Our friend and fellow NCIIA E-Team grant recipient Eben Bayer has an excellent video up on TED.  Eben and his team at Ecovative have been developing a system for the generation of a moldable and durable material from mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms.  Their process yields everything from packing material to bricks to insulation, the best part of which being that they can composted at the end of their use.

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