Food Sustainability in the Future: GMOs

‘Organic & NON-GMO’ This seems to be the new catchphrase of all healthy food purveyors. GMO is an acronym for ‘genetically modified organism’: essentially any living thing that has had its genetic material altered in some way. This includes plants, animals, or even certain strains of bacteria.  While GMOs are widely accepted in medicine, it […]

Mushroom Packaging

Next time you buy something online, it may just arrive in packaging made of… mushrooms? That’s right, as a way to combat the growing landfills and excessive use of fossil fuels, a new packaging solution has been created. Known as Ecocradle, this mushroom-based material is made of fungus roots and residues from farming. It was […]