critical infrastructure in floodplains with berms or..
Obsolete flood plain maps
Judging future risks in new climatic conditions
Spending limited funds on hard to predict risks
How does nature deal with flooding?
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SPECIES and STRATEGY
LIFE’S PRINCIPLES
HUMAN APPLICATI
ON
POLICY ISSUES or
IMPLEMENTATION BARRIERS
Peatlands slow down water flow in wet conditions and release it in dry conditions.
They also clean the water of pollutants and silt
Use multi-functional design
Combine modular and nested components
Maintain integrity through self-renewal
Cultivate cooperative relationships
Bio-swales
Green stormwater infrastructure
Rainwater harvesting – cisterns
Rain gardens
Green roofs
Water rights: use it or lose it
Municipal development codes
How does nature deal with flooding?
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How does nature deal with flooding?
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The EPA Region 8 Headquarters’ green roof with study plots and
instrumentation. The solar panels provide beneficial shade during hot
weather. Photo: EPA Region 8.
Compared to a conventional roofthe green roof is:
• has significantly higher storm-water retention
• cooler during hot weather
• warmer during cold weather
EPA Region 8’s Green Roof, Denver, CO
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How does nature deal with flooding?
Philadelphia’s Green Infrastructure Goals
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How does nature deal with flooding?
Bioswales from Lake County, Illinois
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How does nature deal with high temperatures?
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SPECIES and STRATEGY
LIFE’S PRINCIPLES
HUMAN APPLICATION
POLICY ISSUES or
IMPLEMENTATION BARRIERS
Black-tailed Prairie Dogs
Burrow temperature regulated by the earth’s subsurface temperature and ventilated passively by air flow through the tunnel
Be Resource Efficient
Use multifunctional design
Harness freely available energy
Use low energy processes
Fit form to function
Build with accessible materials
Access the earth’s relative coolness and warmth to cool and heat our buildings through eothermal building design
Use passive ventilation for cooling of buildings
Build with straw bales
Current building codes
Not a common practice
Consider life-cycle economics of buildings
How does nature adapt to high temperatures?
Photo Frank Beck
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Geothermal Design
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnSxRYx82Gk
Nature's genius has excellent references for the job of being our mentor.
Image Credit--JEFF JOHNSON Hybrid Medical Animation
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Nature as Mentor
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What problems do you have to solve?
• Wildland fire and drinking water management as related systems
• Water storage in an arid environment• Etc.
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Biomimicry 3.8Contact information
Nicole MillerDirector of Consulting and Client Services
Phone: 406 543-4108 X 234
HTTP://WWW.Biomimicry.net