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How fungi can help create a green construction industry

The world of fungi has attracted a lot of interest and seems to be becoming very fashionable lately. A new exhibition at Somerset House in London, for example, is dedicated to “the remarkable mushroom”.

No surprise: We are being promised that mushrooms may be the key to a sustainable future in fields as diverse as fashion, toxic spill clean ups, mental health and construction. It is in this last field that my own interests lie.

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