A Quote by Janine Benyus

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.

Janine Benyus

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Bacteria Bandwagon Biomimicry Clean Clean Water Cork Everyone Floor Jump Neither Trying Using Water

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Janine Benyus
American - Writer
Born: 1958

Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All you need is a cork, a bar magnet, and a pail of water. Simply attach your magnet to your cork, then drop it into the water, and voilà (literally, "you have a compass")-you have a compass. How does it work? Simple. Notice that, no matter which way you turn the bucket, the cork always floats on top of the water (unless the magnet is too heavy). Using this scientific principle, early hardy mariners were able to tell at a glance whether they were sinking!

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Ted Lieu

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Bonnie Bassler

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Sandor Katz

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Josh Fox

When the bandwagon presents itself, you have to jump onto it.

Manuel Rivas

I've seen a lot of people jump on and off my bandwagon.

Brett Favre

I'd never jump on a bandwagon; sometimes people do that and it's not what I wanted to do.

Amy Macdonald

I'm a sheep when it comes to opinions; I will change my mind and jump on the bandwagon.

Sharon Horgan

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Jagmeet Singh

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Bryan Robson

Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.

Bud Shuster

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Michael Phelps

So many diseases and illnesses have fundamental roots in the lack of clean water. Resolving the clean water crisis would mitigate a lot of problems.

Jimmy Chin

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Mario Batali

We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high. Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature, and now that debt is being called.

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