Mushrooms may taste great and help you see in the dark but there's more. They have unique biological properties that can be drawn on to solve a range of challenges facing our species from eliminating harmful packaging to cleaning up toxic waste.

Eben Bayer: are mushrooms the new plastic?

[ted id=971] www.ecovativedesign.com Ecovative images: here Ecovative Design just created a tiny mushroom house that they grew out of their material: www.mushroomtinyhouse.com

Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world

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