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What if we could "grow" clothes from microbes, furniture from living organisms and buildings with exteriors like tree bark? TED Fellow Suzanne Lee shares exciting developments from the field of biofabrication and shows how it could help us replace major sources of waste, like plastic and cement, with sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives.
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Was never this early
Honestly same
Just google “how to grow almost anything” “george church”
Thank you. I have done. Very interesting pages.
Me: understands 1/3 of the title
Me: understands 6% of Ted Talks
Also me: yeah sure I’ll watch this
Achievement unlocked:
Direct resource extraction+
TED CEO was regular at Epstein island.
Where can we get more artists to create ecofriendly homes with those materials. I am amazed and relieved that such things have being discovered. Hopefully I will see some of it in my lifetime. I am a fanatic recycler and will love to be in a house made of those bricks. Thank you for your hard work in research.
Look up myco-composites
Absolutely incredible BTW
Elon Musk’s cat girls might become a reality
Behold the future, rejoice at the micro while we enjoy the macro!
How do I get involved other than consuming the relevant products? Truly amazing innovation
Starting to feel like the future!
I really don’t know about this being the next industrial revolution. This sounds too way out there for me. Lance the skeptic.
She needs a cybertruck to go with that outfit.
I guess this is gonna change the meaning of the phrase….”grow a pair”
Hey how do you like my new Bleather coat its made out of Bacteria…once you get past the smell and the feeling like something is crawling on you its not bad.
Livin’ off he land. If grandpappy did it, I guess I can too. Naw, I’m too lazy and out of shape for that.
That’s some daring attire.
4:06 …and again New Zealand is missing from the map 🙂