The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has pledged $ 1.5 million over four years to support the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, a
multi-year effort to crowdsource, support, and seed promising
innovations inspired by nature.Each yearbeginning in 2016, the Institute and Foundation together will award the $ 100,000 «Ray of Hope» Prize to the most viable prototype that embodies the radical sustainability principles of biomimicry.