Biomimicry

1. Organisms

1.1. Creating sewage and water systems that mimic soil ecosystems. Maintaining soil functions. Creating synthetic soils for use in restoring degraded sites, road cuts, mudslide areas. Creating synthetic soils in areas where topsoil has been lost. Creating hard surfaces in urban areas that replace some of the functions of soils.

2. "New research...shows that in some structured communities, organisms increase their chances of survival if they evolve some level of restraint that allows competitors to survive as well, a sort of 'survival of the weakest.' The phenomenon was observed in a community of three 'nontransitive' competitors, meaning their relationship to each other is circular as in the children's game rock-paper-scissors in which scissors always defeats paper, paper always defeats rock and rock always defeats scissors...'By becoming a better competitor in a well-mixed system, it could actually drive itself to extinction,' said Joshua Nahum...The restrained patches, the ones that grew slower, seemed to last longer and the unrestrained patches, the ones that grew faster, burned themselves out faster'.

3. Adapt

3.1. Unlike modern industry, biological systems are capable of performing complex chemistry with both water-soluble (polar) and oily (non-polar) compounds in a water-based environment. Most industrial operations, however, rely on often toxic chemical solvents to perform complex reactions with non-polar substances. Organisms have evolved the ability to manipulate non-polar molecules in water because they have no other choice--Earth is a water-based environment. They've achieved this feat by developing what could be referred to as “micro environments” that provide non-polar substances a favorable molecular-sized, water-soluble envelop including globular proteins, lipid bilayers, and micelles.

4. Sight

4.1. Kingfishers have specialized eyes and excellent eyesight. The retina of each eye has two fovea. The cone cells have a high proportion of red droplets, which may act as chromatic filters, allowing sight through the surface of the water.

5. Evolved