How mushrooms clean up the planet (and other fungi powers)

3P_Aldebaranaryan
Published on Feb 5, 2022
They are mostly invisible, essential for life on earth and could be the building blocks of our future. Here's how fungi can clean up our soils from the mess we created - and even house us.

Reporter: Tim Schauenberg
Video editor: Cem Adam Springer
Supervising editor: Joanna Gottschalk

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world â€” and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

#PlanetA #Mushroom #Fungi

Read more:

Short overview what fungi are used for today:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329252830_Economic_importance_of_fungi

All you want to know about fungi:
https://kew.iro.bl.uk/concern/file_sets/b4f234b7-49b4-4e4e-be6f-cb7d5e45123e?locale=en

50 ways we can exploit fungi industrially:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13225-019-00430-9

Very good overview about mushrooms capacities:
https://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Permaculture/Mycelium_Running.pdf

How fungi remediate heavy metals:
https://dormaj.org/index.php/jett/article/view/113/136

Special thanks for providing timelapses and video material goes to the channels â€¯amazingfungi (https://www.youtube.com/user/amazingfungi) and Anotherâ€¯Perspective (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIZpKZH73Xr8udmjGmzp_IA).

0:00 Intro
0:56 The degraders of the world
3:22 Cleaning up organic pollutantsâ€¯
5:38 Combating metals and radioactive matter
8:01 Building with fungi
11:39 Conclusion

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