How Mushrooms Can Save the World

Date: November 12, 2011

Time: 2-5pm

Place: The Everett Historic Theatre, 2911 Colby Avenue, Everett, WA 98201

The Snohomish County Mycological Society and the Puget Sound Mycological Society are proud to collaborate in bringing Paul Stamets to the Everett Historic Theatre to present " Solutions from the Underground; How Mushrooms can Save the World." He will discuss the evolution of mushrooms in ecosystems and how fungi can help heal environments. As environmental health and human health are inextricably interconnected, fungi offer unique opportunities that capitalize on mycelium's diverse properties. Fungi are the grand molecular dis-assemblers in nature, decomposing plants and animals, creating soils and the food web of life. Forest dwelling mushroom mycelium can achieve the greatest mass of any living organism - this characteristic is a testimonial to the inherent biological power of the fungus.

Paul Stamets has written six mushroom-related books, with his most recent being Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World. Growing Gourmet & Medicinal Mushrooms and The Mushroom Cultivator are used as textbooks around the world by the specialty and medicinal mushroom industries. He is the author of many scholarly papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has written more than twenty patents, started a medicinal and gourmet mushroom business, Fungi Perfecti, LLC, in 1980 (www.fungi.com) and has received several environmental awards.

This event will be at 2:00pm, Saturday Nov. 12th and is open to the public at THE EVERETT HISTORIC THEATER, 2911 Colby Ave, Everett . Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted. For further information, go to www.SCMSfungi.org, then click on "events" or visit www.psms.org, then click on "Resources", then "events".

If you have never heard Paul speak you do not want to miss this event. If you have heard him speak you know that you learn something new and interesting each time that you hear him. He truly is a myco-visionary.