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Connecting life on Earth and shooting for the stars

07 Jul '25
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Connecting life on Earth and shooting for the stars
Connecting life on Earth and shooting for the stars

Insights

  • Mycelium-based leather already a $*** billion annual market.
  • All-natural sports shoe unveiled at the Future Fabrics Expo 202***.
  • Biodegradable acoustic panels employed at Glastonbury 202***.
  • NASA now exploring growing mycelium materials in space.
  • The fungi-based materials show promise in providing lightweight, durable, and eco-friendly solutions for both Earth and space.

For billions of years, mycelium has grown underground and served as an ecological connective tissue to all life on earth. A sprawling, infinitely renewable, interlaced web, it threads through soil, breaks down organic matter and provides nutrients to plants and trees.

Indigenous communities across the world have for many centuries handcrafted it into hats, bags and pouches.

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