Rainforest Destruction:
Understanding the Cross Cutting Issues InvolvedWho else is involved?
-I have posted a few videos, created by Prince Charles for his The Prince’s Rainforests Projects, on this blog. The work he has been doing is quite remarkable, and the organization has been quite successful in attracting experts and leaders within three specific areas: business, non-profit organizations, and the educational community. He has also had the support of eighteen major companies, including Virgin, McDonald’s, KPMG, Barclays, and Deustch Bank, to to try and come up with some innovative answers and “to find a way to make the forests worth more alive than dead.” Please click here to read more information on The Prince’s Rainforests Projects.
-Mycologist Paul Stamets studies mycelium and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world. Cleaning polluted soil, creating new insecticides, treating smallpox and maybe even the flu … in 18 minutes, he doesn’t get all the way through his list, but he has plenty of time to blow your mind.
