> What renewables can both give us plastic, pesticides, concrete? Mushrooms! Plastic: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/mushrooms-new-plastic-e

> What renewables can both give us plastic, pesticides, concrete? Mushrooms! Plastic: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/mushrooms-new-plastic-ecovative https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/mushrooms-n... https://daily.jstor.org/company-uses-mushrooms-grows-plastic-alternatives/ https://daily.jstor.org/company-uses-mushrooms-grows-plastic... Probably not for long-lived plastics, but a horrific amount is single-use. And there’s research into using something similar for medical devices, which may mean longer-term is an option; I’m not sure. Pesticides: https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/fungus-based-pesticides-might-be-green-solution-future.htm https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-scienc... Targeting pest species rather than indiscriminate killing. Stamets is also doing successful research into keeping conventional pesticides from killing off bees with mycelium extracts. Concrete: https://interestingengineering.com/future-construction-mushroom-buildings https://interestingengineering.com/future-construction-mushr... Similar to the pesticides, not a drop-in replacement but an alternative technique with some overlap of useful properties. Also we’ve had a few thousand years to experiment with concrete, mychotech is maybe a decade or two old. These aren’t the same renewables that we would use to make energy, but they are renewable alternatives to stuff we use petro or its byproducts for today. And they grow on our waste, reusing more energy than we do now.