Biomimicry & Green Chemistry for Sustainability

UMass Amherst

May 2016

Biomimicry is the practice of emulating life’s time-tested strategies and deep patterns to generate sustainable designs. Green Chemistry is the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. Both offer a new way of valuing nature and designing in life-friendly ways. In this 6-day course, we’ll explore the foundations and practice using the tools of both Biomimicry and Green Chemistry. Your instructors will guide your discovery of life’s amazing strategies in local ecosystems and how these strategies can inspire solutions to human challenges in design, product development, business, engineering and more. This course is developed and produced by Biomimicry New England in partnership with UMass Amherst. 

Faculty include: Timothy Randhir, Associate Professor, Environmental Conservation, UMass Amherst; Tim McGee, Biologist and Biomimicry Professional; Karen Allen, Certified Biomimicry Professional & Biologist; John Warner, President & CTO, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry; Amy Cannon, Executive Director, Beyond Benign; Peter Lawrence, President, Biomimicry New England.

If you have questions, please email peter@biomimicryne.org.

More information and registration on the UMass Amherst website.