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Animal-free doesn’t always mean environmentally friendly, but brands like Veja and Stella McCartney are increasingly coming up with new and sustainable vegan fashion materials.

Fungi are a crucial component of our lives, even when we can’t see them. Vast networks of thin, thread-like roots called mycelium – which are crucial to the decomposition process of organic matter – stretch below the surface of every mushroom, and they might be the key to solving some of humanity’s largest problems. Recent innovations have been employing the power of mycelium to address plastic pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and environmental contamination, and mycologists are urgi...

MycoWorks is investing $107 million to build its first full-scale mushroom leather production plant in South Carolina, where it will create 400 new jobs. 

The company touts its Fine Mycelium process as the only mycelium engineered to be made-to-order and made-to-specification.

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Popular fashion brands Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger have partnered with vegan mushroom leather company Ecovative to bring plastic- and animal-free materials to the fashion world.

Beef production is a known driver of deforestation but a new report outlines the links between leather and Amazon destruction.

Mushroom-loving artist MycoLoco records fungal frequencies. His TikTok videos put him on Lizzo, SZA, and Stella and Paul McCartney’s radars.

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