Biomimic Building

Ratings:

43 pages13 minutes

Summary

Nature - inspired building designs, materials, and systems can provide better ways for people to thrive in their environments. Learn how designers and engineers use biomimicry to come up with safer, more sustainable, and energy efficient buildings. This title supports NGSS for Engineering Design.

Read on the Scribd mobile app

Download the free Scribd mobile app to read anytime, anywhere.

iOS Android

Publisher: Carson-Dellosa PublishingReleased: Feb 1, 2019ISBN: 9781731610850Format: book

Book Preview

Biomimic Building - Robin Koontz

You've reached the end of this preview. Sign up to read more!

Start your free 30 days

Page 1 of 1

Biomimic Building

Summary

Read on the Scribd mobile app

What's Great about Missouri?

The Three Billy Goats and Gruff

Learning about Africa

Old McDoggle Had a Zoo

Binoculars

Cinderella Zelda

Lizzie Little, the Sky is Falling!

Biomimicry and Medicine

Think Like an Engineer

TV Remotes

The King's New Clothes

Bio-Inspired Transportation and Communication

Megan Smith

Seeing Seeds: A Journey into the World of Seedheads, Pods, and Fruit

Solid Biomechanics

Structural Biomaterials: Third Edition

Comparative Biomechanics: Life's Physical World - Second Edition

Principles of Animal Locomotion

Why the Wheel Is Round: Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move

SuperLife: The 5 Forces That Will Make You Healthy, Fit, and Eternally Awesome

Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds

The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior

Finis Dunaway, “Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images” (: Oil-soaked birds in Prince William Sound. The “crying Indian” in a 1970s anti-littering ad. A lonely polar bear on an Arctic ice floe. Such environmental images have proliferated over the past half-century,

Dan Widmaier (Bolt Threads) - Design to Disrupt

Episode 306: Introducing Challey Comer!: On the season premiere of The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks introduces her new co-host, Challey Comer! Challey is a sustainability manager for Blue Apron, and has devoted her career to research, development and promotion of the agriculture industry. Tune in

Powerline, Part I: Masters In Our Own Home: A 4-part series about who has power, who wields it, and when you've got none... how do you take it?

Alternative Energy and Global Warming - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 12/12/17

If the Fuel Source Ain't Clean, Your Electric Car Ain't Green: If the Fuel Source Ain't Clean, Your Electric Car Ain't Green

Perrin Selcer, "The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment" (Columbia UP, 2018): Having been born into a world in which people knew about anthropogenic global warming, I grew up in the “global environment.”

The Environment: Ernie Rea and guests discuss Christian attitudes to the environment.

Can a Building Save Energy, Money and Maybe Your Job?

S02 Episode 89 | FARMGIRL FLOWERS + DIRT ON THE FLORAL INDUSTRY: FARMGIRL FLOWERS + DIRT ON THE FLORAL INDUSTRY

Living on Earth: February 18, 2011

Living on Earth: September 24, 2010

Anna Swanson and Meg Stratton on School and Community Gardens: Helping kids and community members understand food origins

Perrin Selcer, "The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment" (Columbia UP, 2018): Having been born into a world in which people knew about anthropogenic global warming, I grew up in the “global environment.”

Living on Earth: November 9, 2007

233: Colin Walker on Gardening with Ecology at its Heart: Focusing on a larger picture to understand how to effectively grow a good garden.

Living on Earth: March 6, 2015

#125 Cows Can Save the Planet with Judith Schwartz

Emery Roe, “Making the Most of Mess” (Duke UP 2014): Emery Roe is the author of Making the Most of Mess: Reliability and Policy in Today’s Management Challenges (Duke UP 2014). Roe is senior associate with the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at the University of California, Berkeley.

S02 Episode 60 | THE SUSTAINABLE APPAREL COALITION + QUESTIONING FASHION'S IMPACT: THE SUSTAINABLE APPAREL COALITION + QUESTIONING FASHION'S IMPACT

The Hemp Car Cover-up

Transportation Inequity in Baltimore: Topic: Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Environmental Justice and Equitable Development Series – transportation inequity Guest & Organization: Tracee Strum-Gilliam, AICP is the Director of Mid-Atlantic Client Solutions for PRR. For her,

Emery Roe, “Making the Most of Mess” (Duke UP 2014): Emery Roe is the author of Making the Most of Mess: Reliability and Policy in Today’s Management Challenges (Duke UP 2014). Roe is senior associate with the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at the University of California, Berkeley.

Joel Salatin: How to Prepare for A Future Increasingly Defined By Localized Food and Energy

What's a renewable resource and why should you care?: Renewable resources can have a major impact on the developed and developing worlds. Find out how renewable resources particularly affect women around the world in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.

Editor's Letter

Why the Planet Earth II Episode on Cities Is So Startling

Forest Of Dreams

What Kinds Of Projects Do You Want To See More Of In The Magazine?

What’s New?

For Lounge Potatoes…

A Green Chulha for Rural India

New Horizons

Within and Without

'Earn Trust, Build Bonds'

01 We’ll Generate Our Own Resources

View Master

Greening Up

THE CULTIVATED PLOT: PONDS, POLITICS & A WEDDING!

2 Loving Laundry

Bambelela Vervet Monkey Rehabilitation

Paying Farmers Not to Farm Saved Sage Grouse

Waste to Wealth

Plant People

California Moves Forward With Plan To Require Solar Panels On New Homes

Points Of Progress: Carnivores Are Bouncing Back, And More

The New Showroom On The Block

Don't Miss A Beat

THE Essentials

Readers Write: Dangers Of Plastic Pollution, Possible Solution In Charcoal, Walk Through Little-seen Aspects Of Africa, And Race Against Time

Will Chevron’s New CEO Show More Vision on Climate?

04 Taking Back the Block

What’s New At South Australia’s Oldest Farmers’ Market

Why City Planners Should Make Water a Top Priority

Homegrown Revolution