Ikea, the Swedish home furnishings giant, uses 7,400 truckloads of expanded polystyrene foam a year to package its flatpacks of furniture. The difficult-to-recycle material often ends up in landfills, ...

GREEN ISLAND — The team at the newest business in the village’s industrial corridor are thinking completely outside of the box. In fact, they’re making that box out of fungus. Ecovative Design, which ...

Ecovative Design's new interior design division is feeding an entire new generation of eco-friendly designers in New York state with its mushroom-based building material. Advertisement Article ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eben Bayer has spent the better part of 14 years proving out the power of the humble mushroom as the world's truly functional food ...

Founded in 2007, Ecovative Design, LLC is a materials science company developing a new class of home-compostable plastics based on mycelium, an organism akin to a living polymer. Ecovative’s ...

Ecovative Design, the Troy company that makes furniture and packaging products out of mushrooms, is getting a bump from a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ruling that could bring it more ...

You might already DIY, but do you GIY? New York-based Ecovative Design is already known for creating packaging and even buildings out of mushroom root material, and now they are bringing that ability ...