Can transformative "weird science" save supply chains?

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?

Episode links:

• 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)