"Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
― Buckminster Fuller"

Meet two designers turning environmental pollution into useful products.

• Anirudh Sharma and Graviky Labs collect carbon air pollution and turn it into ink for writing, drawing, and printing. They call it Air Ink and envision a future in which local newspapers are printed using a city’s own pollution.
• Michigan native Ali Rose van Overbeke founded Genusee in response to the Flint water crisis. The company is turning the mountains of plastic water bottles that accumulated as a result into eyeglasses, creating local manufacturing jobs in the process.
• In our first Solicited Advice segment, artist and author Adam J. Kurtz answers listeners’ questions about their creative lives.

Music in this episode

• Jake Armerding
• Frank Locrasto
• Marcus Elliot
• Jeremy Arndt
• Balún

Find a full transcript with photos here.