Our instructors are biologists, designers, business people and engineers with deep experience in practicing and teaching biomimicry. They include Certified Biomimicry Professionals, Biomimicry 3.8 staff and long-time collaborators of Biomimicry 3.8.

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Courses are often supplemented with guest lecturers from the Biomimicry 3.8’s network of allies in the sustainability and innovation spheres, including Duke Stump, David Oakey, Darcy Winslow, Peter Warshall and others.



DAYNA BAUMEISTER: LIFE'S OPERATING MANUAL
Bioneers 2011 [VIDEO | 31m]

Envision what our world would and could look like if we actually started reading and following the directions contained in "Life's Operating Manual." In this video from Bioneers 2011, Dayna Baumeister, co-founder with Janine Benyus of the Biomimicry Guild and Biomimicry Institute (now unified as Biomimicry 3.8), provides an eagle's-eye view of biomimicry breakthroughs using ecological design and nature-inspired technologies that emulate nature's profound design sophistication.