by Ina_Neubert | Sep 26, 2024 | Workshop, Mushrooms
Workshop: Fungi Sprecher:innen Yova Yager | Ukrainian architect, author of a mycelium project www.yovayager.com/ Yulia Byaletsk | CEO S.Lab-Sustainable Laboratory, Ukrainian start-up for sustainable and biodegradable packaging solutions made of mycelium...
by Ina_Neubert | Sep 26, 2024 | Hemp, Workshop
Workshop: Hemp Meeting Agenda: Four presentations, each lasting 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion Speaker Norbert Höpfer Sergiy Kovalenkov Werner Schönthaler Oleksii Brusnitsyn Discussion of the four presentations and consideration of next steps. Brief...
by Ina_Neubert | May 28, 2024 | Bark, renewable building materials, Materials
In the timber industry, tree bark has tended to be regarded as an inferior waste product. Although it contains various useful chemicals, it is used to a lesser extent for mulching in the garden and is sometimes burned to generate energy, but is not used in as many...
by Ina_Neubert | May 28, 2024 | renewable building materials, Materials, Raw wool
Domestic sheep’s wool is too coarse and rough for the textile industry. The infrastructure for washing, combing and spinning wool has disappeared from Europe. The wool we wear is made from Australian, New Zealand or South African sheep’s wool, processed in...
by Ina_Neubert | May 28, 2024 | renewable building materials, Materials, Mushrooms
Biological systems are adaptable, live, breathe and regenerate themselves Building materials such as insulation foam are harmful to the environment and do not rot for hundreds of years Mushrooms can be used for this very function The mushroom bricks are made from the...