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VIDEO: Mycoremediation: restoring ecosystems through mushrooms

Submitted by R-IMC on Sat, 2019-04-13 09:55

The world faces a multitude of problems ranging from pollution to energy shortages and health deficits. This presentation by Christopher Snyder explored the uses of mushrooms for a practice known as mycoremediation. Through this method, it may become possible to restore the health of our ecosystems and ourselves along with them.

The even happened on March 31, 2019 at the Flying Squirrel Community Space (FSCS) (285 Clarissa St.). The letcure was a part of the FSCS's programming theme of Environment for March and April.

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Christopher Snyder grew up on a hobby farm in Darien New York. While completing a Masters in Bioinformatics at the Rochester Institute of Technology he developed interests in dancing, philosophy, and community organizing. Christopher now lives in downtown Rochester and volunteers with the Flying Squirrel community space.

The FSCS exists to "provide a welcoming space that will cultivate and sustain long lasing relationships between activists, artists, and community members in Rochester so that we may work together to create positive social change."

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Could Mushrooms Help Us Reduce Waste?

Submitted by AlBrundage on Sun, 2019-03-31 21:39

As islands of discarded plastic larger than the entire state of Hawail float about on our oceans, could mushrooms be the solution to eliminating it and possibly proding a source of food and medicine in the process? Some researchers are beginning to think so.  Christopher Snyder of the University of Rochester gives a talk on how Mycoremidiation, as the science is known, might help us clean up our planet.

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ShotSpotter in limine motion from People v. Silvon Simmons (2017)

Submitted by Katherine Higgins, Esq. on Fri, 2017-11-03 05:47

From the first page of ShotSpotter in limine motion from People v. Silvon Simmons (2017):

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that upon the annexed affirmation of Katherine Higgins, Esq., attorney for the defendant, the undersigned will move this Court, at a criminal term thereof, before the Honorable Sam L. Valleriani, Monroe County Court Judge, located at the Hall of Justice, City of Rochester, County of Monroe, on the 23rd day of March, 2017, at 9:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as counsel may be heard, for the following relief: ...

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Remember Remember The 5th of November

Submitted by Michael Israel on Tue, 2016-11-15 17:18

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Members of Anonymous show support to Standing Rock Pipeline protestors. (Photo: Michael Israel)

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Clean Water? a report from Wellsville, NY

Submitted by Elaine Hardman @ www.keylesspiano.blogspot.com on Sun, 2014-09-21 19:04

Original article: http://www.keylesspiano.blogspot.com/2014/09/clean-water.html

 

WELLSVILLE:  Flush a toilet, wash a dish, enjoy your shower and forget what goes down the drain. That’s what many do every day while a crew of 3 waits “downhill” ready to turn our nasty sewage into river-ready water.
            This past week I stood on some sturdy grates looking down on Wellsville’s daily 1.4 million gallons of sewage as it rushed into the Wellsville Sewer Department
             I toured the facility with Joanne Allen and Barry Miller of Concerned Citizens of Allegany County while Michael Smith and Brad Mattison explained the sewage treatment processes that relieves Wellsville’s sewage of some of our daily muck.
 
 


            We started at the headworks, the unit where water from about 2400 users enters the system. This is the place plagued by baby wipes and the occasional diaper. The water passes through a grinder and a screen but things like baby wipes don’t grind well and can block the screen so sometimes someone has to pull out what looks like stiff, white fiber.



            The water that rushed under our feet was raw sewage at its worst but it didn’t smell much. Smith said that’s because there is a lot of water in the system just now. He said that waste water comes from homes, stores and businesses but there is also water that seeps into the system through broken pipes. Pipes, he said, always leak somewhere.
            This water is only domestic sewage. Storm water doesn’t mix in. The Village worked aggressively in the 70s, in response to Nixon’s Clean Water Act, to separate sewage and storm water. At the time there was grant money to upgrade systems and Wellsville took advantage of that money to separate the two water streams.
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Oil Train Week of Action July 6-13, 2014

Submitted by Matt Landon Vancouver Action Network on Fri, 2014-06-20 18:35

Please repost far and wide.

Are explosive Bakken crude oil trains coming through your town?  / Actions you can take now!

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Scott Crow: Reflections on Liberation

Submitted by SusanGalloway on Fri, 2014-06-13 13:33

Scott Crow Reflections on Liberation

 

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Between Light and Shadow: Marcos’ last words

Submitted by reposted from ROARmag.org on Wed, 2014-05-28 21:38

original article: http://roarmag.org/2014/05/subcomandante-galeano-between-light-shadow/

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Here is the English translation of Subcomandante Marcos’ last public statement: “We think it is necessary for one of us to die so that Galeano lives.”

 

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Akwesasne Drummers at State of the State

Submitted by Cris McConkey on Thu, 2014-01-09 23:59

Akwesasne Drummers at State of the State

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State of the State 2014: Ban Fracking Rally in Albany

Submitted by Cris McConkey on Thu, 2014-01-09 23:44

State of the State 2014: Ban Fracking Rally in Albany

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