The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.

Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.

The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.

Listening to nature's operating instructions.

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.

When the forest and the city are functionally indistinguishable, then we know we have reached sustainability.

There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.