With many using this time at home to learn new skills, online courses are rising in popularity and one South African organisation has launched a timely programme to embark on, whilst considering what ...

Source: Greystone Books, with permission. Some years ago I learned about the fascinating field called biomimicry, basically "a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies found in nature to ...

They’ve all been copied by humans. And that was the basis of Jennifer Robinson’s lesson on Wednesday. “Biomimicry is when humans copy nature to solve a problem,” she told dozens of students, mainly in ...

Houses separate us from nature. At least, that’s the idea we’ve had until now. Architecture that uses biomimicry, permaculture and related practices to keep nature in our building spaces offers a ...

From snowflakes to leaves, nature is full of incredible shapes and intricate designs. Nature itself is a wonder, a world full of plants and animals that adapt themselves to better suit the natural ...

Biomimicry, which means the imitation of the living, seeks to learn from natural selection and apply those principles to human engineering, putting nature’s lessons into practice using technology. A ...