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>   1. Paul Stamets on the Oil Spill (Toby Hemenway)
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> We just spent a wonderful week with Paul Stamets at his place in the Gulf
> Islands, and while we were there, the BP Crisis Management Team called to
> get his advice. In a way, that's pretty encouraging. People here were
> wondering what Paul's got to say about the mess, and after the call he put
> together a position paper on the spill and mycoremediation. It's at
>
> http://www.fungi.com/mycotech/petroleum_problem.html
>
>
hey Toby,
thanks for this...
great resource, couple of questions, observations, dont really expect you to
have all the answers, though I think its worth putting it out there

1. I wonder how we could actually use this information to develop a gaia
permaculture response ?
2. how do we organise networks and teams of permaculture activists to use
this knowledge on the ground/in-the-water now?
3. can we develop a faster and tighter network of expertise, i.e. the spill
was weeks ago, could we make responses faster from experts such as Stamets
and youself ? could we develop a network of experts to respond and
anticipate such disasters, events etc and feed this organic geo-engineering
into the policy mix, the activist strategies and techniques ?
4. could we develop a media team that makes video, education, howtos,
implementation kits for such events as the spill ? could we set-up a
fund-raising team to buy the spore, the medium, distribute and train
activists in the field, measure results ?
5. did you discuss genetically engineered fungi, microbes etc ? are any on
that list ?

cheers
-N