Biomimicry 3.8

We are excited to have our CEO Nicole Miller representing Biomimicry 3.8 at SB’26 San Diego. If you’re planning to attend, reach out so we can connect beforehand. Use code spk26atd for 20% off your ticket – register here: https://lnkd.in/ddB5pxg8 Sustainable Brands #SB26SanDiego

Why can’t we…? One thing I love about working with Nature’s lessons across all contexts - it never fails to illuminate the many assumptions underlying and determining the outcomes of our day-to-day. So not only do you learn how to do things differently, but you also uncover why things are or aren’t working now. That’s extremely powerful. With Biomimicry 3.8’s expert facilitators practiced in bringing the transformative power of Nature’s genius to real-world application, the Trust Lab experience sheds light on human dynamics and relationships through uncovering, demystifying, and reframing. Simple, yet a door to the adjacent possible will open. How can intentional design for growing trust in your teams, partnerships, and/or [____] take you to the next level? We’d love to explore the opportunity with you! 👇 #biomimicry #natureinspired #nature #itspossible

What have you been discovering about The Nature of Trust? Earlier this year we launched The Nature of Trust, a co-creation of Biomimicry for Social Innovation and Biomimicry 3.8, which reveals what living systems can teach us about how trust forms, grows, and endures in human systems. Grounded in more than two years of biological research, synthesis, and field-testing, this work translates Nature’s evolutionary intelligence into practical tools for building and maintaining trust in complex social contexts.    The Nature of Trust research findings are freely accessible — and there is a lot there. We’re curious: what you have you enjoyed discovering about The Nature of Trust? Explore our free resources – including videos, group discussion prompts, team activities, and more – here → https://lnkd.in/eeNGaZdd Learn more about the team and process behind the work with this short trailer about The Nature of Trust →  🎥 https://lnkd.in/e6ys7S_e #Trust #Biomimicry #NatureofTrust #LivingSystems #SocialInnovation

Imagine resolving the biggest trust challenge in your organization in a single day. Wouldn’t that be nice?   Unfortunately, that is not how trust works. Trust is not fixed by insight alone—or by a workshop. It is shaped by countless decisions and actions inside a system. Intentionally designing the conditions that lead to better decisions and actions is how trust can emerge, grow, and be less likely to fail under pressure—and that is precisely why the Trust Lab exists.  The one-day Trust Lab is a focused, in‑person workshop grounded in the Nature of Trust work—more than two years of biological research, synthesis, and real‑world application examining how living systems establish and maintain trust, and what organizations can apply from those strategies. For one day, teams work directly with the eight principles that shape trust—using them as opportunities to examine their unique organizational context. This is not a theory‑based training. It is guided, applied practice with the people who shape outcomes together. Teams leave with immediate value: shared language around trust, clearer understanding of the conditions at play in their system, and hands‑on experience practicing how to design those conditions more intentionally moving forward.  Trust by design—before erosion becomes a limiting factor. Schedule a call to discuss fit and timing: https://lnkd.in/eGJMSxHY Or send us a message for more details. #NatureofTrust #trustlab #collaboration #biomimicry #workshop

At the Beautiful Business Forum in Athens, Greece, diverse thought leaders convened to exchange perspectives on business, technology, collaboration, and systemic change. For Biomimicry 3.8, this kind of cross‑sector dialogue is foundational—innovation emerges through the intersection of disciplines. Our CEO, Nicole Miller, shares key takeaways on how ideas from across the forum converged around structure, connection, and collective capacity. https://lnkd.in/gKrpsHG8

“Sustainability” has an honesty problem. Yes, greenwashing, but it’s goes much, much deeper than that. A client told me the other day that "sustainability" as a term is basically meaningless these days. Why? You might be doing the most important sustainability work in the world. You might tell important stories and provide data about it. But your work is largely invisible - no one can see the GHGs that are no longer spewing from your stack, the groundwater you are no longer pulling from your well, the PFAS you’re no longer putting in your liners. But the cues we are all experiencing - such as more extreme weather events, diminishing water supplies, increasing cancer rates - tell us it’s lip service. The signals you’re putting out don’t match the tangible cues we are picking up. Honesty in the Nature of Trust work tells us that signals and cues must match for trust in your brand to grow.  "Communication strategies in social systems are deeply embedded in actual conditions. … By being inextricably linked to tangible realities, …these communication methods maintain the integrity of the exchange and support lasting, trustworthy relationships."  🌼🐝 🌱 That’s why I think the addition of #Nature to the sustainability mix is a game changer. 🌱 The actions you take towards #naturepositive [or #regenerative, #biodiversity, #ecosystems, etc.] create tangible, on the ground outcomes that people can see and experience for themselves. They are also visible from satellites. They’re verifiable. They are either there or they are not. The cues are unmistakable (and there is some super cool science behind that as well!). And the stories you tell about them can be positively compounded by the additional stories told by those who experience and verify them, reinforcing trust in your [sustainable] brand. Nature’s insights never fail to help me think differently - on any topic! It’s my passion to help others do the same. Want to dig deeper? 👇 ✨ Do a 1-day Nature at Work practice lab with us to explore how to improve trust in your brand 🐋 Check out the incredible Nature of Trust body of work by Biomimicry 3.8 and Biomimicry for Social Innovation 🌱 Upgrade your cues! Learn what others are doing to take #naturepositive action backed by Nature’s intelligence at #ProjectPositive. And please reach out! I’d love to connect. #biomimicry #natureoftrust #ProjectPositive #sustainability

What if your team looked to a mountain for strategy advice? That's exactly the premise of our upcoming AskNature Hive Biomimicry Workshop — What the Mountain Knows (and you don't yet) with facilitator Michaela Emch 🌱. Alpine ecosystems have been navigating complexity, disruption, and change for thousands of years. On May 15, we're using that wisdom as a lens for organizational life — mapping what your team produces, how it regulates, what holds its culture, and what keeps everything quietly standing. One hour. Four principles. One map we'll build together. 📅 May 13 | 12:30 PM PT | For AskNature Hive Members Online 45-min workshop + 15 min Q&A and co-creation New to the Hive? Your first month is on us. 👇 https://lnkd.in/epRaj8Jj

Today’s fashion and textile industry epitomizes the take-make-waste approach to our natural resources that is at the core of our climate and ecological crises. The Nature of Fashion project, alongside global partners leading the development and implementation of new approaches to textile waste management, are combating this challenge, demonstrating the potential of decomposition to build a regenerative, nature positive future. The project shows that a regenerative fashion economy is not theoretical: it’s already emerging through practical interventions and collaborative experimentation. In our May 20th AskNature Hive Live conversation, Andrew Keys, Research Analyst Circle Economy, and The Biomimicry Institute's own Asha Singhal, Director of Nature of Fashion, explore how their work and collaboration strives to transform the fashion industry by learning from nature on a materials and systems level, shifting current economic models, and driving a circular transition. Hosted by AskNature Coordinator, Ayoade Balogun. 🐝 Curious about the Hive? Join our growing community of nature-inspired thinkers, designers, and doers. As a welcome gift, enjoy your first month of exploration—on us! Join a community of like-minded disruptors looking to nature’e genius for inspiration. https://lnkd.in/gh_uadJU