In
the article “Magic mushrooms: how fungus could help rebuild derelict Cleveland”,
(Dorwart, 2018) expressed that mycelium bricks could be the solution to rebuild
the housing crisis in Cleveland. Over 500 million tons of construction waste go
to landfills each year. Meanwhile buildings are responsible for 40% of carbon
emissions in the US.
By
combining construction waste and debris
with “biobinders” (natural glue or cement) like fungi, plant materials and
microbes in a process called “biocycling”, which essentially recycles
old buildings into new ones using plant materials. Cleveland is subjected
to be a place for testing of the mycelium bricks.
With the use of mushrooms, it will improve
general wellbeing as they assimilate contaminants and poisons, for example,
lead. According to the American Lung Association, youngsters in Cleveland are exposed
to lead at around multiple times the national normal and the city's quality is
ninth most noticeably awful in the country. By utilizing mushrooms, it will
help to reduce the quality of air and thus making the city a better place.
By reusing old and waste materials, it will
help to save the overall costs. In the
article it stated that a “Redhouse studio is working to utilise the use of biocycling
and showcase the use of sustainable architecture”. They are planning to reuse the
debris from the three story 19th century building and combine it
with mycelium to construct the building blocks for a shed at a nearby urban
farm.
As the public is still sceptical about incorporating
the use of mycelium into buildings, time and patience are key. Thus, by being
able to incorporate the use of mycelium, it will help to enlighten
economic stability and public
health.
Reference
Dorwart.L
(2018, July 5).
Magic mushrooms: how fungus could help rebuild derelict Cleveland. The Guardian. Retrieved November 8, 2019,
from https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/05/magic-mushrooms-how-fungus-could-help-rebuild-derelict-cleveland
Thanks very much, Mirzah, for sharing this summary of an article from a newspaper. It has some useful info. Still, as the assignment requires, I'd like to learn how you think the article info is relevant to your project. One of the requirements of our annotated summary, in fact, is a stated connection between the info in the summary and one's own research project, but you seem to have left that bit out. It's the 'assess' and 'reflect' sections of the summary mentioned on the page we referenced when we dicussed this in class: https://researchguides.njit.edu/c.php?g=671638&p=4727422
ReplyDeleteAt the same time, you still seem to have some problems citing a source using the APA. Check out this webpage: http://columbiacollege-ca.libguides.com/apa/websites
You also might remember the example of an annotated summary I shared in class: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zzddSbctpAPkq9D6aJEXph8Qwl9FVwue
In any case, I really appreciate your hard work. I'll give more specific feedback in class.
Thank you for the feedback prof. I tried to pick out some pointers which could be useful to the report. I agree with you that it is not that relevant to my project. I still feel that my citations is quite weak even when I reference to the symbaloo page. I will try to make some amendments!
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