How Mushrooms Can Save the World

Way cool and very interesting!

All these years, ALL THESE YEARS... I have ignored Mario's advice...

Paul Stamet is a pretty fun guy.

Versatile little buggers.

p.s . . . .and they look kewl.

as terrance mckenna (should have) told me (while on shrooms) "shrooms are great"

all hail the shroom, baby. all hail the shroom.

There is fungus among us.

There are thousands of undocumented fungi in Australia but our government still allows clear-felling of our old growth native forests for wood-chips. Hell even furniture makers can't get access to quality timber because all A-Grade logs and a majority of B-Grade logs go to wood-chipping (the rest to structural timber). C-Grade logs full of rot are offered to furniture makers. Small saw mills source logs privately and plantation timber for wood-chipping remains more expensive than native timber as our Old Growth Forests are simply open fodder to large timber companies for paper pulp.

Australia has sustainable timber agreements with countries it exports to, but after huge illegally clear-felled areas of forest were discovered and documented, the allocatable area of forest allowed for clear felling was increased to match the amount illegally cleared by government departments charged with protecting these unique forests.

The Australian government allows the breach of international agreements to this very day. It's left to the public to research our flora and fauna, of which much remains undocumented and receives very little scientific attention. Appealing to world wide organisations for help goes mostly ignored, a sad fate for a country described as a Galapagos the size of a continent. I could show people fungi that each particularly only targets certain termites, and many more amazing species with remarkable qualities, but I doubt their is little interest. Unfortunately not nearly enough people care about the very world that sustains us. Wake up people.

One of my all time favorite presentations..... and I had lost the link. Thanks for posting this, Progresshiv!

Shr@_@ms

I heard something about this not long ago...very interesting. Fungi are really a double-edged sword...but then, what isn't?

Mushrooms rulez the cosmos. They have far superior Morels. Tremble in fear mere mortals!

My Apologies but I hate mushrooms with a passion so any intelligent comment would be unproductive!