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6 ways mushrooms can save the world with Paul Stamets on TED
6 ways mushrooms can save the world with Paul Stamets on TED
Mar 19 2011: Fellow TEDster Earthling Teammates
The tragedy in Japan has brought into focus, for me, what we could do to help heal the ecosystem. I suggest a novel mycoremediation strategy: The Nuclear Forest Recovery Zone. This approach would be to utilize the abundant wood debris, chipping it, and placing the chipped wood over the most contaminated landscapes. Thereupon, trees with mycorrhizal mushrooms, native to Japan, would uptake and hyperaccumulate radioactive metals, a phenomenon brought into focus after Chernobyl where one mushroom, Gomphidius glutinosus, concentrated 10,000 x the background, ambient levels of cesium 137.
Here is the url that has a PDF which describes, with references, this approach:
http://coalitionforpositivechange.com/stamets-fallout-mycoremediati...
or you can go to my facebook page for updates:
www.facebook.com/paulstamets
We all must try to help the Earth recover from this global tragedy.
Respectfully,
Paul Stamets
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