Michel Wolfstirn Michel Wolfstirn

Hi! My name is Michel. Originally from France I have been living in Norway since 2006. The amazing nature in this beautiful country made me stay here and call it home. I am very fond of outdoors activities like climbing, skiing, paddling and hiking. Norway provides me with many opportunities to do these in fantastic sceneries. I started my career as a mechanical engineer in the oil industry. I learned about biomimicry thanks to a TED talk and decided that I wanted to do something with it. I saw in it a good opportunity to balance my karma after many years of work with an oil company ;) This lead me to take some online courses in biomimicry with the Biomimicry Institute / ASU. While doing that I got inspired to start BiomimicryNorway as I noticed that there was no local network in my country and the topic was very little known. Together with my friend Nina Havermans we co-founded this organization and have since 2015 run a number of initiatives. We have done many workshops on biomimicry and the circular economy, we have set up an exhibition on the topic at the Natural History Museum of Oslo and are visiting lecturers at a university near Oslo. We’re hoping to get more work done with the industry so that we can live from our activities while contributing to paving the way for a sustainable future.