Author: Janine Benyus

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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.

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.

- Janine Benyus

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.

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.

- Janine Benyus

Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.

Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.

- Janine Benyus

Life doesn't use detergent to clean itself.

Life doesn't use detergent to clean itself.

- Janine Benyus

Life creates conditions conducive to life.

Life creates conditions conducive to life.

- Janine Benyus

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.

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.

- Janine Benyus

Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get.

Organisms sip energy, because they have to work or barter for every single bit that they get.

- Janine Benyus

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or mortgaging the future.

- Janine Benyus

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