Mycelium

— Orkan Telhan, Ecovative Director of Foundry Engineering Rendering of a BTBR array for high-throughput testing of mycelium materials. At Ecovative, we design and grow materials with mycelium. Discovering the many unique properties of fungi means doing a lot of testing. As the director of the Foundry Engineering team, my…

Mycelium > Meat — Isabella Iglesias-Musachio on Bosque Foods’ Story Isabella Iglesias-Musachio, who calls herself a “citizen scientist,” is passionate about improving the world through innovations in meat-free protein. As the founder and CEO of Bosque Foods, she leads a team focused on creating nutritionally rich, tasty, fungi-based cutlets and…

Let me ask you something. Who bought life to earth? — Jovial joey answers — As per panspermia theory, tiny microscopic organisms that were trapped in asteroids bought life. Well, Joey may be right, but what can those microscopic forms be? Answer — They were fungus! Nowww, the fungus can…

One of the likely revolutions in the war on plastic will be the adoption of mycelium as a material. Why? It grows fast Is lightweight Has strength Can be moulded to different forms Lasts a long time (but not too long) Has different textures One texture is that of meat, and it’s edible, making for some new food materials. Just check out Stash Sauce’s short testing out a mycelium steak: You wouldn't know this wasn't steak Mycelium Steak www.youtube.com

The same scurry of youthful squirrels that explored this back yard in April still chase one another this morning.

A Screaming Comes Across the Sky The same scurry of youthful squirrels that explored this back yard in April still chase one another this morning. Do they prepare for winter as October winds wind down from a shout to a chant, when the unseen circuitry between flaming maples avoids conclusion? …

Cutting letters is an old profession. With the emergence of computer aided design and with the availability of plastic foams anyone can have their own letters. It is used mainly in interiors as logotypes or for other marketing / advertising reasons — just make it big. We had a conference…

For the most part, source-based recycling of plastic has been a failure. It makes us feel good but it doesn’t have the impact we intend and it is way too little compared to the other sources of plastic waste we produce in consuming other goods. Plastics are incredibly convenient. They…

At Kingstone Schweizer Ventures, we believe that accelerating global sustainability trends are providing a massive opportunity for venture-backed start-ups. To capture this opportunity, we invest across three verticals: energy, food and agriculture, and materials 2.0. These three sectors produce 86% of greenhouse gas emissions. The natural characteristics of mycelia perfectly…