Maclean’s interviewed Joe Dahmen, a professor at UBC’s school of architecture and landscape architecture, for a story on furniture made of mushrooms.
Dahmen noted the benefits of the mushroom material, called mycelium biocomposite which could be a replacement for polystyrene.
“We are using massive amounts of polystyrene foam to drive down energy usage in buildings,” says Dahmen. “We are just now becoming aware of the impact of these foams—emissions to air and water produced by the chemicals required to make them.”
