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03/27/2018 / By Ralph Flores

Sustainable and easy to grow, jack fruit can help provide food independence to poor cultures

The jackfruit is in the middle of a renaissance. In recent years, it’s been hailed as one of the hottest food trends, it’s currently a wildly popular meat substitute, and in the future, it may very well be the answer to the looming food security crisis. While no one really knows where the jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) […]

01/08/2018 / By Zoey Sky

A new kind of magic mushroom: New sustainable material made of mushrooms can provide housing, food security, water filtration

While some people are worried that we might one day run out of building materials, a group of experts has revealed that they have successfully created wood-like blocks out of mushrooms. Architect Chris Maurer and his collaborators at Redhouse Architecture in Cleveland, Ohio, aim for the creation of whole communities using mushroom “wood” and its […]

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