#mycofiltration

🍄 Découvrez la mycoremédiation, une solution pour nettoyer l'environnement des polluants biologiques, chimiques et des éléments radioactifs.

La mycoremédiation est une solution pour nettoyer l’environnement des microbes pathogènes, des métaux lourds et radioactifs, ainsi que toute sorte de déchets chimiques. L’exposé que je vais vous faire dans cet article n’est pas exhaustif, la mycoremédiation est un très vaste champ d’études qui est encore très récent et il y a encore énormément à découvrir. Dans cet article, nous allons voir : Ce…

“There are an estimated 1.5 million species of fungi, comprising yeasts and molds along with mushroom-producing macrofungi. All these organisms share certain basic traits with animals: They inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, as we do, and they are susceptible to many of the same germs. Like us, they get their energy by consuming other life forms rather than by photosynthesis... 

Mushroom-producing fungi feed animals; animals return the favor by spreading fungal spores.To ward off pathogens, fungi have developed an arsenal of antibacterial and antiviral compounds — a resource that traditional peoples harnessed in the form of mushroom teas and foodstuffs. Alexander Fleming exploited them in more modern fashion when he isolated penicillin from the Penicillium rubens mold in 1929. Fungi can also parasitize and kill insects, including those troublesome to us. For millennia, humans have exploited microfungi (molds and yeasts) to create edibles such as cheese, bread, beer and wine.

But in Western culture, Stamets observes, the powers of macrofungi have been largely ignored, an attitude he refers to as “mycophobia” or “biological racism.” Mushrooms were relegated to the Campbell’s can, or outlawed when they blew too many minds. They were discounted, devalued, shunted aside...

Stamets was obsessed with the possibilities of what he called “mycorestoration,” a nascent field encompassing his own and other researchers’ work in mycofiltration, mycoremediation, mycoforestry and mycopesticides (most of which are terms he coined). He began amassing a genetic library of hundreds of mushroom strains — gathered on hikes through the old-growth forests of the Northwest and on trips to Europe, Asia, South America and Australia — that could be used for environmental as well as medicinal healing...

Divine intervention notwithstanding, progress toward Stamets’ mycotechnological promised land has been slow. His medical research has yet to produce a marketable drug. His mycopesticides are held up in product development. His mycorenewal ideas still haven’t been applied on a large-scale basis.

 ...Stamets, as usual, is optimistic. “I know some of my hypotheses sound rather extraordinary,” he says. “I may be a little weird, but I’d rather be weird and right than normal and wrong.” 

EDIBLE FLOATING WETLAND at New Smyrna Beach High School

The edible floating wetland is designed to take excess fertilizer out of a stormwater retention pond. The reused foam mat is built out of kids play mats. It is planted with aquatic vegetables including water lotus, taro, watercress, shan red rice, arrowroot, cranberry hibiscus, earth almond and water celery. To construct the island, the plants are rolled into coconut coir pads and inserted into plastic pots that fit in the holes in the mat. The coir pads are inoculated with Elm Oyster (Hypsizygus ulmarius), a type of mushroom that increases the growth of plants, and Shaggy Mane (Coprinus comatus), a type of mushroom that can filter pollutants and harmful bacteria out of water. As the plants grow, they metabolize the excess nitrogen and phosphorous in the water and therefore prevent excessive algae growth and hypoxic conditions. As the island matures, the plants will shade out the pink color, which references Christo and Jeanne Claude's Surrounded Islands (1983) and challenges that the question of art is no longer one of aesthetics but the survival of life as we know it on this planet.¹ To completely remove the fertilizers, the plants will be harvested and then the island can be replanted. The design of this island is based off of the Beemat, a floating wetland patented by Beeman's Nursery.