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Imagine an underground web of mind-boggling complexity, a bustling cosmopolis beneath your feet. Quadrillions of miles of tiny threads in the soil pulsate with real-time messages, trade vital nutrients, and form life-giving symbiotic partnerships. This is the mysterious realm of fungi. Acclaimed visionary biologists Toby Kiers and Merlin Sheldrake guide us through the intricate wonders of the mycorrhizal fungal networks that make life on Earth possible. This is an episode of Nature's Genius, a Bioneers limited series. Visit the series page to learn more. Featuring Toby Kiers, Ph.D., is the Executive Director and Chief Scientist of SPUN (the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks) and a Professor of Evolutionary Biology at VU, Amsterdam. Merlin Sheldrake, Ph.D., is a biologist and writer with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. He is currently a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, works with the SPUN, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation. Credits Executive Producer: Kenny Ausubel Written by: Cathy Edwards and Kenny Ausubel Produced by: Cathy Edwards Senior Producer: Stephanie Welch Program Engineer and Music Supervisor: Emily Harris Host and Consulting Producer: Neil Harvey Producer: Teo Grossman Graphic Design: Megan Howe Resources Merlin Sheldrake – How Fungi Make our Worlds | Bioneers 2024 Keynote Merlin Sheldrake and Toby Kiers – Mapping, Protecting and Harnessing the Mycorrhizal Networks that Sustain Life on Earth | Bioneers 2024 Panel Discussion Interview with Merlin Sheldrake, Author of Entangled Life Deep Dive: Intelligence in Nature Earthlings: Intelligence in Nature | Bioneers Newsletter SPUN (the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks) Fungi Foundation

Food in the year 2125 with Giuliana Furci, Nephi Craig & Andrea Petrini.This is a very special 100th episode of this podcast. That's not something I ever expected to say. I really had no understanding of what it takes to launch a podcast when I started. I just recorded conversations with friends and colleagues and posted them online. That's still basically what it is, but I think I've become a bit better about how I go about it. I have Juli of course as a co-host to ask intelligent questions and grasp big concepts that I miss. I'm a little more comfortable interviewing people now, and I have a better understanding of who makes a good guest. Some thoughts about food, cooking and life are very different than they were four years ago, while others are the same.Even though it was just a few years ago, the world seems like a very different kind of place than it was in April of 2019. We were still in the midst of the pandemic and everyone was trying to think of what direction the world. What was going to happen to restaurants. To hunger. To food systems. To ecosystems. Everyone had taken a step back and was starting to have a new perspective on things. Very quickly, we all became caught up in the same problems. I think we are still sorting ourselves out from the pandemic, especially as it relates to food. We're still trying to envision what the future looks like. It it's really fucking messy right now.For this episode I wanted to try and think well into the future. Not just the next five, ten or twenty years, which I think are going to be rough, but 100 years away. Can we imagine what that is going to look like? What are we going to be eating? How are we going to be producing this food? How are we going to feed the extra 2 billion people on the planet when the earth's population peaks in 60 years?I asked three people I have known for a very long time to appear on this episode. All three have been past guests. They are extremely different people from different backgrounds and I have deep respect for all of them and the work that they do. I would never have imagined I could get them in a room together. There's Giuliana Furci from Chile, who founded the Fungi Foundation and literally has and is changing the legal framework around fungi in the world. There's Nephi Craig, the chef of Café Gozhóó in Whiteriver, Arizona, whose vision for ancestral food systems extends far beyond kitchen skills. And lastly, Andrea Petrini, the Italian writer and founder of Gelinaz!, who is continually questioning the idea of art as it relates to cooking. Of course there was also with Juliana Duque, my co-host, who brings her own anthropological background to the conversation. They are all some of my favorite people. They are people that continually fight for what they believe in, but they always do it with love. It's something to aspire to and it was an honor to converse with them here.READ MORE AT NEW WORLDER.

Jashid and Prithvi are the founders of Nuvedo, the leading mushroom startup in India. They return to the Mycopreneur Podcast to share updates from their mycopreneurial journey over the last year since I joined them at Shroom Sabha, the first mushroom festival in India. Their recent achievements include appearing on Shark Tank India, being featured in Condé Nast, producing a documentary on fungi in remote Northeastern India in collaboration with the world renowned Fungi Foundation, and much more.Please rate and review wherever you're listening ( : Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People are yearning for reconnection, and for a variety of reasons, ceremonial rituals and psychedelic sacred plants are something we are continually called back to. My guest today, Paola Castelo, is dedicated to helping others reconnect with Mexican heritage by preserving and amplifying Mexican culture through art on her online platform Vuelta Sur. In this episode, Paola opens up about how her passion for preserving Mexican culture originated, the project she is collaborating on with Fungi Foundation to preserve and honor the life and impact of shaman and poet María Sabina.  Paola shares and celebrates the rich stories of Mexican culture by collaborating with museums, contemporary artists, and master artisans to showcase their stories and offer global access to their work. Throughout our conversation, she explains the materials and formats of indigenous art and the role of artists in the ancient world.  Our discussion is focused on the story of María Sabina, a shaman and poet who introduced psilocybin mushrooms to the Western world. Paola breaks down Maria's impact and legacy on future generations and Vuelta Sur's devotion to sharing her lessons and practices. This can be demonstrated through the museum Vuelta Sur is building in collaboration with The Fungi Foundation in Maria's honor, which contains one of the most comprehensive collections of Masoretic records and textiles. She also explains how you can be involved in its creation! Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your favorite podcast platform.  Topics Covered: The ways Vuelta Sur preserves and amplifies Mexican culture through art How Paola reconnected to her Mexican heritage, ancestry, and roots while living in Canada  The significance of Mexican art and culture within the Latin American heritage The materials and formats of indigenous art from looms to pottery to textiles A background on the shaman and poet María Sabina and how she helped launch Mexican heritage into Western culture  Details of the museum that is being built in Maria's honor What future generations can learn from María Sabina's legacy  The resilience of ceremonial rituals and psychedelic sacred plants How you can be involved in the museum  Paola's personal connection to fungi  Resources Mentioned: Use code THERAINBOPODCAST for 15% off at checkout on Rainbo products María Sabina Museum Fundraiser  Guest Info:  Follow Paola on Instagram:@paola_castelo  Follow Vuelta Sur on Instagram: @vueltasur Learn more on Vuelta Sur's website: vueltasur.com  Donate to Vuelta Sur: vueltasur.com/pages/donations  Follow Me: Follow me on Instagram: @tonyapapanikolove  Follow Rainbo on Instagram: @rainbomushrooms  Shop Rainbo: rainbo.com 

Giuliana Furci, Founding Director of the Fungi Foundation, an associate of Harvard University and a National Geographic Explorer speaks to Éanna all about fungi, fascinating and crucially important organisms that are neither plant nor animal.

Winding through questions of philosophy, science, and meaning making, this week's episode brings together vital thoughts on what it means to live an embodied life in an entangled world. Guest Merlin Sheldrake shares the motivations that drew him to study fungi and the complex ways this study has shaped his life and thought. As Merlin shares, “an account of life that doesn't include fungi is an account of a living world  that doesn't exist.” Our relationship with fungi is non-negotiable. Merlin invites listeners to pay attention to what this relationship means and how it shapes not only our lives, but the entanglement of life across the world. With this, Merlin also shares the ways fungal life offers a diversity of expressions and possibilities – offering up the perspective that the diversity and complexity of relationship and expression is what makes life fertile. Across the episode, Merlin and Ayana contemplate the history and meaning of science, and come to see life as a process and a relationship. The meaning we make does not come out of a vacuum, but rather out of relationship. Life itself, in its many forms, is improvisational. Understanding this, we are left with the provocation: How might we speak to the world, rather than about it?   Merlin is a biologist and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, and works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks and the Fungi Foundation. A keen brewer and fermenter, he is fascinated by the relationships that arise between humans and more-than-human organisms. (merlinsheldrake.com)Music by Matthewdavid. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.Support the show

5x15 is thrilled to announce a special event with multi-award-winning writer and biologist Merlin Sheldrake, author of the smash-hit bestseller Entangled Life, in conversation Gaia Vince. The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them. They can change our minds, heal our bodies and even help us avoid environmental disaster; they are metabolic masters, earth-makers and key players in most of nature's processes. In Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake takes us on a mind-altering journey into their spectacular world. Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize, and named a Book of the Year in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, New Statesman and Time, among others, Entangled Life has been translated into twenty languages since its publication. It has now been reissued in a brand new illustrated edition, with over 100 spectacular full-colour images showcasing this wondrous lifeform as never before. Join us in December to hear Merlin Sheldrake live in conversation, revealing how these extraordinary organisms can transform our understanding of our planet and life itself. Speakers Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and a writer. He received a Ph.D. in Tropical Ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He is a research associate of the Vrije University, Amsterdam, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation and the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks. Gaia Vince is an honorary senior research fellow at UCL and a science writer and broadcaster interested in the interplay between humans and the planetary environment. She has held senior editorial posts at Nature and New Scientist, and her writing has featured in newspapers and magazines including the Guardian, The Times and Scientific American. She also writes and presents science programmes for radio and television. Her research takes her across the world: she has visited more than 60 countries, lived in three and is currently based in London. In 2015, she became the first woman to win the Royal Society Science Book of the Year Prize solo for her debut, Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made, and she is also the author of Transcendence: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty and Time. Her latest book is Nomad Century.is an urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change: how it will force us to change where – and how – we live. With thanks for your support for 5x15 online! Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Today on Mushroom Hour we are honored by the presence of Dr. César Marin – Researcher and Academic at the Center for Research and Innovation for Climate Change, School of Sciences, Santo Tomas University in Chile. Among his many accomplished roles, César has been a Postdoc at the Department of Mycorrhizal Symbioses, at the Czech Academy of Sciences, a Researcher at the Center of Applied Ecology and Sustainability of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences of the University of O'Higgins and at the Department of Ecosystems and Environment, of the School of Agronomy and Forestry Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile AND Professor of “Soil, Ecosystems, and Global Change” at the Open University of Recoleta. Dr. Marin is the founder and lead of the South American Mycorrhizal Research Network, he is on the Board of Directors of the International Mycorrhiza Society, one of the initial members/Network laboratory of the Soil Biodiversity Observation Network (SoilBON), and a Research Associate of the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN). He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the International Mycorrhiza Society Newsletter, on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment and of the Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology section, Scientific Adviser of FungiFest, and collaborator on Skype a Scientist.    TOPICS COVERED:   Mycorrhizal Ecology   Underground Nutrient Economy   The Oldest Tree in the World   How Mineral Availability Shapes Fungal Ecologies in Soil   Starting a Research Career in Chile   Emerging Mycology Research in South America   Undiscovered Biodiversity    Living with Political Violence in Colombia   How Science can Diffuse Violence and Contribute to Positive Social Change   South American Mycorrhizal Research Network   Protecting Land Based on Below-Ground Biodiversity   Fungal Allies & Adapting to a Changing Environment    Multilevel Natural Selection Theory   How to Think About the Practice of Science   EPISODE RESOURCES:    Dr. César Marin Website: https://cesar-marin.com/   SPUN: https://www.spun.earth/   SoilBON: https://www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/soilbon   South American Mycorrhizal Research Network: https://southmycorrhizas.org/  "Gran Abuelo" tree in Chile: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-cypress-in-chile-could-soon-break-the-record-for-worlds-oldest-tree   Butyriboletus loyo (fungus): https://www.ffungi.org/blog/butyriboletus-loyo-surviving-extinction   Cortinarius magellanicus (fungus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortinarius_magellanicus   Rhizoglomus cacao (fungus): https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/nova_hedwigia/detail/115/101684/Rhizoglomus_cacao_a_new_species_of_the_Glomeraceae?af=crossref

Today's episode features world-renowned mycologist Giuliana Furci. Giuliana is the founder of the Fungi Foundation, the first NGO in the world solely dedicated to Fungi. This two-part discussion between Giuliana and Dr. Plotkin covers everything from her experiences in the field of mycology, influential mycologists and their work, and even a new species of fungi named after fellow mycologist Paul Stamets. Join us today for part two of this captivating interview.

Today's episode features world-renowned mycologist Giuliana Furci. Giuliana is the founder of the Fungi Foundation, the first NGO in the world solely dedicated to Fungi. This two-part discussion between Giuliana and Dr. Plotkin covers everything from her experiences in the field of mycology, influential mycologists and their work, and even a new species of fungi named after fellow mycologist Paul Stamets. Join us today for part one of this captivating interview.

This episode features a talk given by Merlin Sheldrake titled "Mycological Metaphysics: Fungi and Alfred North Whitehead”. It was presented at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Center for Process Studies. https://ctr4process.org/ Dr. Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and winner of the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize. Merlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, and works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks and the Fungi Foundation. Republished with permission from the Center for Process Studies and Andrew Davis.

From the SAND Archives we present a conversation between SAND co-founder Maurizio Benazzo and biologist and writer Merlin Sheldrake from SAND's Wisdom in Times of Crisis Series (2020). In this talk they discuss Merlin's book Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures. Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist, writer, and speaker with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. He received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN), and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation. Merlin's research ranges from fungal biology, to the history of Amazonian ethnobotany, to the relationship between sound and form in resonant systems. A keen brewer and fermenter, he is fascinated by the relationships that arise between humans and more-than-human organisms. He is a musician and performs on the piano and accordion.

Nathalie Kelley is a well-known Hollywood actress turned regenerative activist. Born of Quechua descent in Peru and raised in Australia by her Indigenous mother and grandmother, Nathalie's roots and passion run deep. We take this powerful episode to dive into our global indigenous past to discuss solutions towards a regenerative future. It's about healing the planet, healing our soil, healing our degenerative societal systems, and ultimately healing our bodies and minds.  As an actress, Nathalie most recently starred in the number one Netflix series, The Baker and The Beauty as well as The Fast and the Furious movie series. Nathalie has a background in Policy and Social Science. She is on the boards of both Kiss the Ground and the Fungi Foundation, and actively uses her platform to elevate indigenous wisdom and technologies as a means of coming back into justice in harmony with our ecosystems.  She strives to tell stories that educate and inspire people, while living a life in deep devotion and service to the entire web of life, advocating for the health of our soil, water, fungi and the forests. Her mission is the preservation of biodiversity, including cultural and micro diversity on the planet. She is a beautiful soul whose passion is inspiring, and as you will learn, an absolute warrior.

Today our guest is the amazing Nathalie Kelley, Hollywood actress, regenerative and indigenous activist, and Kiss the Ground board member. I can't wait to bring this conversation to you but first I want to say a heartfelt thank you to Red Mint for making today's podcast possible. Nat was born in Peru and raised in Australia by her Indigenous mother and grandmother. After working with street children in São Paulo, Brazil and Aborginal inner-city youth in Redfern, Australia, she began her degree in Social Science and Policy at the University of UNSW. Not long after, she started to work as an actress in film and television in the US, with notable roles in shows like Unreal, Dynasty and most recently as the star of ABC's The Baker and the Beauty. Despite this change she remained inwardly mindful of her privilege and responsibility to her Indigenous heritage and people. After the 2019 fires in the Amazon and Australia, Nathalie experienced a shift in consciousness that led her to drastically change not just her lifestyle, but the way she engaged with social media. She worked to become an advocate for Indigenous peoples, regenerative agriculture, the soil and the undervalued but invaluable role of fungi in our ecosystem. Nathalie is now committed to using her storytelling skills to be a voice for the voiceless — creating narratives of hope around the power of nature to regenerate and heal and the integral part humans have to play in this process. Nathalie is on the board of Kiss the Ground and the Fungi Foundation.. She works in deep devotion and service to the entire web of life, advocating in particular for the health of our soil, water, the fungí and forests. Her mission is the preservation of biodiversity, including cultural and myco-diversity on the planet. This is a beautiful conversation full of lots of insights on indigenous wisdom, the resilience and strength of nature, and ultimately our role in supporting both of these things. Follow Nat here: https://www.instagram.com/natkelley/ Learn more about Red Mint below! Redmint weaves together the ancient wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine with modern innovations to create powerful health rituals that form well rounded selfcare routines. They understand the crucial connection between skin health and internal health, which is why they created exceptional skincare and bodycare collections that are infused with potent botanicals that are well known in ancient herbology Traditional Chinese Medicine books. Redmint was founded by Helina Fan, a doctor of TCM, who struggled with health issues for years before turning to a more holistic solution. Through this she discovered the power of Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupuncture, herbal medicine, and skincare topicals. For our lucky listeners in Northern Californian, Redmint has beautiful spas in San Francisco, that are truly urban sanctuaries. Somewhere you can retreat to for a well rounded approach to wellbeing, from facials to acupuncture to bodywork to their herbal bar, where they have all sorts of herbal elixirs. Head to Redmint.com to shop their amazing topical range and to find out more about their San Francisco Wellness Locations! And follow Red Mint here: https://www.instagram.com/redmintwellness/

I'm joined by Giuliana Furci, mycologist, and founder of the Fungi Foundation, the world's first non-governmental organization for the protection of fungi. Giuliana has over 20 years of fungi research experience and was recently awarded the National Geographic Conservation Leadership Award, making her the first mycologist ever to receive the honor. In our conversation, Giuliana reflects on her path to becoming an expert in fungi research and advocacy. She describes some of the intense expeditions that she's been on over the course of her career, as well as how the process for field research has changed since she got started in the late 90s. Giuliana is a champion for fungi recognition within legal conservation and protection frameworks, including leading the Fungi Foundation initiative for the word ‘funga' to be an equivalent term to flora and fauna. Giuliana and I also discuss the life lessons that she's gained from working with fungi, like the beauty of the interdependent nature of living organisms. We talk about the current mainstream collective consciousness of the power of fungi and why they've gone largely unnoticed in the past. Plus, Giuliana shares the expeditions, collaborations, and exciting projects happening at Fungi Foundation. To find out more about Giuliana and the incredible work that she is doing with the Fungi Foundation, check out the links below. Listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your favorite podcast platform. Topics Covered: Challenges that Giuliana has run into as a mycologist in Chile Guiliana's top recommendations for identifying a mushroom Recognizing the integral role that fungi plays in nature and humanity Larger lessons and metaphors that Giuliana has extracted from working with fungi How Giuliana is working to bring free fungi education to children around the world Resources Mentioned: Fungi Education Fantastic Fungi Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrak Guest Info Learn more on the Fungi Foundation website: ffungi.org Learn more about The FFF Initiative and sign the petition: faunaflorafunga.org Follow Guiliana on Instagram: @giulifungi Follow Fungi Foundation on Instagram: @fungifoundation Follow Fungi Foundation on Tik Tok: @fungifoundation_ Follow Me: Follow me on Instagram: @tonyapapanikolove Follow Rainbo on Instagram: @rainbomushrooms Shop Rainbo: rainbo.com

This is not a typical conversation for Feed. We're still talking about food systems, and we're still talking about power, but we're focusing on the more-than-human world, specifically, mushrooms. Giuliana Furci, founder and executive director of the Fungi Foundation, joins us to talk about how fungi are as diverse as the animal and plant kingdom; what role fungi play in sustainable food systems; the contradicting lessons that you can learn from fungi; and what power do fungi have over humans and food systems?For more info and transcript, please visit: https://tabledebates.org/podcast/episode30

With Giuliana Furci & Sophie StrandOh, the fungi! Without them we'd have no plants, no trees, no chocolate, no beer, yogurt, baked bread – all the good things! Yet despite their burgeoning popularity, science has barely scratched the surface of mapping and understanding the hidden world of fungi.The more we learn, the more these ecosystem architects warp our minds of what we think is possible. They digest toxic radiochemical waste. Their mycelium networks with plant roots are the planet's ecological stock exchanges. They stitch together ecosystems, sequester carbon, drive global nutrient cycles and underpin the world's biodiversity. The entire way this kingdom of life sees and lives, its experienced lifeworld, is so entirely different to anything else on this planet. Today we hear from two very distinct voices who speak on behalf of fungi. Giuliana Furci is the founder of the Fungi Foundation, the world's first association that works on behalf of fungi, and Chile's first female mycologist. Giuliana is a Harvard University Associate, Dame of the Order of the Star of Italy, and Co-Chair of the IUCN Fungal Conservation Committee.Sophie Strand is one of the most brilliant rising writers on everything ranging from ecology, myth, mycelium and animism. With Sophie we traverse the terrain of fungal fermentation, compost heaps, deviant animal sex (yes you read that correctly), living with disability, Jesus, and fungal gods. It's a good one.Show Links:Fungi: Lifeworlds Resource PageThe Fungi Foundation Giuliana Furci personal website Video: Let Things RotNYT: Unearthing the Secret Superpowers of FungusSophie Strand WebsiteSophie's Substack Article: The Animate EverythingLook out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.Photo Credit: Steven AxfordMusic: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd & The Rising by Tryad CCPL Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Introducing Giuliana Furci. The woman who has been chosen by the fungi. The mother who is in love with the mould that grows on lemons. The founder and CEO of the Fungi Foundation, a Harvard University Associate, Dame of the Order of the Star of Italy (!), and Co-Chair of the IUCN Fungal Conservation Committee.We travel through the day in the life of a fungi; how moving beyond plant and animal-centric language transforms our perception of the world; what it's like to be on a bone-chilling fungal expedition in Patagonia; what the fungi can teach us about loneliness and rot; the perils around fungal IP, and why you should always go pee behind trees. #thefutureisfungiShow Links:Fungi: Lifeworlds Resource PageThe Fungi Foundation Giuliana Furci personal website Video: Let Things Rot Fungi Foundation: What you see matters NYT: Unearthing the Secret Superpowers of FungusLook out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.Music: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock, Ellie Kidd Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's not just fauna and flora, there's a third, much overlooked kingdom of life – fungi. Fungi are essential for plant and soil health, and therefore our own survival. It's not just the mushrooms that we eat, in this programme we celebrate fungi in all its forms. Fungi already play important roles in our food production and medicine, scientists are now investigating fungi based solutions for environmental pollution and waste disposal. We're joined by biologist Merlin Sheldrake in the United Kingdom, author of ‘Entangled Life', Giuliana Furci, mycologist and founder of the Fungi Foundation, the world's first non-governmental organisation for the protection of fungi, based in Chile and Danielle Stevenson, a mycologist looking at soil toxicity in the United States. (Picture: fungi growing on a log. Credit: BBC) Presented by Ruth Alexander. Produced by Beatrice Pickup.

This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Giuliana Furci originally aired in June of 2021. So often fungi are pitched as being at the forefront of innovation, whether being used to create vegan leather, pharmaceuticals, or being incorporated into various biotechnology products, but this fixation on innovation can obscure our ancestral relationship to fungi and the wisdom they can share with us about decomposition. This week, we slow down to acknowledge the beauty and power of fungal decomposition with guest Giuliana Furci who shares a lesson in divine time, the transformation of energy, and the necessity of decomposition. Take a moment this week to learn about fungi's profound interspecies companionship and the simple reality that the world cannot regenerate itself without fungi. Additionally, to learn even more about these topics, look into supporting Fungi Foundation by joining them for their Fungi Foundation Virtual Speaker Event and Fundraiser on June 26th via their profile and webpage. Giuliana Furci is foundress and CEO of the Fungi Foundation, the first international non-profit dedicated to fungi and founded in Chile. She is also the first female mycologist in Chile. For more information about her work visit www.ffungi.org. Music by Roma Ransom, Rajna Swaminathan, and Julio Kintu. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

I am so excited about today’s conversation! Today’s episode is about exploring the magical world of mushrooms and fungi with Giuliana Furci. Giuliana is foundress and executive director of the Fungi Foundation. She is a Harvard University Associate, Dame of the Order of the Star of Italy, Co-Chair of the IUCN Fungal Conservation Committee, and author of several titles including a series of field guides to Chilean fungi and chapters in publications such as Fantastic Fungi. Giuliana has worked in the non-profit sector for the last 17 years and has held consulting positions in U.S. philanthropic foundations as well as full-time positions in international marine conservation NGOs, and Chilean environmental NGOs. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ How her path from childhood to undergrad to adulthood brought her to the world of fungi ✅ What mushrooms are and why they are called fungi ✅ The dominant types of mushrooms ✅ Why mushrooms are so important to our ecosystem ✅ Why mushrooms, which have so many benefits, have been so understudied and why there is such a renewed interest in mushrooms today ✅ How mushrooms affect us from a health perspective ✅ Her experience with other types of mushrooms that have gained popularity and some of her discoveries in this space It was a pure delight to connect with Guliana and I think you’ll enjoy this conversation tremendously. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

I am so excited about today’s conversation! Today’s episode is about exploring the magical world of mushrooms and fungi with Giuliana Furci. Giuliana is foundress and executive director of the Fungi Foundation. She is a Harvard University Associate, Dame of the Order of the Star of Italy, Co-Chair of the IUCN Fungal Conservation Committee, and author of several titles including a series of field guides to Chilean fungi and chapters in publications such as Fantastic Fungi. Giuliana has worked in the non-profit sector for the last 17 years and has held consulting positions in U.S. philanthropic foundations as well as full-time positions in international marine conservation NGOs, and Chilean environmental NGOs. We talk about the following and so much more: ✅ How her path from childhood to undergrad to adulthood brought her to the world of fungi ✅ What mushrooms are and why they are called fungi ✅ The dominant types of mushrooms ✅ Why mushrooms are so important to our ecosystem ✅ Why mushrooms, which have so many benefits, have been so understudied and why there is such a renewed interest in mushrooms today ✅ How mushrooms affect us from a health perspective ✅ Her experience with other types of mushrooms that have gained popularity and some of her discoveries in this space It was a pure delight to connect with Guliana and I think you’ll enjoy this conversation tremendously. Please tag us and tell us what you loved! You can follow @Gateways_To_Awakening on Instagram or Facebook if you’d like to stay connected.

Giuliana Furci was born in London but her family returned to Chile when she was 15 years old. At 19, she stumbled across a bright orange mushroom which caught her eye while doing field work in the forest. This moment inspired Giuliana to devote her life to addressing the lack of information on fungi. Starting her career as a self-taught amateur, she became the first female field mycologist in Chile and started the Fungi Foundation, the first NGO dedicated to fungi in the world. Under her leadership, Chile became the first country in the world to include the Fungi kingdom in its environmental legislation. https://ffungi.org/eng/ Subscribe to our Newsletter! https://findingfounders.co/subscribe Website: findingfounders.co Follow Sam: https://www.instagram.com/samueldonner/ Follow Finding Founders IG: https://www.instagram.com/findingfounderspodcast/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/finding-founders/support

"Humans have been partnering with fungi for an unknowably long time, no doubt for longer than we've been humans. Whether as foods, eating mushrooms, as medicines, dosing ourselves with moulds and other mushrooms that might help, parasites or others helpers with infection, mushrooms as tinder or ways to carry a spark, this very important thing that humans needed to do for a very long time, and as agents of fermentation, as in yeasts creating alcohol. So humans have partnered with fungi to solve all sorts of problems and so fungi have found themselves enveloped within human societies and cultures for a long time."Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and bestselling author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Merlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Entangled Life won the Wainwright Prize 2021, and has been nominated for a number of other prizes. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, Head of Science and Communications Strategy for the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation.

· www.merlinsheldrake.com
· www.oneplanetpodcast.org
· www.creativeprocess.info

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and bestselling author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Merlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Entangled Life won the Wainwright Prize 2021, and has been nominated for a number of other prizes. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, Head of Science and Communications Strategy for the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation.

· www.merlinsheldrake.com
· www.oneplanetpodcast.org
· www.creativeprocess.info

"Humans have been partnering with fungi for an unknowably long time, no doubt for longer than we've been humans. Whether as foods, eating mushrooms, as medicines, dosing ourselves with moulds and other mushrooms that might help, parasites or others helpers with infection, mushrooms as tinder or ways to carry a spark, this very important thing that humans needed to do for a very long time, and as agents of fermentation, as in yeasts creating alcohol. So humans have partnered with fungi to solve all sorts of problems and so fungi have found themselves enveloped within human societies and cultures for a long time."Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and bestselling author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Merlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Entangled Life won the Wainwright Prize 2021, and has been nominated for a number of other prizes. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, Head of Science and Communications Strategy for the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation.

· www.merlinsheldrake.com
· www.oneplanetpodcast.org
· www.creativeprocess.info

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and bestselling author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Merlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Entangled Life won the Wainwright Prize 2021, and has been nominated for a number of other prizes. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, Head of Science and Communications Strategy for the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation.

· www.merlinsheldrake.com
· www.oneplanetpodcast.org
· www.creativeprocess.info

"Humans have been partnering with fungi for an unknowably long time, no doubt for longer than we've been humans. Whether as foods, eating mushrooms, as medicines, dosing ourselves with moulds and other mushrooms that might help, parasites or others helpers with infection, mushrooms as tinder or ways to carry a spark, this very important thing that humans needed to do for a very long time, and as agents of fermentation, as in yeasts creating alcohol. So humans have partnered with fungi to solve all sorts of problems and so fungi have found themselves enveloped within human societies and cultures for a long time."Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and bestselling author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Merlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Entangled Life won the Wainwright Prize 2021, and has been nominated for a number of other prizes. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, Head of Science and Communications Strategy for the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation.

· www.merlinsheldrake.com
· www.oneplanetpodcast.org
· www.creativeprocess.info

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and bestselling author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Merlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Entangled Life won the Wainwright Prize 2021, and has been nominated for a number of other prizes. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, Head of Science and Communications Strategy for the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation.

· www.merlinsheldrake.com
· www.oneplanetpodcast.org
· www.creativeprocess.info

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and bestselling author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Merlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Entangled Life won the Wainwright Prize 2021, and has been nominated for a number of other prizes. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, Head of Science and Communications Strategy for the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation.

· www.merlinsheldrake.com
· www.oneplanetpodcast.org
· www.creativeprocess.info

"Humans have been partnering with fungi for an unknowably long time, no doubt for longer than we've been humans. Whether as foods, eating mushrooms, as medicines, dosing ourselves with moulds and other mushrooms that might help, parasites or others helpers with infection, mushrooms as tinder or ways to carry a spark, this very important thing that humans needed to do for a very long time, and as agents of fermentation, as in yeasts creating alcohol. So humans have partnered with fungi to solve all sorts of problems and so fungi have found themselves enveloped within human societies and cultures for a long time."Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and bestselling author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Merlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Entangled Life won the Wainwright Prize 2021, and has been nominated for a number of other prizes. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, Head of Science and Communications Strategy for the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation.

· www.merlinsheldrake.com
· www.oneplanetpodcast.org
· www.creativeprocess.info

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and bestselling author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Merlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Entangled Life won the Wainwright Prize 2021, and has been nominated for a number of other prizes. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, Head of Science and Communications Strategy for the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation.

· www.merlinsheldrake.com
· www.oneplanetpodcast.org
· www.creativeprocess.info

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and bestselling author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Merlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Entangled Life won the Wainwright Prize 2021, and has been nominated for a number of other prizes. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, Head of Science and Communications Strategy for the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation.

· www.merlinsheldrake.com
· www.oneplanetpodcast.org
· www.creativeprocess.info

"Humans have been partnering with fungi for an unknowably long time, no doubt for longer than we've been humans. Whether as foods, eating mushrooms, as medicines, dosing ourselves with moulds and other mushrooms that might help, parasites or others helpers with infection, mushrooms as tinder or ways to carry a spark, this very important thing that humans needed to do for a very long time, and as agents of fermentation, as in yeasts creating alcohol. So humans have partnered with fungi to solve all sorts of problems and so fungi have found themselves enveloped within human societies and cultures for a long time."Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and bestselling author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Merlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Entangled Life won the Wainwright Prize 2021, and has been nominated for a number of other prizes. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, Head of Science and Communications Strategy for the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation.

· www.merlinsheldrake.com
· www.oneplanetpodcast.org
· www.creativeprocess.info

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and bestselling author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. Merlin received a Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Entangled Life won the Wainwright Prize 2021, and has been nominated for a number of other prizes. Merlin is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam, Head of Science and Communications Strategy for the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks, and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation.

· www.merlinsheldrake.com
· www.oneplanetpodcast.org
· www.creativeprocess.info

Welcome to the The Voice of Retail , I'm your host Michael LeBlanc, and this podcast is brought to you in conjunction with Retail Council of CanadaIf you are a frequent listener or subscriber to the podcast, you'll know I often ask guests, "what's next?" to wrap the episode.  Well, in this interview with Sarah Owen, Global Futures Directory, SOON Future Studies, "what's next?" IS the episodeAfter reaching Sarah in her new home base in one of my favourite global cities, Lisbon, we talk about the tradecraft of predicting future trends, dive into Sarah's new report, the SOON Future Forecast.  We unpack critical observations and trends that happened, or will happen, both pre and post COVID pandemic and provide a glimpse into the future that retailers need to hear!You can view the immersive SOON Future Forecast by heading to https://soonfutures.com/. Thanks for tuning into today's episode of The Voice of Retail.  Be sure to subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss out on the latest episodes, industry news, and insights. If you enjoyed  this episode please consider leaving a rating and review, as it really helps us grow so that we can continue getting amazing guests on the show.I'm your host Michael LeBlanc, President of M.E. LeBlanc & Company, and if you're looking for more content, or want to chat  follow me on LinkedIn, or visit my website meleblanc.co! Sarah Owen, Global Futures DirectorSarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.With 13 years of experience in future trends, consumer research and communication strategy, she specialises in guiding organisations through strategic foresight, scenario planning and trend analysis.Sarah has previously worked in the USA, Australia and Europe analysing emerging trends and behavioural shifts for WGSN, consulting with Fortune 500 brands such as Intel, Chanel, and L'Oréal, and writing for the likes of Kinfolk, The New York Times, WARC and i-D magazine. As an academic, she has studied Strategic Foresight at the University of Houston and holds a master's degree in Sociology from ISCTE in Portugal.She has presented at global events including Cannes Lions, Pause Fest, FUTR Summit and World Retail Congress, and has been quoted as an expert in The Financial Times, CNN, Vogue, Bloomberg and The Guardian.When she's not searching for signals, she practices Kundalini yoga and volunteers at the Fungi Foundation as their Communications Director.Michael LeBlanc  is the Founder & President of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc and a Senior Advisor to Retail Council of Canada as part of his advisory and consulting practice.   He brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience, and has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career.  Michael is the producer and host of a network of leading podcasts including Canada's top retail industry podcast,       The Voice of Retail, plus        Global E-Commerce Tech Talks  and       The Food Professor  with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois and the all new Conversations with CommerceNext podcast.  Last but not least, check out my new YouTube cooking show, Last Request Barbecue!You can learn more about Michael       here  or on       LinkedIn.  Michael LeBlanc  is the Founder & President of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc and a Senior Advisor to Retail Council of Canada as part of his advisory and consulting practice.   He brings 25+ years of brand/retail/marketing & eCommerce leadership experience, and has been on the front lines of retail industry change for his entire career.  Michael is the producer and host of a network of leading podcasts including Canada's top retail industry podcast,       The Voice of Retail, plus        Global E-Commerce Tech Talks  and       The Food Professor  with Dr. Sylvain Charlebois and the all new Conversations with CommerceNext podcast.  Last but not least, check out my new YouTube cooking show, Last Request Barbecue!You can learn more about Michael       here  or on       LinkedIn. 

Today we step into an alternate, healing dimension: into the realm of the Fungi.    We are deeply honored to welcome Giuliana Furci, Foundress and CEO of the Fungi Foundation to SOUNDFOOD.  Giuliana is the first female field mycologist in Chile, a Harvard University Associate, Dame of the Order of the Star of Italy, Co-Chair of the IUCN Fungal Conservation Committee, lecturer, author, mother, and a true fauna for Funga. Under her leadership, Chile became the first country in the world to include the Fungi Kingdom in its environmental legislation, thus allowing Chilean funga to be included in the study and evaluation of environmental impacts throughout the country.  Giuliana's dedication to research and cultivating awareness around mycology is grounding and activating. She shares why it is crucial to include fungi in our entire framework; beginning with our educational and legal systems; while simultaneously  recognizing the ancestral significance of how fungi (and yeast) connect us all through space, time and species. In our conversation, Giuliana also touches upon the breakthroughs which are now emerging in mycology.  We honor Giuliana for her leadership and for being able to listen to what the fungi need without inserting her own agenda. Tune in to expand your perception of existence and harmonize with the vast and powerfully interconnected  ecosystems beyond our human form!  THE FUTURE IS FUNGI. Thank you Giuliana!  Mentioned In This Episode:  Fungi Foundation  The Future is Fungi   Giuliana Where to find Giuliana:  Instagram | Twitter  @FUNGIFOUNDATION @FUNDACIONFUNGI    SUPPORT SOUNDFOOD  DONATE TO US  Everything and anything you can give helps us continue to share these conversations with the world! Episodes Mentioned: A VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS: Film, Farming, Fungi and the Future with Nathalie Kelley THE MAGIC OF MUSHROOMS: Full Spectrum Fungi to Raise the Planetary Frequency with Tonya Papanikolov  À LA MODE : The Pursuit of a Passionate, Balanced, and Authentic Life with Vanessa Hong NOURISHMENT PARTNERS Rainbo Mushrooms: Enter SOUNDFOOD15 and enjoy 15% off all medicinal mushroom nourishment on rainbo.com Christy Dawn: Use NITSAC15 and enjoy 15% off their farm-to-closet  dresses on christydawn.com Living Tea: Enter  SOUNDFOOD for 10% off all tea nourishment  from livingtea.net Living Libations: Use the code SOUNDFOOD15 and enjoy 15% off your order from livinglibations.com for high vibrational botanical beauty nourishment  MIKUNA: Enter  SOUNDFOODFAMILY for 25% off your  first purchase  and  30% off subscriptions from mikunafoods.com CONNECT WITH US soundfood.space @soundfoodspace JAM SESSION  Catch our recent JAM SESSION with Desiree here  TELEPORTAL  tune in via text for high vibrational updates @ 1-805-398-6661  MERCURIAL MAIL  Subscribe to our newsletter HERE Connect with our Host @nitsacitrine Lastly, we would be so grateful if you felt inspired to leave us a review on APPLE PODCAST!

Curious to learn why mushrooms are so crucial to our lives? Humans have depended on fungi since the beginning of our existence. Learn from master mycologist Giuliana Furci how past generations used bread mold as an antibiotic, why the fungal revolution is at its height, and how humans and animals depend on mushrooms for survival. Guiliana, the first female field mycologist in Chile and founder of the Fungi Foundation, the first NGO dedicated to fungi in the world, opens our minds up to the world of fungal wonders. Sharing what's shifted in the world of awareness and how the documentary Fantastic Fungi on Netflix has opened hearts to create a new generation of fungi activists. Also discussed in this episode: Ethics of Mushrooms Foraging, Ethical Harvesting & Foraging of Mushrooms, Wood Wide Web, Food Preservation is a Fungal Conversation (sourdough, fermenting, etc), & How a Mushroom Species from the Amazon Breaks Down Plastic Follow Giuliana Furci on Instagram at: @giulifungi Love this episode? Leave us a review on Apple & follow us at @ConsciousKitchenPod on Instagram Donate to the Fungi Foundation & Support Giuliana's important work: https://ffungi.org/ Visit our new site! ConsciousKitchenPodcast.com where you can learn more about the hosts: Laura and Liz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This Episode is Sponsored by Almond Cow - Plant-Based Milk at the Touch of a Button Use the code: CKPPodcast for a discount on your order. Shop your own Almond Cow here

Giuliana Furci on the Wonders of Mycology, Wisdom from Jane Goodall, Favorite Books, and the World's Largest Fungarium | Brought to you by Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplement, Eight Sleep's Pod Pro Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating, and Mack Weldon premium men's basics. More on all three below.Giuliana Furci (@giulifungi) is foundress and executive director of the Fungi Foundation (est. 2012), the world's first nonprofit dedicated solely to fungi. She is a Harvard University associate, Dame of the Order of the Star of Italy, co-chair of the IUCN Fungal Conservation Committee, mother, author of several titles — including a series of field guides to Chilean fungi — and contributor to numerous publications on the environment, such as the first State of the World's Fungi report (Kew, 2018), Biodiversidad de Chile: Patrimonio y Desafíos (Ministry of the Environment, Chile, 2008) and the IBPA Award-winning book Fantastic Fungi.Giuliana has worked for the fungi since 1999 and in the nonprofit sector for the last 17 years. She has held consulting positions in US philanthropic foundations as well as full-time positions in international marine conservation NGOs and Chilean environmental NGOs.Please enjoy!*This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens. I get asked all the time, “If you could only use one supplement, what would it be?” My answer is usually Athletic Greens, my all-in-one nutritional insurance. 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Today on the pod we've got an extraordinary opportunity to have a discourse with Giuliana Furci, Foundress of the Fungi Foundation.Giuliana's accolades in the world of mycology and fungi diplomacy are globally renowned and meteorically impactful - Fungi Foundation is the world's first NGO dedicated exclusively to the preservation and promotion of fungi conservation and education. One of the many crowning achievements of the foundation's work is getting the government of Chile to officially recognize the queendom of fungi in it's environmental legislation, making it the First Nation globally to do so - we're talk about what it means for fungi to receive government recognition and support, how to spearhead pro-fungi change in environmental policy and legislation, and we also talk about Fungi Diplomacy and how citizen diplomats and citizen scientists can effectively marshal change at institutional levels.We're also talk about the Future is Fungi event that Fungi Foundation and it's coterie of prolific advocates are hosting tomorrow, Saturday June 26th online worldwide — and what the future of fungi in educational curriculums around the globe looks like. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

So often fungi are pitched as being at the forefront of innovation, whether being used to create vegan leather, pharmaceuticals, or being incorporated into various biotechnology products, but this fixation on innovation can obscure our ancestral relationship to fungi and the wisdom they can share with us about decomposition. This week, we slow down to acknowledge the beauty and power of fungal decomposition with guest Giuliana Furci who shares a lesson in divine time, the transformation of energy, and the necessity of decomposition. Take a moment this week to learn about fungi's profound interspecies companionship and the simple reality that the world cannot regenerate itself without fungi. Additionally, to learn even more about these topics, look into supporting Fungi Foundation by joining them for their Fungi Foundation Virtual Speaker Event and Fundraiser on June 26th via their profile and webpage. Giuliana Furci is foundress and CEO of the Fungi Foundation, the first international non-profit dedicated to fungi and founded in Chile. She is also the first female mycologist in Chile. For more information about her work visit www.ffungi.org. Music by Roma Ransom, Rajna Swaminathan, and Julio Kinto. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

Get your tickets now for "THE FUTURE IS FUNGI" Event on 6/26/21:https://ffungi.org/eng/the-future-is-fungi/   Today we are joined be two powerful advocates for queendom fungi, Giuliana Furci and Nathalie Kelley. Giuliana's journey began at the age of 19, looking for native foxes in a forest on the Island of Chiloé when she came across a fungus that changed her course. Giuliana believes that fungi choose you, and she heard that call. She did not find field guides on fungi in Chile, so she decided to write one in 2006. She studied Aquaculture and went from studying algae and studies on the negative impacts of salmon farming, to leaving everything and starting the Fungi Foundation – the world's first NGO dedicated to fungal organisms.  Nathalie Kelley was born in Peru and raised in Australia by her Indigenous mother and grandmother. After working with street children in São Paulo, Brazil and Aboriginal inner-city youth in Redfern, Australia - she began her degree in Social Science and Policy at the University of UNSW. Not long after she started to work as an actress in film and television US, with notable roles in shows like Unreal, Dynasty and most recently as the star of ABC's The Baker and the Beauty.  Despite this change of course she remained inwardly mindful of her privilege and responsibility to her indigenous heritage and people. She has become an advocate for Indigenous peoples, regenerative agriculture, the soil and the undervalued but invaluable role of fungi in our ecosystem. She is now committed to using her story telling skills to be a voice for the voiceless - creating narratives of hope around the power of nature to regenerate and heal and the integral part humans have to play in this process. Nathalie is on the board of Kiss the Ground and the Fungi Foundation.   TOPICS COVERED:   How Nat Discovered Queendom Fungi  Giuliana & Nat Connection with Divine Timing  Fungi Foundation's Origins in Chile  Growth of the Fungi Foundation & Evolving Global Mission   Documenting Ancestral & Traditional Indigenous Interactions with Fungi  Indigenous Technologies will Yield the Biggest Future Discoveries in Mycology  Importance of Consent when Working with Indigenous Communities  Examples of Indigenous Communities Using Fungi  Indigenous Communities' Responses to the Program  Fungi Foundation Transcending Its Foundress  Future of Fungi Event  Lineup of Inspirational Presenters  How to Get Involved with the Fungi Foundation  EPISODE RESOURCES:"Future is Fungi" Event: https://ffungi.org/eng/the-future-is-fungi/   Fungi Foundation Website: https://ffungi.org/   Fungi Foundation IG: https://www.instagram.com/fungifoundation/   Giuliana Furci IG: https://www.instagram.com/giulifungi/   Nat Kelley IG: https://www.instagram.com/natkelley/   Calostoma (Genera): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calostoma   Alloclavaria purpurea (Fungus): http://www.mushroomexpert.com/alloclavaria_purpurea.html

Today's episode will expand your awareness of how powerful fungi (and consciousness) is for the past, present, and future of our Planet.    We are thrilled to welcome the passionate and brilliant Nathalie Kelley to the podcast. Nathalie is an actress of Indigenous Quechua descent and aspiring regenerative human.  She was raised in Sydney, Australia, mindfully travels the world, and now calls California her home base.  While perhaps most known for her roles as a film and television actress including in the Fast and Furious, Dynasty, and ABC's The Baker and the Beauty, she is on the board of the Fungí Foundation and is an active graduate of Kiss The Ground's Soil Advocacy program. Nathalie strives to use her gifts as a storyteller to be an advocate for her culture, the land, and humanity.    Nathalie's  life mission is to give a voice to the voiceless: namely the soil, the water, the fungí, the forest and to dedicate her life to preserving bio and Myco-diversity on the planet.  She uses her platform to spread awareness on social and environmental issues, with the hope to create more symbiosis and healing through the implementation of Indigenous wisdom and technology.    We discuss Nathalie's evolution as an activist, seeing life through the lens of an Indigenous woman, her early calling to be an actress, her zest for knowledge, paths of stewardship, and growing commitment to giving back.  This conversation offers a warm and hopeful call to action for all beings to live in more harmony and reverence of Earth.   Mentioned In This Episode:  “THE FUTURE IS FUNGI” Fundraiser and Speaker Event June 26th   Join @fungifoundation on June 26th for the inaugural Future is Fungi conference. Legendary mycologist @paulstamets is the keynote speaker; and @merlin.sheldrake and @giulifungi will engage in a mutual interview. Listen to additional talks on psychedelics and nature connectedness by @samwisegandy, Indigenous knowledge and uses of fungi by Mazatec @inti_garflo_78 and Cordyceps cultivation by @mycosymbiote. Attend an edible mushroom cooking class by the amazing @sophia_roe, be hypnotized by the trance inducing visuals from @louie.schwartzberg of @fantasticfungi, learn of the revolutionary mycelium based technology transforming the textile industry with @mephilross from @mycoworks and @davidnbreslauer, and listen to an exclusive after party set hosted by Nat Kelley.    Please visit the link to buy tickets to this landmark event. All proceeds will go directly to supporting the Fungi Foundation @fungifoundation / @fundacionfungi (Spanish) and their mission. This event is generously sponsored by @boltthreads makers of @mylo_unleather, supported by @medicinalmushroomco and powered by @howlertech. #fungifoundation #thefutureisfungi2021 #thinkfungi Where to find Nathalie Kelley: Nat Kelley on Instagram Fungi Foundation   Films Mentioned in This Episode: Romeo + Juliet The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Fantastic Fungi    TV Shows Mentioned in This Episode: Dynasty The Baker and The Beauty   Books Mentioned In This Episode: Letting Go by David Hawkins The Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön The Odyssey by Homer Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela   Also Mentioned in This Episode: Nichiren Buddhism  Kiss the Ground    SPECIAL CODE FOR LISTENERS Use the code SOUNDFOODFAMILY for  25% off first purchase 30% off subscriptions from mikunafoods.com   (chocho based superfood products)    TUNE INTO SOUNDFOOD: WEBSITE  INSTAGRAM   TEXT US ON OUR TELEPORTAL   for high vibrational updates on all things SOUNDFOOD @ 1-805-398-6661    MERCURIAL MAIL  Subscribe to our newsletter HERE.   If you haven't already > join our GIVEAWAY!   Connect with our Host: @nitsacitrine Lastly, we would be so grateful if you felt inspired to leave us a review on APPLE PODCAST!

Mycologist, author, and lecturer Giuliana Furci is the founder of the Fungi Foundation, the first NGO dedicated to fungi in the world. Here she discusses why the mushrooms are so great in Chile, how fungi is the foundation for all life on earth, and why Santa Claus is based on an indigenous mushroom trip.

Today we are joined by actress & activist, Nathalie Kelley, who speaks to why the fungal queendom deserves recognition and employment now more than ever. We look to fungi as an example of regenerative living, and discuss the real ways in which humans can readopt that lifestyle. We also talk about the growing awareness around fungi and how to encourage that momentum for a better world. In particular, we discuss the important work of the Fungi Foundation, a Chilean organization that focuses on the conservation and documentation of fungi. Tune in to get inspired— or re-inspired— to fuel the fungal queendom's role in the modern world..Nathalie Kelley is a Peruvian-Australian actress, Indigenous woman, and aspiring regenerative human. She has most recently starred in include Dynasty and ABC's The Baker and the Beauty. Inspired by the movie Fantastic Fungi, Nat joined the Fungi Foundation as a board member, alongside the incredible founder Giuliana Furci, renowned mycologist Paul Stamets, and natural winemaker Joanna Foster. .Donate to the Fungi Foundation today! Visit https://www.every.org/ffungi/ .More resourcesFungi Foundation Website: https://ffungi.org/ Kiss the Ground: https://kisstheground.com/ Lo—TEK, Design by Radical Indigenism: https://www.juliawatson.com/ Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake: https://www.merlinsheldrake.com/entangled-life

Today we highlight the immensely important work of Giuliana Furci. We discuss the conservation of fungi and why it's important. How do we address endangered species of fungi? How can we actually take action and support these critical measures? We also cover women's role in mycology, how and why mycology needs to be incorporated into educational curriculums, and so much more. .Giuliana founded Fungi Foundation in 2012, through which she has focused on the conservation of fungi, sustainable collection of edible wild mushrooms, education, mycological explorations, the curatorship of the FFCL Fungarium, and the creation of national and international mycological capacity. Her achievements have led her to work and partner with important international institutions such as the Farlow Herbarium of Harvard University, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and the Telluride Mushroom Festival, among others. Chile is the only country in the world that has included fungi in its environmental legislation at the highest legislative level, thanks to Giuliana's fundamental role. This legislation has created dozens of jobs for and initiated formal financing for mycologists in Chile. Giuliana has written and collaborated with numerous publications including “Fungi Austral” and “Field Guide to Fungi of Chile” vol 1. and 2.