Digesting the toxic wounds of civilization, feeding the roots of ecological sanity

More on mycoremediation in the Gulf

Paul Stamets was recently contacted by the BP Crisis Management Team about using mycoremediation in the gulf, and then came up with a great call-out for action, which can be found at:

http://www.fungi.com/mycotech/petroleum_problem.html

We don’t know the effect of salt water, but we could use it to clean up the beaches

Podcast and interview with Frank Aragona on mycoremediation in the gulf

http://c-realmpodcast.podomatic.com/entry/2010-06-02T14_11_59-07_00

Here’s a video by the Texas General Land Office about using microbes for

bioremediation. Its a little outdated, and I suspect its been used by oil companies to continue their path of destruction, but its a good intro and

interesting piece.

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One Response

  1. It has now been proven that salt water has no effect on the process and actually helps inhibit some of the microbe growth.nonbenefitial

    June 7, 2011 at 7:54 pm

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