Artist Natalie Daise at her studio in Georgetown, South Carolina. Photo by Gavin McIntyre.
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Artist Natalie Daise at her studio in Georgetown, South Carolina. Photo by Gavin McIntyre.
Photos by Gavin McIntyre, from The Wild and the Water by Stephanie Burt, for The Bitter Southerner.
"The lengthening shadow of development across this peninsula highlights a deeper question for the soul of the city: What worth do wild places have in today’s Charleston? And, as environmentalist Christiana Figueres asserts, if in truth we are nature — not just extracting from it or living with it — how do these places that we have not fashioned, or some might say have left fallow, feed us? How do their inherent natures mirror our own and the stories that weave together to be the Charleston so many love?"
The story of Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre, two farm boys turned bio-engineers who are harnessing the magical power of nature to help change the world.
Mushrooms Changing the World
I just came back from Albany, NY. First I just want to say that small city was really cool. It had a lot of history and walking through it you can tell. Everyone there I met were really nice, there is something about small cities always having nice people. The main reason I was there was to help shoot a documentary about these two innovators who are basically changing the future with mushrooms. Eben Bayer, the person in the video who also talked in TEDx, is one of the two innovators. The other Gavin Mcintyre, both founders of Ecovative Design, a new company that is expanding very fast where they grow their products. Basically what they are creating is an alternative way to package products with mycelium, which is biodegradable instead of styrofoam and plastics which pollute the earth. This technology can also be used to replace most foam based materials and even insulate houses. Meeting them both inspired me because these two were engineers, not biologists or scientists, but they read so much books on biology, science and even running a business that they somehow innovated and produced a new eco-friendly product that can change the world. It shows that if you focus on it you will achieve it. I really need to focus as much as these guys have.