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[CAN] Paul Stamets workshop at Foxglove Farms on Saltspring Island June 11-12
    #14577831 - 06/08/11 01:16 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Paul Stamets presents mushrooms to save the world
June 3, 2011 - timescolonist.com

Mushrooms could save the world.

It's a bold statement, but one that award-winning mycologist Paul Stamets stands firmly behind. The innovative ecologist will share some of his findings June 11 and 12 in a workshop at Foxglove Farms on Saltspring Island.

While mushrooms are best known for their delicious and sometimes hallucinogenic properties, there's much more to the capped forest-growers than meets the mouth.

Stamets, who has studied the fungi for more than 30 years, says mushrooms can clean up toxic waste and oil spills, provide antidotes to human diseases, initiate rapid habitat restoration and more.

He sees human and envionmental health as intiately linked. "Habitats and humans share immune systems," says Stamets, "and mycelium are the cellular bridges between the two."

This week he's hunting the Gulf Islands for an endangered mushroom that could be used as a powerful defence tool against international pandemics.

Agarikon is the oldest mushroom in the world and it's native to old-growth forests. Swelling out of conifers, hidden on uninhabited islands, the beehive-shaped fungus was known in ancient Greece as the "elixir of long life." Today it shows strong antiE. coli properties.

"We share in common some of the same pathogens that affect mushrooms," says Stamets from Cortes Island. "Mushrooms have evolved to prevent many parasites from killing them."

Stamets takes the tiniest fingernail-sized sample when he finds one, adding it to a genetic bank of research. Twenty-five percent of profits raised at his workshop will be reinvested in research such as this.

As a trailblazer in his field, Stamets has earned many awards, including National Geographic Aventure Magazine's GreenOVator and Argosy Foundation's E-chievement Award. He was named one of the Utne Reader's 50 Visionaries of the Year in 2008.

Stamets has discovered five new species, as well as authored six books on the topic including his latest, Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World and Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms.

He also holds more than a dozen patents on mushroom-related technologies.

One such patent, by far his most revolutionary, he says, is based upon a mushroom that could replace chemical insecticides. "It could revolutionize the way we deal with insects in terms of controlling their migrations, stopping them from eating buildings and preventing mosquitoes from carrying malaria and other diseases," he says. "I've really established my position in history as making a major contribution to science. It's something I'm very proud of."

But the environmental entrepreneur has faced some barriers to advancing his technologies. "The U.S. patent office is very reluctant to give these patents because they're paradigm-shifting," he says.

Stamets, who calls Washington's Olympic Peninsula home, has gained increasing fame after participating in the TED Talk series, which hosts short lectures from experts in varied fields.

"I feel like we're piercing the envelope and bringing fungi, mushrooms and mycelium to the forefront of human consciousness," he says. "These organisms can repair a lot of the damage we've inflicted on nature."

Stamets says attendees at the Foxglove Farms workshop can look forward to an announcement involving a "major affirmation" of his research.

For information on Stamets's workshops at Foxglove Farm, visit www.foxglovefarmbc.ca.


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