3 Biomimicry Principles for Engagement
I’m always exploring insights from biomimicry for social innovation. My last post on biomimicry connected its principles to those of the Vipassana meditation technique. As I […]
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The Biomimicry of Vipassana
Recently I participated in a ten-day Vipassana Meditation Training in the California desert. It had been on my bucket list for over a decade, so I […]
Continue reading »The Biomimetic Life: A Self-Analysis
For a while I’ve been meaning to analyze my life and work based on Life’s Principles from biomimicry, to see how I’m doing in my […]
Continue reading »Bioneers 2016: Highlights and Questions
Bioneers is, by definition, a recurring utopia. Sometimes it’s hard to believe it’s a conference! Everyone is happy: beaming, grateful, present, and kind. For example, […]
Continue reading »Future Cities to be Biomimetic
Cambridge University bioengineer Michelle Oyen is studying how to make future cities biomimetic. Her work is focused on the mechanical properties of biological materials. One […]
Continue reading »Nature’s Gears: A First
Mechanical gears, we typically think, have their roots in engineering. Well, it turns out that nature has gears too: they have been discovered in the […]
Continue reading »McKinsey: Four Key Leadership Behaviors
At Alchemus Prime, we take a behavioral approach to, well, everything. So, encountering recent research from McKinsey that talks about four critical leadership behaviors was music […]
Continue reading »Water: Bruce Lee’s Biomimicry
On the Alchemus Prime website, we have a note about how we serve clients: We help our clients become more like water: accepting, adapting to, and flowing […]
Continue reading »Celebrating Nature’s Patterns
I recently read an interview that the Smithsonian did with author and scientist Philip Ball about his new book, Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World […]
Continue reading »Harvesting Water through Biomimicry
Scientists are working hard to address the interrelated challenges of climate change and water scarcity – climate change worsens water scarcity, and in turn water shortages […]
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