Climate change is the greatest design problem of our time. Mushrooms to the rescue!

Mycelium offers an exciting change to upcycle agricultural waste into a low-cost, sustainable, biodegradable construction material. Even NASA wants to use mycelium on Mars. The world of fungi has attracted a lot of interest and seems to be becoming very fashionable of late. A new exhibition at Somerset House in London, for example, is dedicated to “the remarkable mushroom.” No surprise: We’re being promised that mushrooms may be the key to a sustainable future in fields as diverse as fashi...