Traditional insulating materials are destroying the environment, says expert [Video]

Fungi are nature’s janitors.

This is what Ehab Sayed, Founder and Chief Evolution Officer at biotechnology company, BIOHM told us on this week’s Net Hero Podcast.

‘For a long time, biologists categorised fungi as plants and we didn’t realise what they were.

‘We are finding so much about them and their properties and capabilities, they can control the minds of other organisms. They can completely transform ecosystems from the ground up. They’re nature’s janitors and a source of circularity.

‘Nature has got billions of years on us and on what we can develop and create.

‘Looking at how technologies have evolved in the natural world, how they have learned to adapt to different needs, really gives us insight into the strategies that we can integrate into the products and projects that we are working on to really achieve a holistic solution with what we’re creating.’

Ehab told us that his company, BIOHM, has created a fungi replacement for traditional insulation.

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