Friday, July 13th Radio Show

Mushrooms, Insulation, and Fresh Green Entrepreneurs

Today's show is a special one because we are featuring two recent college grads who are taking what was just a great green idea to market. In the cradle-to-cradle industrial model, goods should either be fully biodegradable or reusable, limit waste and curb pollution. The product these young inventors have created embody this mission and might just make them enough money to pay off student loans.

Today's Featured Radio Guests:

Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre - Co Founders of Ecovative Design
EcovativeDesign.com, with a method for bonding insulating material using the mycelia, or roots, of mushrooms. The technique results in a product that is biodegradable and can be produced using less energy than needed for other types of insulation, and without petroleum or chlorofluorocarbons.

Check out more in this The Washington Post article.

Topics Discussed Today:

E2E Materials - a 'clean technology' start-up company in Ithaca, New York that produces petroleum-free, biodegradable composites that are stronger, lighter, and cheaper than composites filling landfills today and are now being used to skateboards and surfboards.

Cradle to Cradle - Materials are perpetually circulated in closed loops and maintaining these closed loops maximizes material value without damaging ecosystems.

-- Margaret