Integral Systems, Paper Waste and Mycelium

The concept of reusing goods is not a new one, but radical re-imaginings are becoming more frequent as more and more people understand and strive towards sustainable practices. Through zerowaste labs, my interest in permaculture and the recent Open Source…

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dax in Zero Waste Labs

Jun 9, 2016

EXPERIMENT / Growing Mushrooms on Coffee Grounds Part III — Fruiting

The results are in! Of the three bags we previously set to colonize, only one successfully produced fruits. One of them was extremely slow to colonize, but in fact, after breaking up some of the large chunks of…

Mei in Zero Waste Labs

May 31, 2016

Field Trip / Systems Design of Top Farmers Aquaponic Farm

One Friday on our lunch break, a few of us rode to Top Farmer’s Aquaponic research lab in Berlin. We’re a group of designers and technologists who’ve been enriching our understanding of systems design, in particular by looking at…