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YES! Online magazine published an article by Paul
Stamets titled
Mushroom Power
in which Mr. Stamets describes his experiments in toxic
landscape reclamation using oyster mushrooms to digest
toxins in the ground and hasten it's re-inclusion in the
web of livingness. This goes to suggest that the
reconstruction of damaged environments may be
straightforward once engaged with ingenuity. (link
to the article)
Once upon a
time in a house on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean a
lady who was either a psychic medium or a florid
schizophrenic once proclaimed before being fully awake for
the day; "you tell [name withheld to protect the
innocent] that the Earth is a living being and is
fully able to heal it's self when the injuring stops... heal
people" This might be taken as a caution about seeking to
heal aspects of planetary distress as only continuing to impose
a limited personal vision of the nature of the planet even if
under the banner of ecology; but, nevertheless, one wants to be helpful
if possible.
The Institute
is moving a collection of good ideas for the quality of
life on and of Earth into actionable and responsible
stewardship grounded in an integrated experience and
understanding of the systems engaged. Primary in this
effort is grasp of the Gaia hypothesis and realization of
it's mechanisms at work in the surrounding environment.
From this grounding we are building agendas working to
recover earth in more than one significant way. As this
material is cultivated it will be published not only on
this page but throughout the website as it also imbues the
Institute's work. |
