Beth Rattner is Executive Director for the Biomimicry Institute, which attract thousands of students and professionals each year to create nature-inspired solutions for a healthy planet. Prior to this position, she was the executive Director and Vice President of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, a non-profit she co-founded with William McDonough, Michael Braungart, and Bridget Luther.
Rattner’s background, however, was not on the non-profit side, but rather working with Fortune 500 companies as a sustainability management consultant and as an employee at Hewlett Packard. At HP, Rattner helped establish the Emerging Market Solutions group, providing technology-based microfinance opportunities for those who earned less than $2 a day, specifically women in India and South Africa.
Rattner is a California Attorney, Writer, student, and advocate for all living things.
The Imitating Nature Game
Session Description: Will insect swarm logic be the key to better energy management? Can slime mold and mushrooms end our reliance on blacktop and cement? From packaging to turbulence, urban planning to leadership, what can we learn from the problem-solvers of the natural world?
Conferences
Techonomy 15
Technology as scapegoat has driven fears since at least the industrial revolution. That is as true as ever today, with fears of privacy intrusion, our devices inducing inattention, withdrawal from human contact into screens, job-killing robots, and innumerable business models being destroyed.
