Mushrooms

Mushrooms have amazing potential

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).

UN Manual 65 page pdf, quite thorough.