Scientists Are Growing Sustainable Buildings From Fungi Now
Sustainable buildings from ‘shrooms: Scientists can grow a complex structure from a single, flexible, knitted form containing mycelium, the underground roots of fungi.
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Astrobiologists: Does The Earth Have Consciousness? Are We Hurting It?
One of the really cool things about the movie Avatar (not the Airbender one, but the one with the big blue aliens) is that the moon where the movie happens is alive. There’s a network of plants and animals all over it, and this whole web of live has consciousness, … [continued]
Plant-Based “Meat” Maker Atlast Food Raises $40 Million In Series A Funding Round
The New York-based alternative protein startup Atlast Food has just raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Viking Global Investors. Other investors that joined the round included Aiim Partners, Senator Investment Group, 40 North, Stray Dog Capital, and Footprint Coalition. The investment from Footprint Coalition has been … [continued]
The Fungus Among Us Is A Sustainability Workhorse
The humble fungus might not be so humble after all, as it carves out space in bioremediation and other sustainability fields — and it’s smart, too.
Do You Know What Your Dog Eats? A Look At Wild Earth’s Meat-Free Dog Food…
An interview with Ryan Bethencourt, Wild Earth CEO
The Agriculture Industry Is Responsible For Multidrug Resistance & Resulting Deaths
The dangers of continuing upon a path of agricultural development that promote multidrug resistance are acute.
Cleantech News Roundup: New Formula E Car, Greener Aluminum, Indian Solar, Plastic Pollution, Emissions-Sniffing Drones…
We’ve got stories about emissions-sniffing drones, the new Formula E race car, Volvo’s carbon neutral engine plant, a dual-motor AWD Tesla Model 3, Shell’s investment in solar, lower-carbon aluminum production, Indian solar news, DIY shaving cream, natural hangover remedies, and more in today’s cleantech news roundup.
Can Fungi Biofuels Replace Conventional Jet Fuel?
Originally published on the ECOreport. Can fungi biofuels replace conventional jet fuel? Not yet, but Dr Birgitte K. Ahring, Director of Washington State University’s Bioproduct Sciences and Engineering Laboratory, thinks it may happen someday. Fungi produce a hydrocarbon blend similar to jet fuel. They naturally do many of the complex chemical processes that … [continued]
Mushroom Detectives Find Key to Low-cost Biofuels
Heat-loving fungi could provide a key enzyme for making low cost biofuel, and a team of “mushroom detectives” from the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute think they’ve just nailed their man – er, fungus. In an article published just yesterday in Nature Biotechnology, the team identified two types of fungi that can boost the biofuel refining process along at temperatures up to 75 degrees C.
