Earlier this year, I fell in love with a radio show on Pacifica station KPFA, the Visionary Activist Show.  I’ve been happily amazed by how so many of my favorite subjects and authors get woven together on Caroline Casey‘s show.  I love the mix of mythology and social justice issues.  The day she quoted from both Zora Neale Hurston and Loren Eiseley, I was hooked.  I listen to the podcast when I go for walks, and after obsessively working my way through the archives I am finally caught up.  The guest on last week’s show, Paul Stamets, will be a presenter at the upcoming Bioneers conference.  I had heard of his amazing work with mushrooms (video below) but this was the first time I heard him speak about it.  His research includes cleaning polluted soil, creating new insecticides, and treating smallpox.  Van Jones, the 2008 Ware Lecturer will also be at the Bioneers conference, as will Atema Eclai, Director of Programs at the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee.  Attending the conference is definitely on my list of things to do, when I have a few bucks to spare.

6 ways mushrooms can save the world