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Mycelium Building Materials Could Help Cut Construction Emissions

Mycelium Building Materials Could Help Cut Construction Emissions

What they found

Replacing many building materials with mycelium-based ones could help reach net zero construction emissions by 2060.

Replacing many building materials with mycelium-based ones could help reach net zero construction emissions by 2060.

The number

net zero construction emissions by 2060

How solid is it?

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Not a study

Not a study

Evidence ladder: Lab dish → Animal → Early human → Strong human. Reviews summarize earlier research.

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Shroomer

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The future of sustainable construction

The future of sustainable construction

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Welcome to My Mycelium Pad

Welcome to My Mycelium Pad

Thanks to mycelium, our future homes could be made out of fungi. The best part? Mycelium absorbs sound really, really well. Bioconstruction repurposes a naturally occurring, rapidly renewing resource (in this case, mycelium) into sustainable building materials that reduce our widespread environmental impacts. If we replace many of these materials with mycelium-based methods, there’s a chance we could hit net zero construction emissions by 2060.

Thanks to mycelium, our future homes could be made out of fungi. The best part? Mycelium absorbs sound really, really well. Bioconstruction repurposes a naturally occurring, rapidly renewing resource (in this case, mycelium) into sustainable building materials that reduce our widespread environmental impacts. If we replace many of these materials with mycelium-based methods, there’s a chance we could hit net zero construction emissions by 2060.

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