The Magic of Mushrooms

Thanks to the TED community for bringing this to the worlds attention.

Many of you will know how much I love mushrooms and what they can do for us, this video presentation further deepens my love.

Enjoy these magic mushrooms!!

I watched this film with mixed emotions, in one hand excited at the discovery and on the other despondence that we have done far too much damage to the planet!! It’s sickening to think that even after we have perished our waste will linger on, polluting and poisoning all future life.

However, nature has a wonderful way of dealing with bad tenants and will evolve some polystyrene loving bacterium that will happily munch it’s way through our shite and process it into perfectly formed nature nuggets . Of course we’ll be extinct by then and the planet can get on with it’s business, ruing the day it ever let us in.

Respect and Peace!

@dam

Respect and Peace!

@dam

Eco Warrior…….Why not?

Today I joined the WWF

I’ve been considering this for a little while, but watching the ‘Ross Kemp in the Amazon’ documentaries was ‘the straw’ so to speak.

I’ve been doing some research into Bioremediation and I’m going to contact the WWF and Greenpeace to find out what they know about this interesting field of science.

Interestingly, we have just up the road a mushroom farm, who very shortly will be getting a visit from this newly formed ‘Eco – Warrior’……lol.

The way I see it, if we don’t get involved now, then before long it’ll be TOO late!!!

Children will look at their parents and wonder why we didn’t love them enough to protect their world for their future!!

It appals me to see what we have done to this beautiful planet! There is a very real risk that the planet may become so polluted and toxic; that it cannot actually support human life. Now that I have kids, I understand how important it is to get involved and at least try to be part of the solution and stop being part of the problem!

Respect and Peace!

@dam

Warning!!

Disturbing Images of the human Blight of this Planet!

Deforestation

Gorilla Hunting!

Whaling

Elephant Tusks

Oil Spill

Seal Kills

Desert in the making!

Mining

Japanese river of Blood

Melting ice caps

What are we doing!!!!

Response from Paul Stamets…….Wow!

Following on from my last post, i said i’d emailed Paul and bingo, with the power of the web, he’s only gone and replied within an hour of  me sending it!

You can’t imagine how excited i am by his response!

Adam

Thanks for the email. Not enough of me to do all that is needed. My book Mycelium Running is being used by many for this purpose.

Cheers !

Paul.

Paul Stamets

Ok, so it’s clear that Paul believes it is entirely possible for oil pits to be cleaned up using Mycelium to convert oil in fungal sugars, or hydro-carbons in carbohydrates.

Obviously this is HUGE and i’m now going to do all i can to promote this amazing discovery…………Oh My Word!

Thanks to Paul for this response, I’ve now got a mission and I’ve got some ideas about making this puppy a flyer!

Watch this space.

Respect and Peace!

@dam.

Mushrooms in Ecuador?

After watching ‘Ross Kemp in the Amazon’ last night, which i have to say, was so upsetting, i had a flash of lateral inspiration! Eureka maybe a little early to claim, but you never know.

Ross traveled to the Amazon and showed the world the hideous  ravages of commerce; on the garden of Eden. I don’t for one minute blame these poor South America countries for the state of the Amazon rainforest’s, i blame the western world for the blatant exploitation and disregard for the environment and welfare of the local populations.

Tragedy in paradise!

The first story was filmed in Ecuador, where Texaco cashed in on their abundant oil reserves, bulldozing rain forest and then leaving huge toxic pits of unusable oil and water; apparently acceptable by-products of the crude industry. Crude in more ways than one!

These pits are a major health hazard, which contaminate the water table and therefore poison all life in these areas; a truly obscene legacy if ever there was one. Good work Texaco, you greedy bastards!!

Immediately when i saw this i thought of the Paul Stamets film i posted the other week, you remember the mushroom guy, he may just help save our beautiful planet.

Toxic pits in Ecuador

His experiments with mycelium have shown us that fungi has the ability to breakdown hydrocarbons (oils) and change the into life giving carbohydrates (fungal sugars).

So you see where this is going right, I’ve contacted him, asking his opinion on whether his amazing mushrooms can help Ecuador’s oil pit problem.

Wouldn’t it be amazing if he said yes…..i’ll keep you posted.

Respect and Peace ( except  to Texaco)

@dam.