Nature's 100 Best sustainability technologies and strategies highlighted by ZERI, Biomimicry Guild, UN Envt. Programme and IUCN

[Gary Liss <gary@garyliss.com>]

Apologies for Cross-Postings

How to Green the Global Economy: Nature?s 100 Best Initiative published in May 2008 preliminary findings on 2,100 of the most extraordinary commercially promising technologies and strategies inspired by nature, including: 

• A super-small pacemaker based on the humpback whale's heart
• Pigment-free color coatings based on light-splitting of a peacock's feather
• Vaccines that survive without refrigeration
• Friction-free surfaces for electrical devices
• New antibacterial substances without increasing bacterial resistance
• Toxic-free fire retardants
• Water harvesting system to recycle steam from cooling towers and water from buildings
• Biodegradable, water-tight packaging

The initiative is the brainchild of the Biomimicry Guild and ZERI in partnership with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP:

http://www.unep.org/) and IUCN-the
World Conservation Union.


Learn more:



http://www.zeri.org/news%20-%20nature%20best%20prelim%20findings.htm
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Gary Liss       
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