Open Source Experiment Design Plans
Appropriate technologies improve lives. Accessibility to appropriate technologies is important for everyone. When appropriate technologies can help mitigate toxicity in the environment, accessibility is not only important, it is crucial and necessary. Wikipedia describes appropriate technologies as those that are "...small-scale, affordable by locals, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable, and locally autonomous." Mycoremediation technologies certainly fit within this definition.
Additionally, there are legal tools - such as the Creative Commons - and open online libraries - such as Appropedia.org - that allow for the sharing of ideas and innovative appropriate technologies that have been designed in order to help us all live better lives.
According to CreativeCommons.org/About, they provide "...licenses and public domain tools that give every person and organization in the world a free, simple, and standardized way to grant copyright permissions for creative and academic works; ensure proper attribution; and enable others to copy, distribute, and make use of those works."
According to Wikipedia, "Appropedia is a wiki-based website that contains content relating to poverty, environmental degradation and international development." And according to Appropedia, the website helps "...organizations produce and make available quality documentation on sustainability, poverty reduction and appropriate technologies." The default license for content uploaded to Appropedia is the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license.
Given its ability to mitigate toxins in the environment, mycoremediation is without a doubt an appropriate technology that belongs in the commons.
To this end, we are officially open sourcing this mycoremediation experiment's design plans into the Creative Commons and have uploaded it to Appropedia.org here as the article titled "Myco-Filter Socks for Mycoremediation". This will allow anyone, anywhere in the world with access to Appropedia, the ability to read, use, share, and/or modify for their need this experiment's design plans as they wish.
It is our hope that this will contribute to the increased mitigation of toxins in the environment and the advancement of mycoremediation technologies worldwide.
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