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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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🎶 PONCHO created the song of the spring, 'Cherr

🎶 PONCHO created the song of the spring, 'Cherry Blossom', in collaboration with RUSH to celebrate the beauty of sakura season and to bring some buzz to our cherry blossom map layer!

🌸🌸🌸 Find it at whatstherush.ca, under the Create Community tab! We'd love it if you tagged us in your blooming photos.

HUGE thank you to @poncho.ybf and @jaydenbrowncreative (producer and videographer) for their epic collaboration. Check out Poncho's latest EP 'SONOFTHESUN', streaming everywhere!

#cherryblossomfestival #cherryblossomseason #commuitymapping #rush #whatstherush #newmusic #afrobeats #crd #victoria #canada

🌸 Spring is here, and with the changing of the

🌸 Spring is here, and with the changing of the seasons comes the pink and white petals of blooming cherry blossom trees! If you are as excited as we are to watch our landscape blush, head to whatstherush.ca to view our cherry blossom map layer, and plan yourself a pastel pink walk to signal the end of winter, and welcome the warmth of spring!

How do you celebrate sakura season? Comment below!

#cherryblossom #sakura #cherryblossomfestival #createcommunity #springhassprung #rush

Our friends at SeaChange Marine conservation Socie

Our friends at SeaChange Marine conservation Society have finished working on their colouring book for the Resilient Estuaries of the Salish Sea project! Fun for the whole family, this colouring book is filled with incredible images and insightful information about estuaries the marine species that live there, as well as how RESS and SeaChange are helping the marine environment.

Can't wait to get your hands on a copy?
Email connect@seachangesociety.com with the subject line “RESS colouring book” and they'll send you a PDF version to print yourself!

🍓Hosted by the Gorge Waterway Action Society, Q

🍓Hosted by the Gorge Waterway Action Society, Queering Climate Action is an exciting event series that will incorporate queer knowledge and art in climate action!

RSVP to this Friday's event to participate, and check out the other events in their series! We couldn't be more excited!

🍅 Curious about connecting with local consumers

🍅 Curious about connecting with local consumers? Come to Seedy Saturday at Belmont Secondary School in Landford on March 8th!

RUSH is teaming up with @reimaginewestshore, @uvic.mapshop, @cityofcolwood, the District of Metchosin, and the Metchosin Grown Society to create a FARM TO FORK map that showcases local producers!

You won't want to miss it!

#farmtofork #communitymapping #eatlocal