Bee’s Knees!!

It took me a while to orient this blog on "Why not biomimicry!?" by withering the compelling pull from "Why biomimicry?".

As naturalists we tend to over romanticize nature and wilderness, and more than often think that the onus of environmental conservation (encompassing everything from blues, greens and stripes) is on us - naturalists (for the optimists) OR on the Government and Society (for the less optimists).

In the process, we end up educating and advocating a lot about nature, while missing out a lot from nature that beholds all the unasked answers.

On times like these, the ecologist in me wants to shout out that isn't the most obvious custodian of our Earth, the Earth herself?!  All we can do is to humbly surrender to its 3.8 billion years of evolved wisdom and allow her to take the lead. 

So the straightforward objective of this shot is to practice "letting nature lead" by : 

• Exchanging what we observe
• Exploring beyond what we know
• Emulating the genius around

To emulate geniuses, we need we need to "think" like geniuses. 

My five-year old niece is often curious to know what and why and how do I pet bees and lizards in my balcony. The truth is - I don’t. That’s only to make her feel comfortable and less to mention prevent humiliation on them bees and lizards. Imagine someone screaming at the sight of Einstein, Edison OR Galileo!

One morning she found one of the bees dried dead on the balcony floor. Niece came running to me with her no-matter-what-i-am-here-for-you look and obviously expected me to mourn at this irrevocable loss. Watched me anxiously as if the volume of my tears will help her measure my love for my pet bee. And I cried. Outwardly for the bee and inwardly for what i just witnessed - power of perception. 

Pest to pet. And the worldview evolves. 

Genus to Genius. Can the worldview revolutionize? 

Biomimicry promises this revolution. Revolution of our Innovation challenge and opportunities. Innovation that is inspired by nature. Innovation that is good for all. 

How do we get there?  How do we think like geniuses? How can we think in biomimicry? 

Like logic, common sense and reasoning, how do we integrate biomimicry into our cognitive capabilities? As something innate to us, effortless, natural in its truest sense.  Here we come, with yet another attempt. 

Objective is to practice being nature, not just mimicking; to think like a 3.8 BILLION year old genius, do what nature would have done if it were you. Isn't that ridiculous?  We are nature, then why act and do otherwise. Let’s get back to basics.  

Here’s an attempt to make the “9 laws of nature” as the DoReMiFaSoLaTiDo of Biomimicry, and to practice “Thinking in Biomimicry”. These 9 laws may not make much sense in the beginning, exactly like the alphabets of any new language.  I mean - What power “A” possess to be on the top? and why B has to follow A all the time, and then C and D and E and all the way to Zee. None of the 26 has any linear logic, yet has supreme power to make classics and epics and much more.  

Likewise, these 9 laws can make the basis of our pathmaking and breathgiving innovations, lay the foundation to transform the way we look at innovation and creativity that is not only inclusive but also compassionate and sustainable for generations to come. 

Ok. Agreed. No classics. No epics. Only Laws. So what are these 9 laws? These laws are just a summation of nine broad fundamentals upon which relies our absolute existence, our coexistence and our co-coexistence. The web of life. 

This is an endeavor to practice “Thinking in biomimicry” through the “9 Laws of Nature”: 

1. Nature runs on sunlight  
2. Nature uses only the energy it needs
3. Nature fits form to function
4. Nature recycles everything
5. Nature rewards cooperation
6. Nature banks on diversity
7. Nature demands local expertise
8. Nature taps the power of limits
9. Nature curbs excesses from within

What would it take "to be nature" and “think as nature”? Practice.