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Author : Walt Brody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Architecture and biology
ISBN : 1728418410
"Animals build unique and beautiful homes. So do humans. But sometimes human-made buildings harm the environment. Learn how architects use biomimicry to design eco-friendly buildings"--
Author : Walt Brody
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728434773
Animals build unique and beautiful homes. So do humans. But sometimes human-made buildings harm the environment. Learn how architects mimic nature to design eco-friendly buildings.
Author : Nel Yomtov
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781624317675
Learn about how nature has inspired technological innovations with this book on the similarities between termite dens and a new office building design. Integrating both historical and scientific perspectives, this book explains how termite dens inspired a new office building design. Readers will make connections and examine the relationship between the two concepts. Sidebars, photographs, a glossary, and a concluding chapter on important people in the field add detail and depth to this informational text on biomimicry.
Author : Lisa Margonelli
Publisher : Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780374712389
The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleum’s Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates the environmental and economic impact termites inflict on human societies in this fascinating examination of one of nature’s most misunderstood insects. Are we more like termites than we ever imagined? In Underbug, the award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli introduces us to the enigmatic creatures that collectively outweigh human beings ten to one and consume $40 billion worth of valuable stuff annually—and yet, in Margonelli’s telling, seem weirdly familiar. Over the course of a decade-long obsession with the little bugs, Margonelli pokes around termite mounds and high-tech research facilities, closely watching biologists, roboticists, and geneticists. Her globe-trotting journey veers into uncharted territory, from evolutionary theory to Edwardian science literature to the military industrial complex. What begins as a natural history of the termite becomes a personal exploration of the unnatural future we’re building, with darker observations on power, technology, historical trauma, and the limits of human cognition. Whether in Namibia or Cambridge, Arizona or Australia, Margonelli turns up astounding facts and raises provocative questions. Is a termite an individual or a unit of a superorganism? Can we harness the termite’s properties to change the world? If we build termite-like swarming robots, will they inevitably destroy us? Is it possible to think without having a mind? Underbug burrows into these questions and many others—unearthing disquieting answers about the world’s most underrated insect and what it means to be human.
Author : Fernando Pacheco Torgal,J. A. Labrincha,M. V. Diamanti,C.-P. Yu,H. K. Lee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319092874
Putting forward an innovative approach to solving current technological problems faced by human society, this book encompasses a holistic way of perceiving the potential of natural systems. Nature has developed several materials and processes which both maintain an optimal performance and are also totally biodegradable, properties which can be used in civil engineering. Delivering the latest research findings to building industry professionals and other practitioners, as well as containing information useful to the public, ‘Biotechnologies and Biomimetics for Civil Engineering’ serves as an important tool to tackle the challenges of a more sustainable construction industry and the future of buildings.
Author : Sandra Markle
Publisher : Millbrook Press TM
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9798765602256
Where do inventors find inspiration? Sometimes they look to animals—which is known as bioinspiration! Author Sandra Markle presents twelve animal adaptations and the amazing technological advancements they've inspired. Readers get a fun peek at the creative process that led to the creation of inventions that help people stay safe, live more comfortably, and go places and do things that weren't previously possible. From dolphins and bats inspiring sonar and lidar to sharks and pangolins inspiring different types of armor, explore the marvelous world of nature-based inventions.
Author : Maibritt Pedersen Zari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351627399
It is clear that the climate is changing and ecosystems are becoming severely degraded. Humans must mitigate the causes of, and adapt to, climate change and the loss of biodiversity, as the impacts of these changes become more apparent and demand urgent responses. These pressures, combined with rapid global urbanisation and population growth mean that new ways of designing, retrofitting and living in cities are critically needed. Incorporating an understanding of how the living world works and what ecosystems do into architectural and urban design is a step towards the creation and evolution of cities that are radically more sustainable and potentially regenerative. Can cities produce their own food, energy, and water? Can they be designed to regulate climate, provide habitat, cycle nutrients, and purify water, air and soil? This book examines and defines the field of biomimicry for sustainable built environment design and goes on to translate ecological knowledge into practical methodologies for architectural and urban design that can proactively respond to climate change and biodiversity loss. These methods are tested and exemplified through a series of case studies of existing cities in a variety of climates. Regenerative Urban Design and Ecosystem Biomimicry will be of great interest to students, professionals and researchers of architecture, urban design, ecology, and environmental studies, as well as those interested in the interdisciplinary study of sustainability, ecology and urbanism.
Author : Amina Khan
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781466865631
Amina Khan believes that nature does it best. In Adapt, she presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans attempt to solve with decades worth of the latest and greatest technologies, time, and money. Humans are animals too, and animals are incredibly good at doing more with less. If a fly’s eye can see without hundreds of fancy lenses, and termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning, it stands to reason that nature can teach us a thing or two about sustainable technology and innovation. In Khan’s accessible voice, these complex concepts are made simple. There is so much we humans can learn from nature’s billions of years of productive and efficient evolutionary experience. This field is growing rapidly and everyone from architects to biologists to nano-technicians to engineers are paying attention. Results from the simplest tasks, creating Velcro to mimic the sticking power of a burr, to the more complex like maximizing wind power by arranging farms to imitate schools of fish can make a difference and inspire future technological breakthroughs. Adapt shares the weird and wonderful ways that nature has been working smarter and not harder, and how we can too to make billion dollar cross-industrial advances in the very near future.
Author : Stephen Baxter
Publisher : Gollancz
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473217201
Half a million years in the future, on a dead, war-ravaged world at the centre of the Galaxy, there is a mile-high statue of Michael Poole. Poole, born on Earth in the fourth millennium, was one of mankind's most influential heroes. He was not a warrior, not an emperor. He was an engineer, a builder of wormhole transit systems. But Poole's work would ultimately lead to a vast and destructive conflict, a million-year war between humanity and the enigmatic, powerful aliens known as the Xeelee. The Xeelee won, but at a huge cost. And, defeated in a greater war, the Xeelee eventually fled the universe. Most of them. A handful were left behind, equipped with time travel capabilities, their task to tidy up: to reorder history more to the Xeelee's liking. That million-year war with humankind was one blemish. It had to be erased. And in order to do that, a lone Xeelee was sent back in time to remove Michael Poole from history . . .
Author : David Edward Bignell,Yves Roisin,Nathan Lo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048139774
Biology of Termites, a Modern Synthesis brings together the major advances in termite biology, phylogenetics, social evolution and biogeography. In this new volume, David Bignell, Yves Roisin and Nathan Lo have brought together leading experts on termite taxonomy, behaviour, genetics, caste differentiation, physiology, microbiology, mound architecture, biogeography and control. Very strong evolutionary and developmental themes run through the individual chapters, fed by new data streams from molecular sequencing, and for the first time it is possible to compare the social organisation of termites with that of the social Hymenoptera, focusing on caste determination, population genetics, cooperative behaviour, nest hygiene and symbioses with microorganisms. New chapters have been added on termite pheromones, termites as pests of agriculture and on destructive invasive species.
Author : Dr. G. Yogapriya, R. Shalini Kumari, Dr. Sharmila Jagadisan
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798892772013
Unveiling Sustainable Architecture Design and planning takes readers on a transforming journey to the forefront of green building.Each chapter reveals a fresh dimension of sustainable architecture,from Ken Yang visionary bio-climatic structures that transform urban living to the vertical wonders of green walls. Explore India & unique tapestry of sustainable architecture, Agritecture agrarian integration, and the ecological impact of green roofs. Following chapters bring biomimicry, new materials, and energy-efficient landscapes to life, providing architects with a road map for designingin harmony with nature. The voyage concludes in a literature study on the growth of global and Indian green building grading systems as the narrative expands to sustainable cities, green materials, and urban transportation.This is the handbook that encourages architects, urban planners, and enthusiasts to reinvent our urban landscapes for a future in which sustainability and innovation coexist effortlessly.
Author : Walt Brody
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728434742
Medicine is always improving. One way doctors find new treatments is by observing nature. By studying animals like spiders and sharks, doctors can help their patients heal faster and more efficiently with biomimicry. This title explores how biomimicry is used in surgeries, in healing wounds, and more.
Author : Walt Brody
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728434803
Animals have mastered motion. So why shouldn't engineers take inspiration from them when perfecting planes, trains, ships, cars, and more? Find out how biomimicry has influenced cutting-edge vehicle innovation.
Author : Walt Brody
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728434834
People use machinery in their lives every day. But how do we make machinery more efficient? We turn to nature! Biomimicry has led to many innovative robots and machines, and readers can explore them here.
Author : Dr. Artika R. Tyner
Publisher : LernerClassroom
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781728474182
This essential guide to building and using an inclusive STEM classroom library combines theory and lesson plans for educators of students in grades 2–3. Discover how to audit classroom collections to support exploration and discovery. Learn how to build STEM awareness and interest through reading, literacy activities, virtual resources, and more. Give your students the opportunity to dream about how they can create, imagine, and build a better world.
