One of the world’s biggest architectural firms looks to Mother Nature for ideas.

What if the outside of a building worked more like a leaf?

About 30 years ago, a German botanist named Wilhelm Barthlott noticed the bumpy structure of the leaves of the lotus plant, which clean themselves by forcing rainwater to bead, collect dirt and wash it away. He patented what is now called the "Lotus-Effect " and licensed it to manufacturers of self-cleaning paints, glass and roofing tiles, which are used in thousands of buildings in Europe.

This is an example of biomimicry , an emerging discipline that draws inspiration from nature to design new products, systems, and buildings – even cities and towns.

What gets people excited about biomimicry is its potential to help solve environmental problems like climate change. If we can design buildings and products to operate more like nature, which does not pollute and creates no waste, we’d be much better off.

"If you can get the built world right, you get a lot right,"said Benyus.

biomimicry- the copying or imitation of a natural phenomenon’s or environment’s efficiency and survival mechanisms in manufacturing processes or in applied case-based reasoning; also written biomimickry

Everyone, please do take some time and visit this website and watch the Greenest House in America .  Aim Green

http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/03/magazines/fortune/gunther_biomimicry.fortune/index.htm

Study nature , love nature , stay close to nature .  It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Earth – 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on; "the earth moves around the sun"

Air – a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.

Water – A clear, colorless, odorless, and tasteless liquid, H₂ O, essential for most plant and animal life and the most widely used of all solvents.

Fire – a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.

If you haven’t gone green now is the time you will come to see that it just makes sense.  Since the beginning of time it was a way of life but of course times has change since then which makes even more sense to jump on board the Go Green ship.

I will be sharing simple ways for us to make change and save change going Green and you are welcome to use this platform to express your go green way.