Ecovative and Limbraco Join Forces to Transform Mushroom Farming with Cutting-Edge Technology
• The collaboration opens doors to emerging markets in mycelium-based products, offering farmers new avenues for business expansion.• Comprehensive training and support will be provided to farmers, ensuring seamless integration of this technology into their operations. GREEN ISLAND, N.Y., December 7th, 2023 — Today marks a significant milestone as Ecovative, the frontrunner in mycelium-based materials, and […]
Working on the Ground Floor of the Mycelium Materials Revolution
Ecovative has been growing fast over the last year, building the facilities to produce millions of pounds of mycelium a year for everything from food to packaging to high quality textiles for the fashion and apparel industry. That production is overseen by a growing team of enthusiastic specialists like Glenn Edmonds. After studying at Rensselaer […]
Building a Better World
Planet Earth is witnessing the largest wave of building and infrastructure growth in human history. To accommodate the ballooning global population, the equivalent of an entire new New York City of floor space will be constructed monthly through 2060, according to Architecture 2030. As commercial and residential development accelerates, the construction sector can ensure the developed […]
Ecovative European Open Patent Program for Composite Materials
Ecovative Design LLC (“Ecovative”) is a biological science and design company, advancing mycelium technology to transform industries with high quality, Earth-friendly materials. Since its founding in 2007, Ecovative has made it part of its mission to make mycelium materials accessible to everyone. The scientists that make up Ecovative’s Mycelium Foundry are pioneers in mycelium materials […]
Ecovative and Corvidopolis Collaborate to Highlight Mushrooms’ Design Side
Ecovative’s textile designer Katherine Reeder models the new shirt from Ecovative’s collaboration with artist Corvidopolis. We at Ecovative have never hidden our admiration for Buckminster Fuller. The influential designer and systems theorist has inspired us with his view of humans as being profoundly connected to our environment, and the responsibility to properly maintain and operate […]
Surfers and Packaging Experts Team Up To Reduce Single-Use Plastic Pollution
Ecovative is always looking for opportunities to partner with like-minded organizations dedicated to protecting and restoring the natural environment. That’s why we’re so glad to be working with A New Earth Project, contributing Mushroom Packaging to their growing catalog of Earth-friendly materials. It’s part of a wider effort to protect the oceans by preventing single […]
Why We’re Growing the Mycelium Supply Chain
Innovation provides a potentially endless source of new and useful technologies that can help improve conditions on Spaceship Earth. At Ecovative, we are working to move the world towards greater sustainability and circularity, with mycelium materials made with biology to sustain the cycles of nature. But to change the world, our materials first have to […]
Meet the Textile Designer Showing What’s Possible With Mycelium Materials
Mycelium is stepping up as a sustainable material by a range of industries, including fashion and apparel. But it’s also a brand new kind of material, with traits and possibilities that are still being uncovered. That’s the job of Katherine Reeder, Ecovative’s own Textile Design Specialist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkiAfQ_FiC8 Coming from a background of traditional fabrication and […]
In Nature, Diversity Isn’t a Slogan, It’s a Way of Life
Diversity is worth celebrating for many reasons. One of them is that nature is built on diversity. In any ecosystem, diversity translates to resilience, and creates the conditions for biology to evolve and improve. If a forest is threatened by a certain kind of beetle, for example, genetic diversity is how the impacted tree species […]
Empowering Innovators: Celebrating Women in Engineering Day with Ecovative
Celebrating Women in Engineering Day holds immense significance in our quest for diversity and inclusion within the STEM field. By honoring and recognizing the contributions of women engineers, we acknowledge their invaluable impact on technological advancements and problem-solving. It’s crucial to celebrate their achievements to break down gender barriers, inspire future generations of women to […]
Ecovative Raises Over $30 Million, Funding Global Distribution of Planet-Friendly Fashion and Food
The company is increasing production of Forager™ Hides and Foams ahead of new commercial product launches in footwear and apparel. Funds will expand regional availability of subsidiary MyForest Foods popular vegan meat alternative My®Bacon. GREEN ISLAND, N.Y., June 6, 2023 – Ecovative Design LLC, the world’s leading mycelium technology company, today announced the initial closing […]
Let’s Aspire to an Earthshot
Mycelium, Packaging, and Hope for a Plastic Free Planet
FFAD Review — Alexandra Kis-Baraksó
The Forager Fashion and Design (FFAD) program puts Forager’s mycelium materials in the hands of independent designers. For designers, the introduction of a new kind of material is a rare event that creates new possibilities. Forager mycelium hides and foams represent just such a material, made on upcycled plants that would otherwise go to waste, […]
FFAD Fall 2022 — Mary Lempres, Myco.ol
The Forager Fashion and Design (FFAD) program puts Forager’s mycelium materials in the hands of independent designers. For designers, the introduction of a new kind of material is a rare event that creates new possibilities. Forager mycelium hides and foams represent just such a material, made on upcycled plants that would otherwise go to waste, […]
Ecovative’s 2022 — Looking Back at a Pivotal Year
A note from Eben Bayer, Ecovative CEO and Co-founder 2023 is already shaping up to be Ecovative’s biggest ever. But it follows a year full of growth and game changing developments, from major expansions in production scale to high-profile partnerships with world class brands, exciting new innovations in our mycelium technology, and a near doubling […]
