Design Like Nature

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 Nature young 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.



Part of the nonfiction Orca Footprints series for middle readers, in this book young readers discover innovations and inventions inspired by nature.



"Fascinating.”



"An essential STEM resource. Highly Recommended.”



Get inspired by nature! The next big idea could be right outside your front door.



Key Selling Points

• Offers positive nature-inspired solutions to current environmental problems, like climate change and pollution.
• Showcases STEAM-themed inventions from designers, engineers and scientists around the world, including inspiring kid-designs.
• Timely, given current news coverage of kid activists such as Greta Thunberg and Autumn Peltier.
• Biomimicry as a practice has only been around since the 1990s. There is now an annual Biomimicry Youth Design Challenge hosted by the Biomimicry Institute, where young people from all over come to design bio-inspired ideas as solutions to the climate crisis.