Continuing from last week’s broadcast: The second part of Paul Stamets’ upcoming course at Hollyhock, “Mushrooms Wild & Mysterious.”

The second part of an interview in which Paul Stamets discusses:

The unseen similarities between shamanism and medicine.
70% of medicines derived from nature.
Medicinal uses of fungi, including a fungi that fights tuberculosis and how fungi could help in the fight against influenza.
A medically valuable fungi species on Cortes Island.
How 90% of the nutrients are now gone from the ground.
Deforestation prompted the great migrations to North America. Europe’s Peat bogs were once forests.
Our ecosystem in crises: The extinction rate is accelerating. Can we continue to overpopulate the earth while the ecosystem is disintegrating? Will humanity survive? Mankind has the capacity of destroying the ecosystem.
The importance of eating local food in season.
The Permaculture movement.
Edible mushrooms on Cortes Island.
Medicinal uses of fungi, an applicable species on Cortes Island)
Can we continue to overpopulate the earth while the ecosystem is disintegrating?
Making ethanol out of mycelium
Where to learn more.

Broadcast on Cortes Community Radio, CKTZ, 89.5 FM Audio on Wednesday, Sept 17, 10:00 – 10:30 am.

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