How Mushrooms can Save the World!

There’s a really cool site called Space Collective I’ve been reading.

I stumbled across an article about how some scientists, planting mushrooms in the earth near an oil spill, watched as the earth literally healed itself with the help of the mushrooms!
Just like the earth, our bodies – when fed the way that nature intended – can heal too!
It’s all so wonderful! Why, I’d call it a miracle! However, Paul the mushroom guy calls it “Mycoremediation”…

Here’s an excerpt from spacecollective.org:

Paul Stamets, American mycologist & author, is a passionate believer that mushrooms/funghi, can indeed save the world. One such brilliant way he has demonstrated this is through Mycoremediation, which is a form of bioremediation that can turn soil which has been contaminated by oil, into an “oasis… teeming with life”, in a matter of weeks.

This is yet another example that Nature already contains the most elegant processes & techniques for us to learn from. Aiding in our more complete & natural integration with Gaia. It’s all there for us… and thankfully people like Paul are looking with insatiable curiousity.

And the awesome presentation:

2 Responses to “How Mushrooms can Save the World!”

1. Lea says:

   August 19, 2008 at 4:25 am

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2. Bryan says:

   August 25, 2008 at 12:25 pm

   Wow, i never expected that mushrooms can help in this way..interesting post! looking forward to read more from your blog..