Instead of trying to lure the same old Big Box stores to Petaluma or Santa Rosa in the (short sighted and mostly incorrect) belief that they will increase the tax base (they really just help destroy the local small-business economy), our leaders should be looking for businesses like this to invigorate our local economic fortunes. Wake up folks! There are SO MANY business opportunities like this that actually help restore the planet and provide employment instead of encouraging wasteful and unsustainable consumption.
Eben Bayer, co-inventor of MycoBond, an organic adhesive that turns agriwaste into a foam-like material for packaging and insulation, reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture and plasma screens.
