Metamorphungi

A Story of Fungi and Sustainability

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three mushrooms

Evolution is something phenomenal. Us humans created plastic, something the Earth couldn't handle, couldn't break down—so the Earth evolved, as it always has.

long row of fungi, flowers and shrubs

We travel 360 million years forward and here we are now.

short row of mushrooms, flowers and shrubs

Fungi has supported our world in many different occasions, providing us with medicines and foods, richening our vegetation and acting as the communicators and transporters of nutrients and life.

And they continue to help our world grow, as we find their uses in sustainability.

A 0.1% rise in underground carbon storage (through fungal networks) could eliminate carbon equal to 100 million cars' emissions.

Less tilling and crop rotation help these fungul networks grow, regulating carbon and also boosting the nutrients in our crops.

Fungi clean soil; white rot fungi can clear soil of the PCP pesticide, backed by pollutant-cleaning research.

Furthermore, fungi can provide us with truly biodegradable packaging.

Many “biodegradable” packages aren't composted due to plastic contamination, complicating separation.

Fungal packaging, on the other hand, doesn't have that problem. It's easy to make and fully biodegradable.

Fungi can trap, distribute, and regulate carbon; a gas from machines.

Fungi have shaped our world as we know it, and their potential uses are far from exhausted.

small mushroom

another small mushrrom

They've evolved alongside us and may even provide solutions to some of our biggest challenges.

five mushrooms with some shrubs

Humans created plastic, a material the Earth couldn’t break down—the first ever non-organic material. And in less than 100 years, fungi have evolved to break it down.

They might not be incredibly efficient at it yet, not enough so to stand as a solution to our plastic problems, but it gives us a different idea for the future.