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Paul Stamets:
6 ways mushrooms can save the world

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Mycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe: cleaning polluted soil, making insecticides, treating smallpox and even flu viruses.

Paul Stamets
Mycologist
Paul Stamets believes that mushrooms can save our lives, restore our ecosystems and transform other worlds. Full bio
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Paul Stamets
Ten Speed Press
2005

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