Lucie Semenec (New Era Bio) shares how microbes can brew fossil-free dyes — scaling colour production that’s fast, eco-friendly, and full of imagination.

She explains it for adults, and then “for an 8-year-old”: little invisible friends making colours, just like in Inside Out.

A short but hopeful conversation about curiosity, science, and why the answers to big problems are often hidden in the smallest places.