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Can mushrooms save the world?

Wow. Paul Stamets presented at TED on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world. It’s an 18 minute, 60Mb video, available as are so many TED Talks on iTunes as a podcast. Mycologist Paul Stamets studies the mycelium — and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world. He shows how [...]

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Play pumps get girls to school on time

Courtesy of Guy Kawasaki’s Twitter feed: this 5 minute YouTube video about PlayPumps is a must-see. They install pumps to bring water up from underground in places where the women and girls would normally have to walk some distance every day for water. They aim to install the pumps in schools. Then, and here’s the [...]

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