Posts Tagged ‘mycoremediation’
According to Are mushrooms the solution to the beach closings on Madison’s lakes? a coalition of local non-profit orgnizations aims to employ fungi as part of a plan to clean up the beaches of Lake Wingra in Wisconsin. Christina Cappy, a member of the UW-Madison chapter of Engineers Without Borders and one of the coordinators [...]
Tags: bioremediation, Lake Wingra, mushrooms, mycoremediation
It’s been awhile since I got around to uploading some new YouTube videos to Fungal Visions. I recently took the time to look over the most recent uploads to YouTube that had anything to do with mushrooms, fungi, or mycology. There is always a steady stream of such things. Most of them are not worth [...]
Tags: Berkeley, Biofuels, Chlorophyllum, Fungal Visions, lecture, mushrooms, mycoremediation, video, YouTube
Mushroom photographer Taylor Lockwood has returned from his expedition to Brazil and the Amazon River region. While there he was able to get some great new photographs of interesting mushrooms, including the recently discovered bioluminescent species. He reports that there was quite a bit of of local traffic in the area where these mushrooms are [...]
Tags: Amazon, bioluminescence, Brazil, Mycena, mycoremediation, Pleurotus, Taylor Lockwood
With a name like Spore Liberation Front, it’s hard to tell what this outfit might be up to. A lot of people might wave their hands and say “they’re just a bunch of ‘shroom heads, who think they can change the world.” Well, they would be right about one thing–they are trying to change the [...]
Tags: Cascadia, mycoremediation, radical mycology, Spore Liberation Front
