I would like to invite you to participate in our 2nd Biomimicry San Diego gathering. This is an opportunity for you to come interact with other open-minded people and have a chance to learn more about biomimicry. The event will take place on Saturday May 4th from 9:30am to noon.

The meeting will be at World Resources SIM Center in downtown San Diego. The address is: 1088 Third Ave., San Diego, CA 92101.

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For our second gathering, I plan to give an introductory presentation on biomimicry. Biomimicry and biomimetics come from the Greek words bios, meaning life, and mimesis, also meaning to imitate. Scientist and author Janine Benyus popularized the term biomimicry in her 1997 book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (http://www.amazon.com/Biomimicry-Innovation-Inspired-Janine-Benyus/dp/0060533226). Benyus believes that most of the problems that have ever existed have already been solved by nature. Benyus suggests shifting one's perspective from learning about nature to learning from nature as a way to solve human problems.

What you will learn in this introductory presentation: 
- Introduction to the field of biomimicry
- Understand biomimicry Life Principles
- Deeper exploration of case studies and inspiring organisms

Finally, I would like to share an interesting article on biomimicry: 
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/8/morphing-material