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The Mushroom Kingdom.
How bricks made using mushrooms can fight climate change.
Okay, mushroom houses don’t have to look like the one above, but that’s potentially an option if you are into that.
The structures would be built by a substance known as Mycelium, a natural substance from mushrooms that can be used to make eco-friendly bio-bricks.
Exploring its usefulness is the subject of this article and the quest of innovators seeking to strike a decisive blow in the battle against climate change by developing alternatives for how our modern world is built and kept running.
How does it work?
The part of a mushroom that we eat is essentially the fruit of a mushroom the Mycelium is the root. As it grows, it threads around nearby substances, binding and locking everything into place like glue.
To make a Mushroom brick, we take agricultural waste, confine it in a tight space, and infuse it with mushroom spores. From the spores, Mycelium will grow into the organic material, binding the matter into a malleable fire-resistant brick.
That looks like this.
