mycelium

incorporating coffee grounds into the substrate for mushroom growth has been a common practice in the mushroom cultivation community for small-scale production

I can finally call it "research!"

new materials often demand new hardware systems. [...] we developed a custom extrusion printhead [...] extrusion printhead is easy to assemble, inexpensive yet functional, compatible with existing slicing software, and can be integrated into mainstream 3D printer control boards

🤯 This is what most papers on these miss. These materials have the potential to have a huge impact on small scale, local community solutions, but only if it's done like this! Incredible work.

Open-source biomaterial deposition system design

Ok, now they're just flirting with me

This is exactly an argument Kohei Saito makes in his book Degrowth - even if we know the odds are slim, do we not have a moral imperative to try while we still can?

SUBSCRIBE! We need more textile perspectives for practical sustainability, especially re: aesthetics. I saw your arts and crafts comment and immediately related, this is exactly where American discourse in understanding and appreciation for Art falls apart (especially women in art). I think there's a real opportunity to harness this inherent entanglement in art appreciation and redirect an arts and crafts style that shapes a Micheal's discount tchotchke to be a sustainability focused work of art.

Very late to the party but I'm still working through Anatham by Neal Stephenson. I think it's solarpunk adjacent enough, in that it's hopeful and has a lot of the sustainability ideas in practice - but also showcases a side where things have gone very wrong. I highly recommend it! 🍄