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Tiny House, Big City!

This Friday, November 15th, we’re bringing the original Mushroom Tiny House to New York City!

This is an event not to be missed! From 4:30 to 9:30pm, you can stop by outside the IAC Building (555 W 18th St New York, NY 10011 ) and tour Ecovative’s first building grown out of Mushroom® Insulation.

Until then, we’re furiously putting finishing touches on the house for its NYC debut.

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Come See Our Latest Tech at Greenbuild Next Month

For the first time ever, we’ll be sharing the future of Mushroom® Insulation and Myco Board® with the world. Come see these cutting edge materials at the world’s best green building products expo at booth #2205. We will be highlighting several exciting products, still in development, that will be market ready in the next 12-24 months. These cutting-edge sustainable materials include: -Myco Board: formaldehyde-free, tree-free light weight alternative to fiberboard and other core materials. -Mushroom Insulated Sheathing: Add continuous insulation to a retrofit or new construction… without any plastic foam. -Grown-in-place Mushroom Insulation: This has been called "the greenest insulating material". We’re seeking leading edge partners to take it to the next level. -And lots more from the Ecovative labs including Mushroom Insulation, SIPs, acoustic tiles, and more. All the details: Greenbuild Expo Philadelphia Convention Center November 20-22, 2013 See Ecovative at Booth #2205

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Vote for the Mushroom Tiny House in the Smithsonian's 2013 People's Design Award

Ecovative’s Mushroom Tiny House has been anonymously nominated for the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design Awards, which includes public selection for the People’s Design Award. The National Design Awards were conceived by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to honor lasting achievement in American design. The Awards are bestowed in recognition of excellence, innovation, and enhancement of the quality of life. We are honored to be included in the league of other prestigious designs and designers, and we are eager to continue developing Mushroom® Materials as a platform technology to improve the quality of life on Earth. Public voting for the award takes place September 10 – October 11 at smithsonianmag.com/design-awards. You and anyone you know can vote once per day. Ecovative appreciates your vote and your willingness to join us in support of our mission.

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Yestermorrow Grow a Wall Workshop Recap

A few weeks ago we towed the Mushoom Tiny House on its first journey up to the Yestermorrow Design Build School in Vermont for the first annual Tiny House Fair. I wanted to take some time to share some photos and give a bit of a recap. The Tiny House Fair was a blast! It was a perfect shakedown test for the freshly completed Mushroom Tiny House, and I'm happy to report that it made it there and back along bumpy Vermont roads in one piece. I was thrilled by all the positive feedback we got about this radical method to GROW the walls of a house. I left convinced that Mushroom Insulation is a perfect fit for Tiny Houses. It's manageable and affordable for people to do on their own without special equipment. Compared to cellulose or fiberglass, it won't settle or reduce in effectiveness after vibrating down the road. Like spray foam, it insulates, air seals and also glues the whole house together. Unlike plastic foams however, it's all natural, renewable and it's safer in the event of a fire. Mushroom Insulation and Tiny Houses really seem like a perfect match. For me, the highlight of the weekend was teaching a workshop on how to pack walls with Mushroom Insulation. This is the first time this has ever been done outside of Ecovative's R&D facility! Thank you to all the guinea pigs who participated. Great work! Check out all these smiling faces insulating test walls during the hands-on demo:

We hope to teach more of these workshops in the future and keep expanding these walls into a dog house or chicken coop or some sort of teeny tiny house. Thanks to everyone who helped grow the first section!

I had an absolute blast at the first ever Tiny House Fair. Thanks so much to everyone at Yestermorrow and in the Tiny House community for making this event happen. We hope by next year there will be a whole village of Tiny Houses insulated with Mushroom Insulation!

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What's this all about? We made a 3 minute video to explain how the Mushroom Tiny House was grown.

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We've just returned from the Tiny House Fair at the Yestermorrow Design Build School in beautiful Vermont. I think it's safe to say that everyone there was blown away by the Mushroom Tiny House. We printed out enough pre-order forms for everyone who attended our presentations and tours, and nearly ran out. For those of you who couldn't attend, you can now pre-order Mushroom Insulation or a full Tiny House kit today. Click this link to learn more and submit an order. For now, you can email this form back to [email protected]