[permaculture-oceania] Fungi Patent

[STARFLOWER]

Don't know if it's the same person, but I have just been reading a very interesting book called Mycelium Running - How mushrooms can change the world - by Paul Stamets (2005) California, Ten Speed Press. I got a copy at my favourite plant bookshop in Sydney - Floralegium in Glebe.

Paul has had a long time passion for mycelia and is doing extensive mushroom research as detoxifiers of things like pesticides, chemicals, diesel oil as well as their medicinal uses - and is apparently taking out US patents on them.
Well worth a read (despite the patent issues)
Regards
Karen
(Dr Karen Bridgman)
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Darren Doherty 
  To: permaculture-oceania at lists.cat.org.au 
  Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 5:00 AM
  Subject: [permaculture-oceania] Fungi Patent


  G'day, 

  This interesting yet disturbing post just came up from Brook Le Van (www.sustainablesettings.org) on the Ibiblio Permaculture Site. As if we don't have enough to contend with: 
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Scott and all,Hey what do you know about people patenting fungal application processes?  Just a got a call from a fellow who after hearing about what we are doing with the soil/ pasture restoration wants to come out 
from Portland.  He has a non-profit with patent lawyers on his board that are working to liberate the numerous patents on the application processes for applying specific fungal cultures to specific chemical brown fields in  
bioremediation efforts.  So we are being advised to patent this application process to protect it for public use or we all could get sued for using it and or teaching/promoting it!God damn these people and this adolescent culture.
Brook LeVan_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________



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