Janine Benyus
Janine Benyus
Janine M. Benyusis an American natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
resilience use world
Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.
world pitching cooperation
Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world
song nature our-world
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details of our world. Deep inside, we still have a longing to be reconnected with the nature that shaped our imagination, our language, our song and dance, our sense of the divine.
needs answers world
The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.
mother home our-world
The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.
basically offspring species taking
We're basically this very young species, only 200,000 years old. We're one of the newcomers, and we're going through the same process that other species go through, which is, how do I keep myself alive while taking care of the place that's going to keep my offspring alive?
ideas organisms
There are literally as many ideas as there are organisms.
water trying bacteria
Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.
years five-years five
Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.
next revolution habitat
Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.
nature thinking perspective
For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse, that everything we touch turns to soot. But neither perspective is healthy. We have to remember how it feels to have equal standing in the world, to be "between the mountain and the ant . . . part and parcel of creations," as the Iroquois traditionalist Oren Lyons says.
nature real years
The real survivors are the Earth inhabitants that have lived millions of years without consuming their ecological capital, the base from which all abundance flows.
book use elements
Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.
stress bridges tree
Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.