Building resiliency in the face of a rising sea: How coastal communities can learn from nature

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges the world has ever faced. Flooding, storm surge, and sea level rise are serious threats to natural resources, infrastructure, and human communities in coastal areas. In effort to adapt to these changing conditions, planners and policymakers should consider nature’s strategies when developing coastal resiliency plans to protect communities from increasing coastal erosion and flooding due to rising sea levels.

Jacques ChiraziJune 25, 2017Biomimicry SwitzerlandComment

What can Nature teach us about stress management?

"What do the ecology, the economic system, the company, the city, the organization, the cell have in common? Nothing if we examine them with the usual instrument, the analytical approach. But many, if we highlight the great organizational rules and regulations of all these systems. "

Life in nature has 3.8 billion years of research, development and testing experience. That means chances are very high that the structures we find in nature exhibit optimal shapes what means maximum strength with the least amount of material. Prof. Dr. Claus Mattheck analysed these structures and developed the striking simple method of the tension triangle.