The Future is Fungi Award’s Post

PODCAST ALERT 🎙👇 🍄 "Harnessing Fungi, Building the Future" – lessons in biomimicry, sustainability, and scaling from Mycocycle, Inc.’s founder Joanne Rodriguez, on how fungi can transform waste into valuable materials. What started as a vision to decarbonize the material supply chain with fungi turned into a high-impact journey—scaling from a small lab experiment to an industrial solution that’s replacing plastics and reshaping the built environment. 💡 What’s the opportunity? 🌍 Waste as a Resource: Mycocyle tackles hard-to-recycle materials—think rubber, carpets, and drywall—turning them into high-performance biopolymers that outperform traditional materials. 🔄 Biomimicry in Action: Inspired by fungi’s ability to recycle and regenerate, the company adopts nature’s systems to create truly circular solutions—where nothing is wasted. 🚀 Scaling with Precision: Growing a company isn’t just about tech; it’s about creating systems that mimic nature’s resilience. From incubators and accelerators to working with major brands in outdoor gear and construction, Microcycle’s journey shows what’s possible when innovation meets biology. Next step? Expansion into Europe—and they’re looking for fermentation specialists and partners to help scale the vision globally. 🌱 Curious how fungi could reshape industries? 🍄 Listen to the full story here: https://lnkd.in/dYmMGdjU Spotify: https://lnkd.in/d9j6NwHS Apple Podcast: https://lnkd.in/dXtrKEMS #Fungi #Mycelium #Fungaltechnologies #Biotechnology #Startups #Biomimicry #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #Innovation #NatureBasedSolutions #Fungi Barbara Mitchell