Here's a shocking fact: 11% of all greenhouse gas emissions come from materials in the construction industry. What if you could shift that number? Imagine you could do that with fungi and a mycelial network.

In this episode of Tiny Little Victories, meet concerned citizen and entrepreneur Joanne Rodriguez, CEO and founder of MycoCycle. She is tackling the construction waste problem with fungi. Joanne shares her journey on her discovery and idea of using fungi to break down construction waste to remove toxins from construction waste and transform it into valuable low-carbon, bio-based construction materials. Think about it: roofing material being dumped and just sitting there rotting. Then along comes fungi, which do their natural thing of reducing the toxicity of materials and transforming what they consume through biosorption, bioconversion and biodegradation. Joanne shares why she founded the company, how she never stops learning about what fungi can do and how she believes that a bio-circular economy can change our world.

Follow Joanne at Green Girl Now on LinkedIn.

Watch: Transforming Waste with Fungi on Re:TV

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