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How Mushrooms Can Save the World

Paul Stamets is an American mycologist and the author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World. He also owns and operates Fungi Perfecti , an online store selling mushroom cultivation kits and supplies.

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By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

Paul Stamets is an American mycologist and the author of

Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

. He also owns and operates

Fungi Perfecti, an online store selling mushroom cultivation kits and supplies. (Evan will continue her conversation with Stamets about

how mushrooms can save the world later this month.)

Paul Stamets discusses how fungus can help save the world

TED.com, 2008

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