Our Organic Northwest

More TED content!

Mark Bittman, is a columnist for the New York Times (The Minimalist), and keeps a blog of his own. Here he is with a dead simple recipe for baking no-knead bread. And here's a TED talk he gave in May 2008, discussing the history of the American food industry, and how he thinks you might eat better;

Paul Stamets can think of at least 6 ways that mushrooms can save the world

which is well above the national average of 2 or 3 ways. That's because Paul Stamets spends a lot of time working on these things. fungal genome mycelium, a giant fungal network which is vital to the northwest ecosystem.

At 12 minutes into the talk, he mentions an NPR interview concerned with his work using fungi to combat smallpox. It can be found here. Further Stamets-related material can be found via the website of his Olympia-based Fungi Perfecti.

Here's another interesting video discussing Stamets' use of human hair and mycelium in remediating the Cosco Busan oil spill in San Francisco Bay.