Biomimicry and Ray of Hope Prize

The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has partnered with the Biomimicry Institute to create the Biomimicry Launchpad and the $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize™, designed to bring commercially viable solutions from the design lab to the market. The prize is focused on nature-inspired solutions that address one or more of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

 

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Content from this campaign

Innovation & Technology

This Paint Inspired by Butterflies Could Be the Secret to Cooler Cities
Cypris Materials has created a paint inspired by blue morpho butterfly wings, which get their color from blue lightwaves reflecting off the nanostructure of the wings themselves.

Health & Healthcare

Biomimicry Innovation: change:WATER Labs
change:WATER Labs is changing the way humans process waste, and it all has to do with water. They recognized that if water is removed from human waste, all that's left is a compact solid that would be much easier to collect and sterilize.

Innovation & Technology

Cypris Materials Introduces Nature Inspired, Tunable, Structural Color Coating
Cypris Materials, Inc. has cracked nature's code on nanostructures by creating a new type of paint that can be used from cosmetics to the auto industry.

Events, Media & Communications

Biomimicry Fireside Chat on Innovation
Biomimimcry Fireside Chat: Innovation and Biomimicry: From Founding to Funding: Bringing a Biomimetic Startup to Market

Environment

Ray of Hope Prize Winner Showcased in Animated Video
ECOncrete wins $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize. Animated video overview released.

Environment

Introducing the 2020 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge Finalists
The Biomimicry Institute announces the 10 finalist teams that have created solutions inspired by nature that address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Awards, Ratings & Rankings

Good for Business, Good for the Planet: The Judges Behind the World's Foremost Biomimicry Prize
Learn more about the experts that deliberated on the only international prize that examines how startups see nature as our mentor and not as a warehouse of goods.

Environment

ECOncrete® Wins $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize®
The Biomimicry Institute and the Ray C. Anderson Foundation are proud to announce that this year’s Ray of Hope Prize® has been awarded to ECOncrete Tech LTD., a science-based company that develops high performance, environmentally-sensitive concrete products for coastal and marine infrastructure projects.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Biomimicry: Using Nature's Perfect Innovation Systems to Design the Future
Biomimicry has the potential to save the human race and the planet. That’s an attractive offer at a time when COVID has turned everything we know and thought we could count on, on its head.  

Events, Media & Communications

Join the Live Watch Party for “The Promise of Biomimicry” Premiering January 23
Tune in on January 23 to get a firsthand perspective of how the Biomimicry Institute is pioneering an open-access platform for nature-inspired design.

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