GeoParadise Blog

In Paul Stamets book Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms, he discusses interesting uses of mycelium, from eating through to pretty much everything to do with the planet.
Here’s one of our favourite, mycelium does marvellous things with petrocarbon pollution. In Bellingham piles of toxic soil were treated by remediation scientists. A number of treatments were used on different piles; enzyme/chemical, mushroom inoculate, and bacterial treatments, for instance. Four weeks later the black tarps were pulled back and five piles were dead ... but not the Oyster mushrooms. The mushrooms grew happily then, after being exposed, died of old age and began to rot, drawing flies that created larvae. With the maggots came birds, and with the birds, seeds and droppings.

The air inside your home may be as much as 10 times more polluted than the outside air. Today most people will spend as much as 90 percent of their lives indoors.As people spend more time indoors there has been an increase in the number and severity of allergic reactions and other chronic illnesses. So where is all this coming from? Of the hundreds of toxic chemicals found indoors, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) studied three because they were the most commonly found and in greater abundance.
These toxins are formaldehyde, benzene and carbon monoxide.

The development of plastics from plant matter - bioplastics - holds great promise to address many of the sustainability problems and national security concerns generated by the manufacture of plastics from petroleum and other fossil fuels.
We are witnessing everyday the unconditional enthusiasm coming from the manufacturing industry, that has realized that Green sells and is trying to put the green label to every product, from building materials to packaging, leaving the consumers overwhelmed with a whole set of environmentally friendly

Petroleum is a great source of power. It's energy-dense, portable and (relatively) cheap. Remove the carbon and it would be perfect — which is essentially what researchers at Arizona State University (ASU) have been trying to do. Milton Sommerfeld and Qiang Hu have been working on raising algae to turn into a biofuel that would be virtually identical to gasoline.