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)