Biomimicry: designing according to nature’s principles
Biomimicry is the field of design that is informed and inspired by the innovative and elegantly simple ways in which life functions. Velcro, for instance, is based on the hooks and loops found on the burrs of the burdock plant.
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Plastic Free July: reducing our plastic waste
Unfortunately the longevity of plastics, one of the reasons it has become so widely used, is also the reason why it has become such an environmental catastrophe...
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The good life
Live simply so that others may simply live – Ghandi
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Zero Waste Living
Nothing in the natural world is wasted. Instead the output from one system goes on to feed another system...
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Food: the stuff of life and one of its greatest pleasures
The foods we eat say a lot about a culture. These days Westerners are quite disconnected from the process of acquiring food, be it growing, hunting or gathering, and even for some people preparing a meal...
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Do you have a backyard veggie patch? How safe is your soil?
Earlier this year we planted a demonstration and teaching garden out the front of The Joinery, home of…
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