Mushrooms and Hair!!!

If you've been living in a bubble, you should know that there was a big fat oil spill in San Francisco's Bay recently. Well, to cut to the chase, volunteers are using mats made of human hair to soak up the oil. The mats then will be seeded with oyster mushrooms, which will grow on the mats, absorbing the toxic gunk and turning the pile of hair and oil into compost. Isn't that the best news you've ever heard?!

How exciting that this is even possible. How exciting that there's a non-toxic solution to the spill! Rather than spray the water and beaches with oil-absorbent chemicals, which is like using poison to clean up poison, there's this better way of cleaning spills. Oh I'm so rooting for this method to become the standard when cleaning oil spills and for people to figure out other healthy ways of dealing with toxic messes.

Hooray Lisa Gautier, who is leading this effort....you MUST read the article here.

Source: SF Gate.com