Fungus is the new punk rock
Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre -- the two founders of local green tech startup Ecovative Design -- were featured on CNN recently as part of the channel's "Young People Who Rock" segment:
Bayer and McIntyre started Ecovative, which grows eco-friendly insulation using mushrooms, based on work they did as students at RPI. During the CNN segment they cited Burt Swersey, one of their Rensselaer professors, for urging them and other classmates to go out and invent things that solve needs, not wants.
The company recently expanded into new space in Green Island.
(Thanks, Jessica!)
Earlier on AOA:
+ Award-winning fungus
+ A (very cool) fungus grows in Troy
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stephen malkmus and david berman?
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