NEWS ARCHIVES

Selected media highlights include ...

Digital

• Entrepreneur.com, February 13, 2013, "Unlocking Business Ideas Hidden in the Natural World," by Jane Porter.

• Gigaom, January 8, 2013, “Fireflies are inspiring brighter LEDs,” by Katie Fehrenbacher (mention).

• El Mundo (online) 3/7/12, “La espiral de la vida,” by Carlos Fresneda.

• El Mundo, 1/20/12, “Techología que imita a la naturaleza,” by Carlos Fresneda.

• Earth/Sky (in partnership with Fast Company), 11/1/11, “Jay Harman froze a whirlpool to clean water or air,” by Jorge Salazar.

• Newsweek, 3/28/10, “Nature is the Model Factory," by Michael Freeman.

• Wired Online, January 2010, “Innovation Inspired by Nature," by Tom Cheshire.

• Fast Company blog, October 2010, “Biomimicry, the Zoo, and San Diego Too,"by Glenn Croston.

• FLYP, February 13-26, 2009, “The flow of Ideas," by Amy Van Vechten.

• BNET, September 25, 2008, "What is Biomimicry?," by Hillary Wolley.

• CNN.com International, July 8, 2008, “The Future of Nature: Inspiring Designs,” produced by Stephanie Busari.

• City on a Hill Press, June 5, 2008, “Biomimicry gives Ideas to Artists and Engineers," by Pel Beyak.

• CNET (News blog) March 4, 2008, “Khosla invests in turbine tech maker PAX,” by Stefanie Olsen.

• Open for Design (online publication of Infinity Automobiles), March 15, 2007, "Nature Throws Curves.”

• Slate (online publication), July 18, 2006, “Gimme Nature: The bat-eared robot and the boxfish car,” by Amanda Schaffer.

• CNET, March 1, 2006, “Turning nature's design into scientific breakthrough,” by Stefanie Olsen.

• Northwest Current, January 31, 2005, "Learning Efficiency From Nature," by Celeste LeCompte.

TV/Radio/Movies

• NPR January 2016, Dr. Moira Gunn’s Technation, Jay Harman interviewed.

• 2014 Bioneers Radio Program, September 11, 2014, Jay Harman and Janine Benyus interview. Listen to the episode
  This episode WON THE 2015 BRONZE AWARD in the New York Festivals' World's Best Radio Programs!

• Michael Krasny's Forum radio program, September 11, 2014, Jay Harman featured in episode. Listen to Forum

• Terrence McNally's radio series Stories of a World that Just Might Work, Interview with Jay Harman, 11/3/13

• If You Love This Planet, July 5, 2012, Jay Harman interviewed by Dr. Helen Caldicott.

• Elemental (Go Project Films), premiered October 2012, Mill Valley Film Festival.

• NBC, 11/19/11 Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World, by Balcony films (Julie Bergman Sender and Stuart Sender).

• Innovators (Bloomberg TV), “Designed by Nature,” aired April 29, 2010, hosted by Matt Miller

• Brink (Science Channel), aired July 27, 2009, “Inspired by Nature,” hosted by Josh Zepps

• Business with Passion (Many Good Ideas/cable access), aired March 9, 2009, hosted by Jay Hamilton-Roth

• Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream, “An Emerging Dream” segment, the Pachamama Alliance, 2008

• Carbon Nation, a film by Peter Byck; premiered 2010

• The California Report (radio), aired September 15, 2006, “Bio-Mimicry: A Different Kind of Intelligent Design” segment (producer, Andrea Kissack)

Print

• Prism Magazine, ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education), Bee's Knees, by Mary Lord & Mark Matthews, 5/2014.

• zq6 (Zygote quarterly, Summer 2013), “Spiral Hegira: PAX Scientific's Curving Path to Clearing the Air," by Tom McKeag

• zq4 (Zygote quarterly, Winter 2012), “People: Interview with Jay Harman."

• OdeWire, 11/9/12, “Spinning into control,” by Jurriaan Kamp.

• Newsweek, 3/28/10, “Nature is the Model Factory," by Michael Freeman.

• Marin Magazine, March 2009, “Green Behind the Scene," by Mandy Behbehani.

• Fast Company, October 2008, “Truly Intelligent Design,”by Kate Rockwood.

• INC Magazine, November 2008, "Blue is the New Green," by Adam Bluestein.

• Wiedza i Zycie, September 2008, Zakrecony Pasjonat" segment of“ Wielkie Sciaganie,” by Jaroslaw Chrostowski and Elzbieta Weiteska.

• North Bay Business Journal, August 25, 2008, "Conserving water, improving effciency," by Loralee Stevens

• Trend magazine, Summer/Fall 2008, “O, Bioneers!,” by Nancy Zimmerman.

• Illawarra Mercury newspaper (Australia), June 24, 2008, “Giving Invention a Whirl.”

• New York Times, June 8, 2008, "Nature Gave Him a Blueprint but Not Overnight Success," by John Markoff.

• Azure Magazine, May 2008, "Form Follows Nature," by Rachel Pulfer.

• National Geographic France, April 2008, “Les 100 meilleurs inventeurs de la nature,” by Céline Lison.

• Fortune, April 24, 2008, "Mimic Nature, Invent Faster," by David Kirkpatrick.

• Seed, April 2008, “Design and the Elastic Mind,” by Paola Antonelli.

• San Francisco Chronicle, March 23, 2008, “Tapping into Nature's Genius,” by Mark Simborg.

• International Appliance Manufacturing 2008, "Novel Fan Design Offers Energy Savings to Refrigeration Market," by John Belko.

• Business 2.0, June 2007, "Product Design, Nature's Way,” by Ethan Watters. (See both pages 16 and 86 for PAX coverage.)

• The New York Times, October 24, 2006, “San Rafael Journal: At This Gathering, the Only Alternative Is to Be Alternative,” by Patricia Leigh Brown.

• Marin Independent Journal, June 7, 2006, “Firm tries to mimic grand designs,” by Carla Bova.

• Utne, April 2006, “Mimicking Mother Nature,” by Andy Isaacson.

• Appliance Design Magazine, October 2005, "Driving Motor Design," by Jill Russell.

• San Francisco Chronicle, September 14, 2005, "Nature may offer vital clues on rebuilding New Orleans forests and butterflies hold key to better design," by Susan Fornoff.

• Fortune, August 26, 2005, "Learning at Mother Nature's Knee," John Greenwald.

• Sierra, July/August 2005, "Earth's Innovators," by Dashka Slater.

• Utne, July/August 2005, “The Good Ship," by Chuck Terhark.

• Studio 360, July 23, 2005, “Design for the Real World,” audio interview by Mary Stucky.

• Sarasota Herald Tribune, April 18, 2005, “The shape of things to come,” by Michael Pollick.

• ODE, November 2004, “Jay Harman: Let it Flow,” by Jurriaan Kamp.

• Horizons, May 2004, “Replicating Success,” by Kathy Witkowsky.