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Thomas Jonas Left Plastics for a Fungus That Could Feed Space
A beach encounter led a former packaging executive to a Yellowstone microbe, an old Chicago stockyard and a larger question: how much food can we make with much less?
The Yellowstone Microbe That Wants Your Breakfast Table
A geomicrobiologist scooped a strange fungus out of a Yellowstone hot spring. A decade and half a billion dollars later, it is being sold as cream cheese, yogurt and breakfast patties.
Renewal Mill
Renewal Mill is an Oakland-based next-generation ingredients company that upcycles the fiber- and protein-rich byproducts of food manufacturing - like okara (soymilk pulp), oat milk pulp, corn fines and off-spec green bananas - into premium gluten-free flours and baking mixes. Founded in 2016 by Claire Schlemme and Caroline Cotto, the women-owned benefit corporation sells both direct-to-consumer and as a B2B ingredient supplier, aiming to keep 100% of what we grow feeding people.