Biomimicry and Ray of Hope Accelerator

The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has partnered with the Biomimicry Institute to create the  Ray of Hope Accelerator, designed to bring commercially viable solutions from the design lab to the market. The prize is focused on nature-inspired solutions that address one or more of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Meet the New Food System Game-Changers
Winners announced for 2016 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Using Nature's Design Principles to Create a Radically Sustainable Food System
Hundreds of students and professionals answered the call to help fix our broken food system by looking to nature to create design solutions. Now, after receiving 86 submissions from 18 countries, the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge judges have chosen ten winning teams.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

It’s Full Speed Ahead for the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge Accelerator Teams
Last October, eight teams from around the world were chosen to be part of the first-ever biomimicry food systems accelerator.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Bioneers to Host the First Biomimicry Global Design Challenge Ray of Hope Prize Awards Event
One finalist team will win the Ray C. Anderson Foundation’s $100,000 grand prize for a nature-inspired food-systems solution at Bioneers 2016.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

The Land Institute Adds $1,000 Prize to Biomimicry Global Design Challenge
The Land Institute is offering a $1000 prize for the best submission that addresses their specific design brief in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

International Living Future Institute Adds $10K Prize Incentive to 2016 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge
Can we design products that function as elegantly as anything found in the natural world? And can those products mimic nature’s design principles?

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Earthworm-Inspired Soil Solution Captures First Place in Nature-Inspired Global Challenge
A design created to help farmers keep nutrients in the soil won first prize in the first food system-focused Biomimicry Global Design Challenge. This innovation, created by a team of students from the University of Oregon, was based in part on the earthworm’s digestive system and decreases the amount of fertilizer needed while improving soil health over time.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Eight Reasons to be Hopeful About the Future of our Food System
In late summer, the ideas started pouring in from every corner of the world.
Thousands of designers, architects, biologists, engineers, students, nature-lovers, and big thinkers had answered the call to completely rethink our food system using design inspiration from nature.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Using Nature’s Design Principles to Feed Nine Billion
Earlier this year, hundreds of people from around the world took on a challenge to fix our global food system by looking to nature for design solutions. Now, eight finalist teams have been invited to prototype their solutions in an accelerator program that will award $100,000 to the top contender in an effort to increase speed to market for biomimetic solutions to global problems.

Responsible Production & the Circular Economy

Biomimicry--A Growing Movement in the Marketplace
Biomimicry is a hot topic...providing breakthrough, sustainable solutions at a time when our world desperately needs them.

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