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Why Procurement needs to care about fungi

Why Procurement needs to care about fungi

Procurement teams are increasingly under pressure to support their companies achieve ambitious sustainability targets. This webinar, developed for the Sustainable Procurement Pledge, outlines how fungi can be leveraged to help companies stay within planetary boundaries. It looks at fungi as a carbon store, alternative to the meat industry, an alternative

Transforming waste with fungi

Transforming waste with fungi

The construction industry is responsible for an estimated 30% of all the waste we produce worldwide, with the United States alone producing 660 million tons of construction and demolition debris each year. Converting this waste into a reusable resource would dramatically reduce the environmental impact of a sector that accounts

How fungi can disrupt the meat industry

How fungi can disrupt the meat industry

CEO and author Paul Shapiro makes the case for creating new kinds of meat experiences by harnessing the power of microscopic fungi to lighten humanity's footprint, and food-print, on the planet. Paul Shapiro is the CEO of The Better Meat Co., the author of the national bestseller Clean

Why mushrooms are starting to replace everything

Why mushrooms are starting to replace everything

Imagine a world where the homes we live in, the clothes we wear, and even the sensors in our electronics weren’t manufactured, but grown. Mycelium, the root structure of fungi, is shaking up everything from sustainable construction to meatless bacon. It’s turning agricultural waste into walls, hemp into

Lessons from fungi on markets and economics

Lessons from fungi on markets and economics

Resource inequality is one of our greatest challenges, but it's not unique to humans. Like us, mycorrhizal fungi that live in plant and tree roots strategically trade, steal and withhold resources, displaying remarkable parallels to humans in their capacity to be opportunistic (and sometimes ruthless) - all in

Are mushrooms the new plastic?

Are mushrooms the new plastic?

Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens and the environment.

How slime mold designed the Tokyo railway system

How slime mold designed the Tokyo railway system

Imagine if a single-celled organism, single handedly, designed the Tokyo Metro System? Well, this actually happened when a group of Japanese researchers at Hokkaido University put a slime mold on a map of Tokyo, to see how it would connect between urban hotspots.