FungiEco Editorial Team Local tree maintenance produces a steady stream of branches, logs, pruning material and woodchips. With careful sorting and handling, these materials can support community mushroom projects, garden systems, habitat work and longer-term decomposition. Instead of treating all woody material as waste, organisations can view clean local biomass as a resource that moves through a circular … Read more
Hydrocarbon contamination occurs when compounds made primarily of carbon and hydrogen enter soil, sediment, surface water or groundwater. In environmental work, the term often refers to petroleum contamination from crude oil and refined products. Common sources include oil spills, leaking storage tanks and pipelines, gasoline, diesel, kerosene, jet fuel, lubricating oils, used motor oil, refinery … Read more
A lifestyle block can generate a surprising volume of organic material: grass clippings, fallen leaves, pruning material, crop residues, straw, clean woodchips, suitable logs and residues from mushroom growing. Instead of treating all of these materials as waste, it is useful to view them as biological resources that can be sorted, processed and returned to … Read more
Moving from a ready-made mushroom kit to your own bulk substrate is a rewarding next step. Oyster mushrooms are among the most approachable species for home cultivation because they grow vigorously on a range of plant materials, including clean cereal straw. With suitable spawn, careful moisture control and a reasonably clean working method, a simple … Read more
Living fungal biomass and dead or inactivated fungal biomass can both contribute to environmental remediation, but they do so through fundamentally different mechanisms. Living fungi rely on ongoing physiology: metabolism, growth, enzyme production and interactions with surrounding organisms. Dead biomass functions mainly as a nonliving sorbent whose cell-wall chemistry can capture contaminants without requiring biological … Read more
A mushroom enterprise can do more than produce fresh food. It can also convert suitable local biomass into a productive biological material, creating value from streams that might otherwise be burned, left to decompose, or treated as a disposal problem. Agricultural, horticultural and forestry residues can all have a role, provided they are assessed carefully … Read more
TU Delft 3D Prints Living Mycelium That Assembles Its Own Functional Materials MycoStories
this mushroom lamp explores mycelium and luffa as composite biomaterial for lighting design Designboom