Give the People What They Want (and Then Some): The Magic of Overdelivering

Bacterial secretions might dye your future wardrobe, and that’d be an improvement.That’s because textiles usually get their hues from toxic chemicals, and the resulting wastewater — laden with dyes, acids and formaldehyde — destroys rivers, such as those surrounding Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. Wastewater treatment, when it happens, is just one of the energy-intensive (read: carbon-spewi