When two engineering students from the Rensselar Polytechnic Institute came up with the idea to use mushrooms and discarded agricultural byproducts to create a green alternative to Styrofoam insulation and packing materials, there had to have been a lot of skeptics thinking they’d never make a go of it. However, after their creation won the top prize at the PICNIC Green Challenge in Amsterdam and Popular Science’s Invention Award in Read More ...