There's Fungus Among Us--Mycopermaculture, Mycomimicry, and Mycopsychology

Episode 55 October 04, 2021 00:52:26
There's Fungus Among Us--Mycopermaculture, Mycomimicry, and Mycopsychology
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There's Fungus Among Us--Mycopermaculture, Mycomimicry, and Mycopsychology

Oct 04 2021 | 00:52:26

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Show Notes

Join hosts Ronnie Lipschutz and Brooke Wright for a conversation with Maya Elson, Executive Director of CoREnewal (formerly known as the Amazon MycoRenewal Project).  She is a founding member of the Radical Mycology network, she’s worked on various fungal cultivation and educational projects in Olympia, WA and the San Francisco Bay area. Maya is a teacher, naturalist, mycologist, organizer and lover of the wild, dedicated to enacting effective and just solutions to environmental and social crises by working in collaboration with fungi. CoRenewal is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing education and research in ecosystem restoration, health and healing, and sustainable community dynamics through community development and bioremediation, the nature-based solutions to human caused pollution.

Sustainability Now! is underwritten by the Sustainable Systems Research Foundation.

For further reading:  Zoë Schlanger, "Our Silent Partners," New York Review of Books, October 7, 2021: Review of Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures (Random House, 2021).

For viewing: "Fantastic Fungi," https://fantasticfungi.com/

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