Mushrooms

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

Paul Stamets interview 2/12.

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.