Janine Benyus is a writer and innovation expert when it comes to looking at design and the natural sciences. Her talk (Jul.2009) is based on a book she wrote Innovation Inspired by Nature. Biomimicry: Inside the revolutionary new science that is rediscovering life’s best ideas — and changing the world.

She gives quite a good number of examples of biomimicry currently being used to solve problems and save energy and material (i.e. growing food, gathering energy, finding cures, etc.). Her advice is to look at nature for new ways of approaching design problems and finding sustainable solutions.