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| Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
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Author: Paul Stamets
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Release Date: 2005-10-15
ISBN-10: 1580085792
ISBN-13: 9781580085793
List Price: $35.00
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More mushrooms, less pollution! Yes, you heard right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment. Microscopic cells called "mycelium"the fruit of which are mushrooms recycle carbon, nitrogen, and other essential elements as they break down plant and animal debris in the creation of rich new soil. What fungi expert Paul Stamets has discovered is that mycelium also breaks down hydrocarbons the base structure in many pollutants. So, for instance, when soil contaminated with diesel oil is inoculated with strains of oyster mushroom mycelia, the soil loses its toxicity in just eight weeks. In MYCELIUM RUNNING, Stamets discusses this revolutionary trend in mushroom cultivation and provides tips for choosing the appropriate species of fungi for various environmental purposes.
Thoroughly Impressed - My "Book of the Year"
| Customer Rating: | I found out about Paul Stamets after someone passed me a link to a video over at google where he spoke at a sustainability conference (hint "paul stamets lohas"). By the end of the video, I knew I'd be reading more. I'm ~100 pages in and am in awe with how much good information is in here. Breadth and depth. I'm constantly telling my wife about something I've read.
I'm a list maker and I really like easily accessible information. A good index, lots of charts and lists (though not simply as filler) make this book one that I'm sure I'll reference in the future.
This is a "good book" in the sense that you don't mind telling people "no" if they take an interest and ask to borrow it.
I wish Stamets had political connections or something because he could get a lot of meaningful work accomplished. I'm not saying that he hasn't been productive. In actuality, he seems to be extremely busy with all of his research and experiments. What I'm trying to say is, "imagine what this guy could accomplish with $100 million!"
Since the above wish is unlikely, I'll settle for wishing Stamets a long and healthy life because I'm convinced his contributions are enough to save the world.
Incredible. |
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
| Customer Rating: | In an era in which everything seems to be going wrong, there is a beam of hope for the future. Author Paul Stamets' research, beautiful photographs, and articulated passion for fungi provide a framework for remediation of a significant number of the world's ills. Radiation leaks? Oil Spills? Running out of fossil fuels? Soil weak? Heck, termites invading your home? He's got an answer, and it's edible, to boot.
Fascinating, accessible, and full of easily-applicable strategies, this book can transform your outlook on the future of the world. |
An amazing book
| Customer Rating: | | This is a book that should be on every gardener's bookshelf. You learn that there is far more to building soil than just adding compost. Inoculate the soil with mushrooms and you can harvest food while you improve your soil and everyone's environment. Get this book and don't just read it. Put it into practice and improve the world. |
Mycelium Running
| Customer Rating:  | | This is an extremely easy read - with great examples on how mushrooms grow and how it can be commercialised. If you have an interest in this area, then this is the book to read. Would highly recommend it. |
More than a field guide to fungi
| Customer Rating: | This book provides a wonderful look into the world of fungi and their properties. I bought the book after seeing the author in a video, and the book has fully lived up to my expectations.
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