2024-04-28T06:01:01-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/84774322/mushroom-plastics-initiative-ecovative-wins-2013-buckminster-fuller-challenge Alexander Walter 2013-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 >2022-04-08T20:36:54-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ja/jar1v72eds3e2ziz.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>In the past few weeks, the Buckminster Fuller Institute has been introducing numerous finalist entries for the sixth annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge [...]. Today now, the BFI announced the overall challenge winner: Ecovative, a Green Island, NY-based materials science company that has developed a new class of home-compostable bio-plastics based on living organisms, mushroom mycelia &mdash; a high-performing, environmentally responsible alternative to traditional plastic materials.</p></em><br /><br /><p> The 'mushroom material' inventors, Eben Bayer, Gavin McIntyre, and the <a href="http://www.ecovativedesign.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ecovative</a> Team, will be awarded the $100,000 cash prize at a ceremony at Cooper Union in New York City on November 18, 2013.</p> <p> Previously: <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/84241366/announcing-the-2013-buckminster-fuller-challenge-finalists" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Announcing the 2013 Buckminster Fuller Challenge Finalists</a></p>