Can transformative "weird science" save supply chains?

The Zero100 Podcast: Digitally Reinventing Supply Chain

Supply chains need to be transformed, not just optimized, to survive the climate crisis. In this episode, Deborah explores the “weird science” behind cutting-edge concepts with Tom Van Aken, CEO of Avantium, a plant-based plastics manufacturer, Dr. Anthony Atala, Director of the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine and a bioengineering pioneer, Eben Bayer, CEO of Ecovative, a company that grows mushrooms as an alternative materials source, Tyler Cole, an electrofuels expert and the host of the Net-Zero Carbon podcast, and Zero100 research science director Colin Gilbert. Could the innovations we’re exploring today completely change how supply chains source materials, manufacture goods, and ship products?

Episode links:

• SynBio Radically Reinvents Supply Chain
• Avantium
• Tom Van Aken
• Avantium Holds First Piling Ceremony for its FDCA Flagship Plant
• Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
• Dr. Anthony Atala
• Growing new organs
• Ecovative
• Eben Bayer
• Premium Leather Producer ECCO Leather Partners With Ecovative to Pursue New Mycelium Materials
• Net-Zero Carbon podcast
• Tyler Cole
• Freight Waves: The Nerve Center of the Global Supply Chain
• Developing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)
• The Paris Agreement
• Ambition gap
• Weird Science (film)
• Weird Science (song)