JFS Newsletter No.114(March 2012) "JFS's 'Get Inspired by Nature' Project" (No. 6) Image by Andrea Kirkby. Some Rights Reserved. Introduction Since August 2011, we have ...

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JFS Newsletter No.113 (January 2012) "JFS's 'Get Inspired by Nature' Project" (N, and the center of its rotor was made from a plastic bottle. I saw that just by catching a slight breeze the blades were rotating, generating electricity, an...

JFS Newsletter No.111 (November 2011) "JFS's 'Get Inspired by Nature' Project" (No. 3) Copyright Japan for Sustainability As part of JFS's "Get Inspired by Nature" Project, we have released series of articles featuring an intervie...

JFS Newsletter No.110 (October 2011) "JFS's 'Get Inspired by Nature' Project" (Nr Sustainability Following last month's article, we present here an interview by Junko Edahiro with Professor Emile H. Ishida of Tohoku University's Graduate ...

JFS Newsletter No.109 (September 2011) "JFS's 'Get Inspired by Nature' Project" University Copyright Prof. Emile H. Ishida This opening article of JFS's "Get Inspired by Nature" Project series features an interview by Junko Edahiro with Profess...

Image by "KIUKO". Some Rights Reserved. Humans have developed civilizations, scie are nowadays becoming a subject of research and development -- technologies inspired from nature -- now being known as "biomimicry" or "nature technology." This J...

Image by ZAKempson. Some Rights Reserved. Literature Design Patterns and Cross-Domain Analogies in Biologically Inspired Sustainable Design Ashok K. Goel (Author), Bert Bras (Author), Michael Helms ...

JFS Newsletter No.108 (August 2011) Image by Jean-François Chénier. Some Rights ny glue. Or the sequoia tree that draws up several tons of water powered only by sunlight, needing no external machines such as pulleys, levers, or pumps.Huma...