These mushroom balls turn your yard into a climate-change-fighting machine
Drop some mycelium spores into your watering can, and the next thing you know, your lawn is your own personal carbon offset.
American lawns account for a lot of green space—by some estimates, 40 million hectares, or 2% of all the land area in the continental U.S.—and while that grass does absorb some carbon dioxide, it’s not as much as other plants. Lawns also require a lot of upkeep, and can end up having a bigger carbon footprint than what they sequester. Now NetZero wants to remove some of the negative externalities of lawn care by making your yard absorb extra carbon, via the power of mycelium, the thread-like feeding structures of fungi.