I have a pet dog and he loves the abundance of nature around the place we are currently put up. Yesterday night when we both were out on a walk there was a blackout in the city therefore I couldn’t collect his poop due to lack of sight. Today morning when I went back, I observed how active the soil is, because the area where he had shit was already taken care of by nature. More than 50% of his poop was granulated into soil.

Guys I’m not encouraging anybody to not clear your dog’s poop, please do it, it is a good practice; however why I brought this up is to dive deeper into biomimicry.

When we stay close to nature, we frequently get the opportunity to witness such natural processes, socho na, every day nature is continuously manufacturing and producing something new, yet forests have no landfill and oceans have no waste water.

Since ages humans have been cooking food however have you ever thought about cooking Nature's recipe of making natural products?

Materiom just does that. They provide open source recipes and data on materials made from abundant sources of natural ingredients, like agricultural waste. By making this knowledge open, they wish to accelerate materials development and lower barriers to entry in materials markets around the world.

Alysia Garmulewicz is co-founder and director of Materiom. She is an Associate Professor of the circular economy at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. Her research and entrepreneurial endeavors take place at the intersection of circular economy, open source biomaterials, and digital fabrication, paving the way for truly regenerative and distributive systems.

For her doctoral thesis, she looked at Fab Labs around the world and interviewed Fab Labs leaders to understand where the materials were coming from and what knowledge about materials existed at a local level. She found a large gap in people's access to knowledge about materials. People had expertise and understanding in software and hardware but when it came to materials, they were ordering them on retail platforms.

So then, how do we make distributed manufacturing future connect to supply chain networks that are fully in tune with the local environment?

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