The Biomimicry Global Design Challenge is hosted by the Biomimicry Institute (TBI), in partnership with the Ray C. Anderson Foundation, and is open to students and professionals around the world.
The Global Challenge features two entry categories: an open category and a student-only category. All participants get access to the Design Challenge Toolbox and supporting resources, including sessions with mentors and biomimicry professionals. Those who submit to the design concept rounds are eligible to win substantial cash prizes, as well as additional business incubation support and the opportunity to compete in the prototype round.
The winner of the annual prototype round will receive the Ray C. Anderson Foundation’s $100,000 “Ray of Hope” Prize. The prototyping round will began on October 2015
Food. It's not just the way we fuel our bodies, but perhaps the most intimate way we interact with our environment. Everything we eat comes from nature, and begins as something growing on land or at sea. While our food is rooted in a vast chain of ecological relationships, it's also part of an increasingly complex and problematic system of our own design. It's a system that has resulted in depleted soils, landfills full of packaging waste and uneaten food, and dependence on expensive inputs, like chemical fertilizers—all while nearly 1 billion people go hungry every day. From seed (or sea) to table and everywhere in between, there's a lot we need to improve.
The good news is that healthy ecosystems are models of abundance, fertility, and resiliency, and taking cues from nature can help us make the improvements we need. Whether addressing waste, growing methods, pest management, packaging, preservation and distribution, soil quality, or a changing climate, nature offers innumerable strategies for solving issues around food and agriculture in innovative ways. And nature does so while supporting biodiversity and minimizing water use, energy use, and waste.
The entry must involve a technology, product, service, or process that addresses a challenge related to improving the food system.
Biomimicry San Diego will facilitate a detail presentation on the 2015 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge on April 28th 2015. The presentation will discuss the 2015 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge theme in greater details and also explain the submission process, local support, review and award process.
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Biomimicry San Diego Team