Sustainable business and clean technology expert (and fellow Biomimicry Institute board member) Joel Makower offers a great overview of AskNature in this post:

AskNature.org brings much of that wisdom to the public — a free service of the nonprofit Biomimicry Institute (on whose board I sit), with funding from design software company Autodesk. The database is the only public-domain online library of its kind, where users can search for and study nature’s solutions to design challenges. Continued…