New York streetwear label Public School has collaborated with material scientist Theanne Schiros to create a pair of biofabricated trainers using a leather alternative grown by microbes.
Almost the entire trainer, including the upper, midsole and laces, was produced from a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast (SCOBY), which is a key ingredient in making kombucha tea.
Through fermentation, the SCOBY creates a leather substitute that has up to a 97 per cent lower carbon footprint than synthetic polyurethane (PU) leather, according to Schiros.
The trainers are made from a microbial bio-leather
The material scientist also found that while the bio-leather has a lifespan of several years, it remains backyard compostable and will break down over a couple of months in a domestic compost heap.
EXCLUSIVE: Anti-racist zoom seminars, asked to reflect whether they are a white supremacist and their children told white heads are dangerous places for black people: Parents fury at lessons in wokeness but who are too terrified to speak out
Parents say they ve been overwhelmed by education reformers seeking to impose anti-racist agendas on America s schools The stuff is intense, one mother told DailyMail.com. They told us, The most dangerous place for a black person to live is in a white person s imagination
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high school principal sent parents a survey asking them to reflect where they land on a scale from white supremacists to white abolitionists
Mark Federman, principal of East Side Community High School in New York City, is a man on a rather dubious mission. In a burst of âwokeness,â Federman sent white parents of students in grades 6-12 a handout asking them to âreflectâ on their âwhiteness.â It was accompanied by a color-coordinated graph of â8 White Identities,â ranging from a red zone on the left titled âWhite Supremacistâ to a green zone on the far right labeled âWhite Abolitionist.â
This screed was authored by Barnor Hesse, a Northwestern University professor of African American studies, political science, and sociology. Hesse also teaches a course called âUnsettling Whiteness,â and the professor makes it clear the content of oneâs character takes a distant back seat to the color of oneâs skin â if it matters at all. âThere is a regime of whiteness, and there are action-oriented white identities,â he insists in a statement