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Bite-Sized Interactive Course

Five 1-hour sessions

Introduction to Biomimicry for Schools
$750.00
STAY TUNED FOR 2025. Get ready to bring biomimicry into your classroom with a bird's eye view on what it is and how to teach it. Engage in this interactive online workshop to expand your own practice. Discover companies with biomimetic products and features. Identify Nature's favourite materials, recipes and shapes. Explore deep design patterns. Gain a curated set of educational resources and sample activities. Learn to think like a biomimic. See product details for dates and time.

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Individuals & Teams

6 days in the Pacific Northwest

Biomimicry Thinking: Innovation Inspired by Nature’s Chemistry
STAY TUNED FOR 2025 | Victoria, Canada | How can billions of years of R&D transform modern industries? Tune your senses with experimentation, experience and experts to understand the critical ways in which Nature's chemistry differs from modern commercial chemistries and how this learning can benefit your approach. Biomimicry 3.8 and NatuR&D collaborate to bring you to the Pacific Northwest.

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Nature-Inspired Design Jam

8 – 80 hours

Research & Development: Solve Real World Design Challenges With Nature-Inspired Innovation
Nature has solutions for almost every problem. Unlock new possibilities and potential in redesigning your products and services by looking to Nature for design ideas. These solutions have been tested against time and the elements across scales, providing a head start to making designs that work better for the world.

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🏅Our leaderboard is up and running on the RUSH

🏅Our leaderboard is up and running on the RUSH website! Check out whatstherush.ca to watch the numbers climb as you and your class plot more and more rain gardens!

#communitymapping #raingarden #protectfromflooding #RUSH

💧Notice any rain gardens lately? Whenever you

💧Notice any rain gardens lately?

Whenever you spot a roadside garden or curb-cut catchment that absorbs road water runoff, plot it! By following the link in our bio, you can contribute to the RUSH Initiative's 'Protect from Flooding' map, and help us reach our goal of plotting 1000 rain gardens before the winter solstice!

#communitymapping #RUSH #opengreenmaps #protectfromflooding #mapping #climate #ecology #community

🌷Why Rain Gardens? - Rain gardens filter runoff

🌷Why Rain Gardens?
- Rain gardens filter runoff, protecting our waterways and the being that live in them from accumulated chemicals!
- By plotting rain gardens, we can create a better map of our green infrastructure and develop more resilient cities!
- Plot your rain gardens today!

Whats The RUSH 🌟 Q1 Challenge 💧Plot 1000+ ra

Whats The RUSH 🌟 Q1 Challenge 💧Plot 1000+ rain gardens!

📍RUSH is throwing down the gauntlet! Let's prot

📍RUSH is throwing down the gauntlet! Let's protect our communities from flooding by helping to create sponge cities and plotting the rain gardens in your neighborhoods

Check out our video to learn how you can get involved!

#mapping #spongecity #floodrelief #communitymapping #RUSH #raingarden #communitycare #victoriabc #crd