• Offers positive nature-inspired solutions to current environmental problems, like climate change and pollution.
• Showcases STEAM-themed inventions from designers, engineers and scientists around the world, including inspiring kid-designs.
• Timely, given current news coverage of kid activists such as Greta Thunberg and Autumn Peltier.
• Biomimicry as a practice has only been around since the 1990s. There is now an annual Biomimicry Youth Design Challenge hosted by the Biomimicry Institute, where young people from all over come to design bio-inspired ideas as solutions to the climate crisis.

?“Fascinating…An appealing resource sure to spark an interest in biomimicry, from casual readers to budding scientists. Recommended for all ­libraries.”—School Library Journal, starred review

Did you know that lamps can be powered by glowing bacteria instead of electricity? That gloves designed like gecko feet let people climb straight up glass walls? Or that kids are finding ways to make compostable plastic out of banana peels? Biomimicry, the scientific term for when we learn from and copy nature, is a revolutionary way to look to nature for answers to environmental problems such as climate change.

In Design Like Nature young readers discover innovations and inventions inspired by the environment. Nature runs the entire planet with no waste and no pollution. Can humans learn to do this too? It's time to step outside and start designing like nature.

The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.