Supply chains need to be transformed, not just optimized, to survive the climate crisis. In this episode, Deborah explores the “weird science” behind cutting-edge concepts with Tom Van Aken, CEO of Avantium, a plant-based plastics manufacturer, Dr. Anthony Atala, Director of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine and a bioengineering pioneer, Eben Bayer, CEO of Ecovative, a company that grows mushrooms as an alternative materials source, Tyler Cole, an electrofuels expert and the host of the Net-Zero Carbon podcast, and Zero100 research science director Colin Gilbert. Could the innovations we’re exploring today completely change how supply chains source materials, manufacture goods, and ship products?

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SynBio Radically Reinvents Supply Chain
Avantium
Tom Van Aken
Avantium Holds First Piling Ceremony for its FDCA Flagship Plant
Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Dr. Anthony Atala
Growing new organs
Ecovative
Eben Bayer
Premium Leather Producer ECCO Leather Partners With Ecovative to Pursue New Mycelium Materials
Net-Zero Carbon podcast
Tyler Cole
Freight Waves: The Nerve Center of the Global Supply Chain
Developing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)
The Paris Agreement
Ambition gap
Weird Science (film)
Weird Science (song)

Can transformative "weird science" save supply chains?