Microbes and Stuff
Produced by soil bacteria and used as modern medicine.
What is antibiotics?
A fungi that can be used to make leather.
What are mushrooms?
One of the most polluting industries in the world, with respect to fashion.
What is the textile industry?
Discovered Penicillin.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
The design of materials and products that are created by taking specific plant or animal characteristics to enhance the product.
What is biomimicry?
Field of biology involved in engineering new functions from living systems.
What is synthetic biology?
A process in which cells release energy in the absence of oxygen.
What is fermentation?
For the last century, we've organized ourselves around fossil fuels. This time period is known as the...
What is the Oil Age?
Processing textiles requires huge amounts of this.
What is water?
A vessel or container in which living cells or their products are used to make a product.
What is a bioreactor?
Through fermentation, all peoples and cultures of the world have domesticated microorganisms to make the inedible _____?
What is edible?
A design researcher, and the speaker of this Ted talk.
Who is Natsai Audrey Chieza?
Three colours Streotomyces Coelicolor can produce.
What is blue, red and purple.
This waste is notoriously difficult to recycle.
What is textile waste?
Most of the ecological harm caused by the textile industry occurs at the finishing of this stage.
What is the dyeing stage?