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🌱▶️ Now available to stream: Janine Benyus’s full #Bioneers2025 keynote, “Becoming a Welcome Species: Biomimicry and the Art of Generous Design.” 🌎 If humans are to come home to this planet, we need to become a welcome species, a gift-giver to the places we inhabit. Janine Benyus, the world-renowned “Godmother of Biomimicry,” and her colleagues at the Biomimicry Institute and Biomimicry 3.8 have been demonstrating what it takes to design human settlements—cities, villages, homes, and businesse

Biomimicry in action

At Bioneers 2016, Janine Benyus celebrated her first sip of Kernza beer, borne from a wide-eyed Midwestern vision at the Land Institute for perennial wheat — a crop with promise to reverse the damages of extractive farming. Benyus demonstrated how this nature-inspired breakthrough in agriculture is part of a greater evolution from from plant-focused "silver bullets" to system-savvy healing. Cooperation — Benyus shared — is the best way to learn from life's genius! 🌎 Today is the 31st of 35 days

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