Design Like Nature: Biomimicry for a Healthy Planet
About this ebook
Did you know that lamps can be powered by glowing bacteria instead of electricity? That gloves designed like gecko feet let people climb straight up glass walls? Or that kids are finding ways to make compostable plastic out of banana peels? Biomimicry, the scientific term for when we learn from and copy nature, is a revolutionary way to look to nature for answers to environmental problems such as climate change.
In Design Like Nature young readers discover innovations and inventions inspired by the environment. Nature runs the entire planet with no waste and no pollution. Can humans learn to do this too? It's time to step outside and start designing like nature.
The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
About the author
Megan Clenndenan is a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of Offbeat, a novel for young readers in the Orca Limelights series. Megan lives in North Vancouver, British Columbia, where she is surrounded by nature.
Kim Ryall Woolcock has always loved books and biology. She has an honors degree in literature from UBC and a master's in biology from Duke University. A full-time science writer and editor, Kim lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, with her family. This is her first book.
