ASU professor looking to combat climate change with carbon-negative materials

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A passion for climate change drove Charlotte McCurdy to look for a tangible idea that would be vivid and real, for people to understand. MORE ⬇️

“It was really important for me to craft an artifact that lived in this future where we’ve decarbonized everything,” said Charlotte McCurdy, professor of industrial design at Arizona State University.McCurdy says, “Right now, a majority of our plastics are made from petrochemicals,” like petroleum, natural gas and coal, our planet’s fossil fuels.

She decided to dive into the world of fashion. Knowing sustainability was a real challenge for the industry, McCurdy looked to create a carbon-negative material, which lead her to work with algae. After a year of research, failed experiments and prototyping, McCurdy finally had a pattern that worked.

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