Dear Malcolm,
Thank you, warmly, for your offer. We are
quite familiar with the work of Mr. Stamets.....and our principal
investigator is intent on contacting him personally. We are in the
process of combining protocols (and biological agents) developed from
the work of Dr. Oppenheimer and his associates (U.T., Austin)......with
types being developed by Mr. Stamets and associates-----in an effort to
improve over the presently-extant methodologies in general use for
address of the more dangerous toxic invasions/depositions, throughout
the contiguous states of the U.S.
I will, indeed, contact you off-list. I
have some information relating to a surface-type aerator we developed
some years past (1992-1997)-----also used in effectively addressing
fluidic effluent from cattle concentrations.... which you might find of
genuine interest.
My thanks, again. Brooks Bradley.
Malcolm Stebbins wrote:
> 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:
>
>> 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.
>> We are, at present, initiating a special study on
>> bioremediation using
>> 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.
>> Sincerely, Brooks Bradley.
>>
>> http://www.mycolog.com/fifthtoc.html
>
