From harnessing solar energy to mastering self-assembly and temperature regulation, nature beats human ingenuity and engineering hands down. Nature is amazing, beautiful, terrifying, nourishing, essential — and smart.
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| Nature is amazing, beautiful, terrifying, nourishing, essential — and smart. |
Harare’s Eastgate office complex climate control design is based on a termite mound. The nose of the Shinkansen Bullet Train is modelled on the beak of a kingfisher. Prairie-inspired agricultural systems can match yields from conventional farming while improving water and soil.
Beyond inspiring innovative biomimicry and enterprise, nature sustains us. We are part of it. We rely on it for the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. It not only underpins our well-being and survival but also business and the global economy.
Read the World Wildlife Foundation story from Medium - “Reversing nature loss is everyone’s business.”
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