Brooks;
If you have not already done so, I'd urge your team to contact Paul Stamets
of Fungi Perfecti
http://www.fungiperfecti.com/mycotech/farmwaste.html
as he and his associates have been working for some time with effective
bioremediation using fungi. I'd be happy to send you some of the lectures
and interviews he has given over the past couple of years which were
collected and published in a local environmental magazine, issue #130,
mid-dec., 2001
The New Settler Interview.
P.O. Box 702
Mendocino, CA 95460
707 937-5703
Contact me offlist regarding faxing material to you, I like to spread the
good word.
Among efforts he has undertaken are entry in a sort of competition held by
the State of Washington to test various bioremediation techniques on
petrochemical (diesel) contaminated soils from service station underground
tank failures - Stamets' employment of Pleurotus spp. won the contest
hands-down against the likes of Dow-Monsanto and other established firms,
yielding a soil free of contaminants and a fine crop of oyster mushrooms,
also free of petrochemicals.
He has used mycelia as a fungal filter to eliminate the runoff waste from a
small cattle operation which otherwise would pollute the adjacent waters,
commercial shellfish beds. The result? Zero detectable pollutants.
Take care, Malcolm
At 01:48 PM 12/21/02 -0600, you wrote:
<http://www.mycolog.com/fifthtoc.html> I felt that some,
among the list members, might be interested in this---most informative
treatise on fungi. Referring to the section on medical considerations
might prove informative. The pictures are not for the faint-hearted.
<http://www.mycolog.com/fifthtoc.html> We are, at present,
initiating a special study on bioremediation using
<http://www.mycolog.com/fifthtoc.html>lignin-based materials (sawdust,
shredded tree refuse/heavy shrub trash, etc. as the substrate for the
mycellium), for erosion control and soil stabilization. This
investigation looks quite promising from both enviornmentally-friendly
and cost-effectiveness considerations.
<http://www.mycolog.com/fifthtoc.html>
Sincerely, Brooks Bradley.
<http://www.mycolog.com/fifthtoc.html>http://www.mycolog.com/fifthtoc.html
