Just the Beginning
Just the Beginning
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Unnatural Resources
28 minutes Posted Feb 21, 2019 at 5:00 am.
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"Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

― Buckminster Fuller"

Meet two designers turning environmental pollution into useful products.

  • Anirudh Sharma and Graviky Labs collect carbon air pollution and turn it into ink for writing, drawing, and printing. They call it Air Ink and envision a future in which local newspapers are printed using a city’s own pollution.
  • Michigan native Ali Rose van Overbeke founded Genusee in response to the Flint water crisis. The company is turning the mountains of plastic water bottles that accumulated as a result into eyeglasses, creating local manufacturing jobs in the process.
  • In our first Solicited Advice segment, artist and author Adam J. Kurtz answers listeners’ questions about their creative lives.

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