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Nature is more than the sum of its parts. Explore the connections between individual biological strategies, innovations, or educational resources as leading thinkers, scientists, artists, and others reflect on unifying themes in biomimicry.
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How Does Nature
Harness the Creative Destruction of Fire?
When we understand life’s adaptations to the changes brought by fire, we learn to value disruption as a path to resilience.
The Art and Ingenuity of the Feather
Far more than just flight aids or decoration, feathers take a simple form and iterate upon it to serve countless functions and benefits for birds.
Ray of Hope Accelerator Gallery
The Ray of Hope Accelerator supports nature-inspired solutions addressing the world's biggest environmental and social challenges.
How Does Nature Build a Home?
Traditional and Indigenous building methods in Colombia reveal how construction is an intimate engagement with other species, the work they do, and the very core of our planet.
How Life Built Earth As We Know It
Life doesn't just inhabit the Earth––it shapes it, physically, on every scale. What can we learn from its methods?
How Does Nature Teach and Learn?
Education isn't just about memorization, but practicing into mastery. Looking to other species, we see that long-term success is all about incorporating new knowledge into your very being.
Navigating Deeper Into Nature
Before beginning their current voyage around the entire Pacific Ocean, the Polynesian voyaging canoes, Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia, sailed in 2022 to Hawaiʻi’s ancestral homeland of Tahiti. Navigator Lehua Kamalu shared these thoughts as the team made final preparations for the journey.
Creatividad Silvestre | Wild Creativity
Explore a bilingual (Spanish/English) selection of strategies to support innovation and learning.
Explore una selección bilingüe (español/inglés) de estrategias para apoyar la innovación y el aprendizaje.
How Does Nature Encourage Resilience?
Some of the gravest threats we face are the ones that just keep coming back. See strategies nature has developed to survive and even thrive through relentless adversity.
How Does Nature Prevent Structural Failure?
Whether inside or outside their bodies, or completely separate from them, living things of all kinds create structures that must be reliable and make efficient use of resources.
Learning From “The Rise and Reign of the Mammals”
Bestselling science author Steve Brusatte paints a new, functionally-focused picture of how mammals came to be.