Mycelium Running

How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

Paul Stamets

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Ten Speed Press
01 October 2005

Applied ecology; Gardening

"HOW MUSHROOMS CAN HELP SAVE THE WORLD

Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That's right- growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text from mushroom expert Paul Stamets, you'll find out how.

The basic science goes like this- Microscopic cells called ""mycelium""--the fruit of which are mushrooms--recycle carbon, nitrogen, and other essential elements as they break down plant and animal debris in the creation of rich new soil. What Stamets has discovered is that we can capitalize on mycelium's digestive power and target it to decompose toxic wastes and pollutants (mycoremediation), catch and reduce silt from streambeds and pathogens from agricultural watersheds (mycofiltration), control insect populations (mycopesticides), and generally enhance the health of our forests and gardens (mycoforestry and myco-gardening).

In this comprehensive guide, you'll find chapters detailing each of these four exciting branches of what Stamets has coined ""mycorestoration,"" as well as chapters on the medicinal and nutritional properties of mushrooms, inoculation methods, log and stump culture, and species selection for various environmental purposes. Heavily referenced and beautifully illustrated, this book is destined to be a classic reference for bemushroomed generations to come."

By: Paul Stamets
Imprint: Ten Speed Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 189mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 1.015kg
ISBN: 9781580085793
ISBN 10: 1580085792
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 October 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

As a physician and practitioner of integrative medicine, I find this book exciting and optimistic because it suggests new, nonharmful possibilities for solving serious problems that affect our health and the health of our environment. Paul Stamets has come up with those possibilities by observing an area of the natural world most of us have ignored. He has directed his attention to mushrooms and mycelium and has used his unique intelligence and intuition to make discoveries of great practical import. I think you will find it hard not to share the enthusiasm and passion he brings to these pages.<br>--From the foreword by Andrew Weil, MD, author of Eating Well for Optimum Health <br> Stamets is a visionary emissary from the fungus kingdom to our world, and the message he's brought back in this book, about the possibilities fungi hold for healing the environment, will fill you with wonder and hope. <br> --Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire <br> This is the kind ofb