Life creates conditions conducive to life.

Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.

Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.

Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.

Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.

There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.

Listening to nature's operating instructions.