Post by The Futurism Today

For years, the conversation around climate technology has focused heavily on energy, transportation, and electrification. Yet one of the largest contributors to global emissions often receives far less attention: the materials we use to construct buildings. The construction sector is responsible for a significant share of global carbon emissions, and a growing percentage of those emissions come not from operating buildings but from the materials embedded within them. As buildings become more energy efficient, embodied carbon is rapidly becoming one of the industry's most important challenges. This is why companies like Mykor are attracting attention. Instead of trying to make traditional construction materials slightly cleaner, they are exploring an entirely different approach. By combining mycelium, industrial waste streams, and biofabrication techniques, Mykor is developing low-carbon building materials that are grown through biological processes rather than manufactured through energy-intensive industrial systems. What makes this trend particularly interesting is that it reflects a broader shift happening across climate technology. The next generation of industrial innovation may not come solely from better machines or more efficient factories. It may come from learning how to work with biology itself. The most valuable climate technologies of the next decade could be the ones that redesign how products are made from the ground up. Construction materials, chemicals, textiles, packaging, and manufacturing processes are all being reimagined through bio-based systems that have the potential to reduce emissions while creating entirely new industrial categories. https://lnkd.in/gg38qSMm Mykor Valentina Dipietro Isabela Cotecchia Colin Preston Vasiliki Panteli Andy Blount Tom Smallwood Andy Williamson Olivia Page Ines Marques Surakat Kudehinbu Louisa Cilenti Fred Robinson Susannah McClintock Thomas Plein Carmel Rafaeli Laura Sainz Cherry Swayne Ricardo Félix João Silvério Max Frost Leandro de Sousa Moscatelli Oliveira Chris Dominy Annie Ferrari Adriano Simões nithin bopanna Cam Ross #ClimateTech #ConstructionTech #Sustainability #Biotechnology #BuiltEnvironment #GreenConstruction #Innovation #Mycelium #ClimateInnovation #TheFuturismToday