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'''Mushrooms''' have amazing potential. See also [http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:Sustainability Sustainability], also [http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:Solid_Waste Solid Waste] and [http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Chemicals Chemicals] | '''Mushrooms''' have amazing potential. See also [http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:Sustainability Sustainability], also [http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Category:Solid_Waste Solid Waste] and [http://www.ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Chemicals Chemicals] | ||
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| + | A group of Yale students, poking around in the jungles of Ecuador, has unearthed a type of [http://grist.org/list/newly-discovered-fungus-eats-plastic/?fb_ref=hv1 fungus that digests otherwise-unkillable plastics]. 2/12 | ||
Revision as of 18:47, 6 February 2012
Mushrooms have amazing potential. See also Sustainability, also Solid Waste and Chemicals
News/Articles
A group of Yale students, poking around in the jungles of Ecuador, has unearthed a type of fungus that digests otherwise-unkillable plastics. 2/12
Video
Are mushrooms the new plastic? (TEDtalk video)
6 ways mushrooms can save the world TEDtalk. Paul Stamets has also designed the LifeBox for planting trees. His video channel
Insulation and packaging — both made from mushrooms. Bayer came up with the idea as a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic in New York and developed it with classmate Gavin McIntyre. Now the two have a company called Ecovative Design (audio and video).
Video discussion, including how to, with Mushroom Mtn SC. Especially interesting is bio-remediation, aka Mycoremediation (see also Appropedia) even breaking down oil, also industrial waste, (and diesel contaminated soil). A collection of technical documents Cambridge 2001.
Two UCB students give up finance and become social entrepreneurs, using coffee waste to grow organic mushrooms (video).
Audio
For the past 30 years, botanist Nicholas Money has studied the microorganisms that most people associate with bad smells, itchy toes, damp basements and rotten food. A renowned fungal researcher at Miami University in Ohio, new book excerpt.
Books
Using plants to clean up chemicals (phytoremediation). See also Mycoremediation: Fungal Bioremediation Harbhajan Singh.
Reports/Studies
UN Manual 65 page pdf, quite thorough.
