Design Like Nature: Biomimicry for a Healthy Planet (Orca Footprints, 20)

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 Natureyoung 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.

• | Author: Megan Clendenan
• | Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• | Publication Date: March 16, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 48 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1459824644
• | ISBN-13: 9781459824645