We publish what we find. Every entry names what the project makes, what it replaces, where it sits, and how far it has got.
Everything is open licensed. If a claim cannot be checked against a source, we do not print it.
The overview piece. What one hundred and seventy-six catalogued projects show about growing a material instead of extracting it, and where the field actually stands.
Read the overviewPortland cement carries about eight percent of all global carbon output. Five firms in the catalogue grow cement instead of burning it: Biomason, Prometheus Materials, Green Basilisk, BioZeroc, and Materrup. Four of the five already sell today at commercial scale.
ReadEcovative grows packaging foam in seven days. Mogu presses mycelium into acoustic panels and flooring. Notpla has replaced more than seven million single-use plastic items with seaweed. None of the three needs a refinery, and all three run at commercial scale today in Europe or in the United States.
ReadTwenty-three entries in the catalogue are living or programmable materials. Self-reproducing bricks at Boulder in Colorado. Photosynthetic paint at Newcastle. Fungal-bacterial bricks that heal themselves in New York. Fourteen of the twenty-three sit in a laboratory, which tells you exactly where the money still has to go.
ReadMondragon holds seventy thousand worker-owners. Emilia-Romagna runs eight thousand cooperatives and a third of its regional product. Preston moved seventy-five million pounds of procurement back into its own city. These are not proposals. They are audited, and most of them are decades old.
ReadJapan spent four million dollars on sixty-two forest therapy sites and now counts millions of visits each year. New Zealand made nature prescriptions free in 2025. Bhutan screens every policy against nine domains of wellbeing. Nineteen programmes of this kind sit in the catalogue, and fifteen of them are now permanent policy.
ReadEach layer feeds the next one. Desalination brine drives osmotic power. Farm waste feeds the bioreactor. Bioreactor residue returns to the soil. Nothing leaves the loop as waste, which is the entire difference from the machine that we run today.
ReadStora Enso has shipped more than a million cubic metres of cross-laminated timber. STEICO is the largest wood fibre insulation producer in Europe. IsoHemp presses five million hempcrete blocks every year. This is not a frontier. It is already an existing industrial supply chain.
ReadZyvex places single atoms into silicon. ATLANT 3D deposits one atomic layer at a time. Feringa in Groningen won a Nobel Prize for his molecular motors. Twelve of these twenty-seven entries are still laboratory work, and that is the honest state of the field right now.
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