Pharm Girl

At a disused oil refinery site in Montreal, Canada, willow trees are growing in highly contaminated soil and deep in the roots the fungi are at work cleaning up the mess humans have left behind. The actions of the fungi are being studied by at team from the University in order to find which species are the most effective.

The project in Montreal is headed by Mohamed Hijri, a professor of biological sciences and researcher at the University of Montreal’s Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV) and B. Franz Lang a professor at the university’s Department of Biochemistry.

Their task is to find and cultivate the best micro-organism that can help microscopic mushrooms eat up the oil contaminated soils. They believe it is possible to produce decontamination units that will be able to ‘naturally’ tackle and clean up the most contaminated sites on the planet.

The system that they are using on the research site is simple. The team was able to isolate microscopic mushrooms and bacteria that specialised in ‘eating’ oil and petroleum contamination. These contamination digesting organisms are teamed up with higher plants and used to clean up waste sites.


Willow trees take up degraded ground contaminants.
The test site that Hijri and Lang are working on involves planting willow cuttings in the Spring months. Willow is a fast growing tree and it’s roots quickly dig down and take the micro-organisms with them. As the tree grows the degrading contamination is taken up in the tree body. At the end of the growing season the trees are harvested and burnt. The remain ashes contain all the dangerous heavy metals.

Hajri and Lang estimates that even the most contaminated of sites could be cleaned in just a few cycles. ”In addition, it’s beautiful,” says Hijri pointing to a picture of dense vegetation covering the ground of an old refinery after just three weeks.


Nature cleaning up our most dangerous pollution | Wildlife News

Thoughts?

My first thought is....what will be the fall-out effect on the pollinators...such as bees and butterflies...seeing as though the toxins will be gathered/stored in the leaves/stem.

They always seem to rush forward without knowing...all they need to know~

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Pharm Girl

...which sort?? la qu'elle??

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It is a great journey —
but you must do the walking
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profit

grow fungi and clean the oil spill... now that is awesome.

way more awesome than spraying corexit all over the friggin place.


i am sorry to hear about the willows but dont let it get you down pharm, people are starting to realize the planet is one. everything alive, everything with life is important and we are connected to it as humans. everything is interconnected. fungi taught me that.

bring on the archaic revival, save the trees, grow fungi,

etc etc. thanks for the post.

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Then you know about Paul and his Mushrooms that can save the Planet?

That is such a profound statement...I know the Cosmos hears you...May I use this in my sig.

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.....The Time has Come to 'Walk the Talk'.....~

......A message for ALL from the Deer Tribe...~

It is a great journey —
but you must do the walking
and have the willingness to change
and make the leap into
the next level of human evolution.

Become an inquisitive free thinking
individual that takes
responsibility for your life
and the spiritual accountability to live life to the fullest.

Fuck the Monkeys

Mafoo

watch the whole thing or start at about 8 minutes with the petroleum waste pile.

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