“Wild Ideas” Now Live!

I have been working on a new project called “Wild Ideas: The Biomimicry of Public Lands and Waters in the U.S.” The inaugural installment in this series—a biomimicry of Saguaro National Park—is now available online, at long last.

“Wild Ideas” profiles the plants and animals of our public lands and waters in six biomes: forest, desert, grassland, tundra and marine and freshwater systems. The project proposes a new role for some of the most iconic places in the United States—how the biota in our nation’s waters and wildlands can serve as a creative commons of ideas for generating innovative designs and sustainable solutions.

The series will explore a wide range of systems that are part of the natural heritage of the U.S., including national parks, forests, grasslands, lakeshores, wildlife refuges and marine preserves.

“Wild Ideas” is a collaboration with the Biomimicry Institute’s AskNature.org, an online database of thousands of strategies from nature that can be used to inspire sustainable innovation in human design challenges.

Stay tuned for more installments to come, including biomimicry-based profiles of the coastal redwood forest and Alaskan tundra.