American - Writer | 1958 -
Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earth's most precious gift.
Janine Benyus
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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.
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Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.
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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.
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Per capita, I would say that Australia has more biomimetic projects going than many other countries I've been to.
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Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.
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Life doesn't use detergent to clean itself.
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For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.
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Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents combined - about 100,000.
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Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
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