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Ecovative on Fox Small Business...and Time!

Submitted by dave on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 13:25

Watch this great video about former E-team Ecovative Design (and get a glimpse of their new plant), from the Fox Small Business Center.

 

Our favorite student innovation and venture stories of 2009

It's been a great news year for us and our grantees. Here are some of our favorite stories:

Best of 2009 - as selected by national media:

Ecovative Design (RPI)

Grow Solar Ivy (Pratt Institute)

Good Guide (UC-Berkeley)

March Madness of the Mind:

Great green inventions:

Emerging biomedical innovations:

 

 

 

NPR highlights Ecovative Design as one of the year's coolest innovations

Submitted by dave on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 10:50

In his latest look at the year's coolest inventions, NPR's Guy Raz interviews Eben Bayer of Ecovative Design, a 2007 NCIIA E-Team. Listen to the interview or read the transcript... Some key takeways: Greensulate and Ecocradle perform as well as synthetic products, but require a fraction of the energy to produce; Greensulate and Ecocradle are formed from natural materials and processes (so, waste packaging should end up in your compost bin, not a landfill); while you could eat Greensulate, it wouldn't taste good. 

Update: More kudos for Ecovative: 'One to watch' as noted by Popular Science.

 

 

'It's Greensulate' - CSI-NY goes high tech; features Ecovative Design!

Submitted by dave on Fri, 11/20/2009 - 17:02

Product placement at its best. CSI-NY's latest episode has gone high-tech, featuring Ecovative Design's Greensulate as a critical clue, complete with burning test. View it here, fast forward to 25:20 (we think the show should have cast Eben as the lab technician)!

Ecovative Design wins U.S. Department of Energy award

Submitted by dave on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:12

Former E-Team Ecovative Design has won the top prize at the DoE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Clean Energy Venture Awards. Ecovative received the Best Venture award, winning $10,000. The award is the latest in many successes for the former E-Team, which manufactures compostable alternatives to styrofoam and insulation.

 

 

 

Fast Company story: Eco-designs that are reducing waste

Submitted by dave on Mon, 09/21/2009 - 09:04

Check this story from Fast Company about the eco-designs that are 'reimagining the detritus of our daily lives.' The list includes former NCIIA E-Team Ecovative Design and their 'Ecocradle' packaging material.   

 

 

CNN: Young people who rock

Submitted by dave on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 10:10

Each year, CNN profiles a select group of young people who are rocking the world. Former NCIIA E-Team Ecovative Design, who has developed a green replacement for styrofoam and building insulation, was recently featured.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greensulate

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007 - $15,815

Household energy use accounts for one-fifth of the total energy consumed annually in the US. Better insulation would lead to a reduction in energy consumption, but today's most popular forms of insulation have significant drawbacks in the form of health risks, high cost, and large environmental footprints.

This E-Team is developing Greensulate, an environmentally friendly home insulation material. Greensulate is a composite board made up of insulating particles suspended in a matrix of mycelium-growth-stage mushroom cells. This mushroom-based insulation is biodegradable, low cost, produces no pollution in the manufacturing process, and insulates as well as competing products.

Update: the team is now incorporated as Ecovative Design. The company won 500,000 euros at Picnic Green Challenge 2008, the world's premier green ideas conference, in Amsterdam, received SBIR Phase I funding from the EPA, and won the DoE's Renewable Energy Laboratory's Clean Energy Venture Awards. Click here to visit their website.

Postalcode Lottery at it again: €500,000 business plan competition

Submitted by dave on Mon, 07/13/2009 - 08:31

Last year, Venture Well cohort member and NCIIA E-Team grantee Ecovative Design  won €500,000 (about US$700,000) in the PostalCode Lottery Green Challenge. Deadline for submissions for this year is July 31.

Read more about the competition.

'Green' styrofoam? Ecovative Design in the New York Times

Submitted by dave on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 10:44

Former NCIIA E-Team Ecovative Design are making a name for themselves in the green packaging arena. Read more about their green (fungi) replacement for styrofoam at the New York Times.

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