[Pil-pc-oceania] Mycellium Running by Paul Stamets

[Robyn Francis]

Hi Tamara

I think you'd really enjoy listening to Paul Stamets presentation at IPC8 -
it received a standing ovation from the 400+ people present.
 you can hear it at
http://www.ipcon.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30

Ciao
Robyn

On 4/1/08 5:33 PM, "tamara griffiths" <scarletwoman at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> i'm not sure if this book has been posted about before, but I have read the
> first quarter of it and I highly recommend it.
> 
> It is the proverbial "42" (hitch hikers guide to the galaxy reference...)
> 
> For example, seedlings can grow in a forest because mycelium transfer sugars
> from big, photosynthesising trees to the small shaded tree!!!!!!!!!!!!! So,
> in a forest garden, we have another niche, a productive tree, fed via
> mycellium from other trees (for example Birch to douglas fir).
> 
> Also, Stamets argues that the value of compounds as possible cures for human
> illness (such as HIV) found in fungi in old growth forests is much greater
> than that of the yield of timber. Perhaps we people that want to save old
> growth forests in tas could argue that the multi, highly beneficial yields
> of a forest INTACT is much move VALUABLE economically that logging - ie,
> speak the language of the capitalists, money.
> 
> Apols to people already arguing this...
> 
> love T
> 
> 
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