Mycoremediation of the Japanese landscape after radioactive fallout: Nuclear Forest Recovery Zone by Paul Stamets

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“By sampling other mushroom-forming fungi for their selective ability to hyper-accumulate radioactivity, we can learn a great deal while helping the ecosystem recover. Not only will some mushroom species hyper-accumulate radioactive compounds, but research has also shown that some mycorrhizal fungi bind and sequester radioactive elements so they remain immobilized for extended periods of time. Surprisingly, we learned from the Chernobyl disaster that many species of melanin-producing fungi have their growth stimulated by radiation.”

 

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Gomphidius glutinosus hyper-accumulates radioactive Cesium 137

Threats to your power and the seven deadly sins according to Carol Bridges

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With the recent sudden deaths of animals around the planet, the general environmental chaos we’re in and the closing in of 2012, many people are thinking in terms of “the last days” or Armageddon. I do not really believe in the classical concept of an Armageddon, but I do sometimes feel as if we are right in the middle of one. And I do think we are heading for a big change – we must change our societies to survive, and I believe we want that change to be towards safer, freer and more loving co-existence.

With all this in mind, I stumbled upon an old, favourite text of mine, which by coincidence yesterday. It is what Carol Bridges writes, in the sincerely enlightening book which comes with her The Medicine Woman Tarot Deck, on a contemporary view on the seven deadly sins under the headline:

“Threats to your power”

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Comment on my posts on the recent demonstrations in London

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I have made these posts below to provide a perspective on this story which is difficult to find in the mass media reports – eyewitness statements claims that the police provoked much of the violence themselves. I find that the video material I have seen from the scene very much tells the same story.

I want to add that I do not like or condone any kind of violence, if its not used as a last resort in a self-defence situation (even as a last resort, the use of violence can be discussed, but that is a whole other issue). I do think that some of the students who were at Parliament Square in London on the 10th of December 2010 really experienced that they did not have any other way out than to use violence. Still, most of them didn’t use violence, not even after being beaten by the police. Many say that the majority of violent acts against humans came from the police, and that the violent acts from students was mainly aimed at trashing government property (some windows, a statue, the car of Prince Charles…).

All in all, I must say that I do understand that young people cannot control themselves after standing in the cold for up to 8 hours without food, water or access to toilettes – being told, they still cannot get out…

Judge for yourselves.