I enjoyed the presentation of Biomimicry and it made me think about the self assembly of the Abalone with that of building roads. For decades, we have been transporting hydrocarbons from far away places and placing them on dirt to become roadway surfaces in the form of asphalt. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to find an organism that would suck the pollution out of the air and have it organically arrange itself into a self healing roadway surface? It might take me a week or two… but I’m working on it!     John