permaculture

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>]

Santa Barbara City College Center for Sustainability &
 Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
presents:
~Mycelium Running~
How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
with Paul Stamets

Saturday, February 13, 2010
Fe Bland Auditorium, Santa Barbara City College West Campus
 7-9:30 pm,  Admission $20 (SBCC students$10)

	 P aul Stamets believes growing mushrooms 
may be the best thing we can do to save the 
environment. A dedicated mycologist for more than 
thirty years, Stamets notes that humans, although 
adept at inventing toxins, are equally inept at 
removing them from our environment.  He believes 
mushrooms can save the world.

	 This mycological rescue of the planet 
can occur because filaments of microscopic cells 
called "mycelium"---of which mushrooms are the 
fruit---recycle carbon, nitrogen and other 
essential elements as they break down plant and 
animal debris.  What Stamets has discovered is 
that the enzymes and acids that mycelium produce 
to decompose this debris, are also superb at 
breaking apart hydrocarbons, the base structure 
common to many pollutants.  Stamets coined the 
word ‘myco-restoration’, to describe engaging 
mycelium to heal habitats and stabilize 
ecosystems. He believes that mycelium are the 
neurological network of nature, and that without 
fungi, all ecosystems would fail.

	 Easy for most to think of mushrooms only 
in terms of edibles like Portabellos or 
Chantrelles, but the part fungi plays in the 
evolution of the planet is mind-boggling. 
Stamets states that when the Earth formed 4.5 
billion years ago and coalesced out of stardust, 
organisms first appeared in the ocean.  The very 
first organisms on land were fungi. In Earth's 
ongoing history were repeated asteroid impacts, 
with loss sometimes of 90% of plant life and 
animal life due to debris dust blotting out the 
sun.  But fungi, without the need for sunlight, 
survived, and so did animals and plants that 
formed relationships with them.

	Paul Stamets has been a mushroom 
enthusiast since the late 1970s, and is the 
founder of Fungi Perfecti (www.fungi.com). He has 
discovered four new species of mushrooms, and 
pioneered countless techniques in the field of 
edible and medicinal mushroom cultivation. He 
received the 1998 "Bioneers Award" from The 
Collective Heritage Institute, and the 1999 
"Founder of a New Northwest Award" from the 
Pacific Rim Association of Resource Conservation 
and Development Councils. In 2008, Paul received 
the National Geographic Adventure Magazine's 
Green-Novator and the Argosy Foundation's 
E-chievement Awards. He was also named one of 
Utne Reader's 
"<http://www.utne.com/2008-11-13/50-Visionaries-Who-Are-Changing-Your-World.aspx>50 
Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" in their 
November–December 2008 issue. He has written six 
books on mushroom cultivation, use and 
identification, his latest book is Mycelium 
Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World. 
He has been a presenter at the prestigious TED 
conference.


The event takes place on Saturday, February 13, 
7-9:30pm at the Fe Bland Forum auditorium, SBCC 
West Campus, 721 Cliff Drive. Admission $20 ($10 
SBCC Students), no reservations, first come 
basis.  The event is sponsored by the SBCC Center 
for Sustainability and the Santa Barbara 
Permaculture Network Non-Profit. For more 
information, (805) 965-0581, ext. 2177; 
msbushman@sbcc.edu.


***TED YouTube: Paul Stamets at TED Conference
  http://www.youtube.com/paulstamets#p/u/3/WuF4s-0-0Gs


ALSO  LOS ANGELES
Sunday February 14th. Mycologist Paul Stamets 
will be our keynote speaker at the LAMS annual 
fair on Details at: www.lamushrooms.org
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
   an educational non-profit since 2000
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
 www.sbpermaculture.org
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good encouragement here, Yarrow.
Yes, I am far less wimpy about it then I used to be.
In fact, I was in chronic fear of cold coming out of Winnipeg, our former
residence.
All I had to do was to look at the weather web site for Winnipeg, and right
away, my health meter would go downwards.
All that fear of cold spread over the whole thing and I was in a sad state
with an incredibly narrow range of comfortable temps.

I'm not there yet on the showers. It's all I can do to turn the water temp.
control to cold at the end.
Still, much improved, and happy to tell the tale.

I will admit, though, that I have, on occasion, turned the temperature up
higher.
And reserve the right to do so!
If it does get much colder outside, it will feel a lot colder inside.  That
was very much my experience back in Winnipeg where I was hard pressed to
keep the temp. at 68 for the winter.   Besides going out of my mind...

I so enjoy it here, and am grateful each time I step outside to the deck
where we keep our compost. It's so wonderful to be able to enjoy fresh air
all year round.  not to mention the favourable walking conditions.  We have
kept our cleats out of respect for the odd day that we might sometime
experience where there are dangerous freezing rain conditions.

I'm definitely better off experiencing a little cold rather than a lot of
heat. Much more adaptable to that. Though if I had to choose between a lot
of heat and Winnipeg, there is no doubt in my mind I'd rather be in Costa
Rica.

Cheers!
FRances

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Subject: Re: [permaculture] Lifestyles of the Voluntarily Heatless

> At 1:57 PM -0800 1/26/10, <fdnokes@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > ....We tell ourselves it's 'just for fun', but we often keep the
> > temperature at
> > 60 F.
> > We do have a little portable heater in the bathroom that we turn on before
> > showering....
>
> I'm in the SF bay area where winter temps are generally in the high
> 50s in the daytime and in the low 40s at night, and generally it's
> comfortable indoors (a fun 60F, more or less). When it gets much
> colder, I've added bubblewrap curtains next to the computer desk to
> cut down on drafts, as well as a small portable heater. I sleep with
> a fleece hat, and often wear a hat and an extra layer of poly fleece
> if sitting indoors, including fleece socks. And you're right, it
> feels colder sitting inside than being active outside, so I often
> take off a layer to go outside.
>
> I've heard of someone in Oregon who claims light bulbs are the most
> efficient form of electric heat, so uses about 8 bulbs (no higher
> than eye level, in floor and table lamps) to heat the room where he
> spends the most time.
>
> I don't heat the bathroom. I feel a lot warmer after a shower if I've
> scrubbed my skin with a washcloth -- it gets the warmth to the
> surface. I often think of the herbalist who said he took showers from
> the hose in his Santa Cruz yard because cold water stimulates the
> immune system. So each morning and evening as I get dressed and
> undressed and the cold air hits my skin, I think, good, I'm
> stimulating my immune system. Haven't tried the combo of cold water
> and cold air...brrr.
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