How can we build a better world with biology and who are the changemakers making it happen? Our Built with Biology Spotlight series highlights the scientists, c...
How is Ecovative Molding Mushrooms into Sustainable Packaging?
It's so fun to get packages in the mail! Or to ship holiday gifts, your hard-made products, and your heartfelt thank yous. But what's not fun is the impact styrofoam and bubble packaging have on our environment.
Meet Ecovative, a leading company innovating modern life with mushrooms! Mycelium packaging is stronger, sustainable, shapable, and fully compostable. Hear all the amazing things we can do with mushrooms to help our planet!
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How is Cemvita Factory Fighting Climate Change?
Many of the everyday items we use like plastics rely on processes that spew huge amounts of CO2 into our atmosphere, causing climate change. How can we decarbonize these industries and transform modern life to be more sustainable?
Meet Cemvita Factory, a company engineering microbes to eat carbon dioxide and output useful products like ethylene, glucose, and oxygen. These innovations can help companies decarbonize dramatically and could also be used for space travel!
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How is Wild Earth Making Pet Food Sustainable?
Our pets are part of the family. They have their favorite nap spots (right where you will trip on them), favorite socks to chew on, and, of course, favorite foods. People the world over are working to lower their personal environmental impact. But how can we do the same for our pets?
Meet Wild Earth, a company making sustainable dog treats and kibble! Listen to Spotlight hosts Nikita and Fiona laugh about their pets, make hiking plans with bio-designed dog treats, and even plan for cultured mouse meat for cats!
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How Spiber is Spinning Proteins Into Spider Silk?
Love 'em or hate 'em, spiders are amazing creatures. The silks they spin are some of the most interesting and diverse materials found in nature. But spiders can't be farmed for these materials, which are stronger than steel, yet stretching, and soft.
Meet Spiber, the bio-materials company brewing spider silk proteins through fermentation! The company has spun its material into t-shirts, Haute couture dresses, major fashion collabs, and even a skateboard!
Listen to hosts Fiona and Nikita riff on fashion, biology, and even a new appreciation of spiders!
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How is Colorifix Making Sustainable Dyes With Biology?
Like all of nature, humans communicate to society with colors and patterns, in our case, through fashion! But today's garment fashion industry uses trillions of gallons of fresh water and toxic chemicals to dye clothes.
Meet Colorifix, a new company dying clothes using microbes with added genetic instructions to make specific colors! These microbes are a drop-in solution to replace chemical dyes, save water, and brighten up our style with biology!
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