BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:75@cmsweb.org DTSTART:20240813T010000Z DTEND:20240813T030000Z DTSTAMP:20240708T030453Z URL:https://cmsweb.org/events/tbd-with-britt-bunyard/ SUMMARY:Britt Bunyard - A Resilient Planet Needs Fungi Now: The Secret Live s of Fungi DESCRIPTION:A Resilient Planet Needs Fungi Now: The Secret Lives of Fungi\n Fungi are weird\, fungi are cool\, and fungi are beautiful. But how m uch do we really know about them? For starters\, they do much more than ju st rot things. They control pretty much all life on our planet and are e verywhere. Britt Bunyard’s lecture will present fascinating stories and beautiful photos of amazing fungi featured in his latest book. Discover the crazy\, wonderful life that goes on all around us\, mostly hidden in plain sight. For general audiences\, no knowledge of mycology is required \, and all levels of mycological questions are encouraged for the Q&\;A . This lecture is based on features from Bunyard’s new book\, The Live s of Fungi\, A Natural History of Our Planet's Decomposers.\nBritt Bunya rd\, PhD\, is the founder\, Publisher\, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycolog y journal Fungi\, in\nprint since 2008. Britt is a former university profe ssor and has published over 100 academic and popular\nscience papers. He h as served as an editor for mycological and entomological research journals \, and\nmushroom guide books.\n\nA popular evangelizer on all things funga l\, Britt has given more than 250 invited lectures to\nacademic and popula r audiences across North America and beyond. He has been featured on the B BC\nWorld Service’s Newshour\, NPR’s All Things Considered\, PBS’s N OVA and Wisconsin Foodie\ntelevision programs\; and interviewed or quoted in Discover magazine\, The Atlantic\, National\nGeographic\, Vox\, Vogue\, Forbes\, Saveur\, Eating Well\, Hobby Farm\, Women’s World\, and other\ nmagazines and newspapers.\n\nBritt has collected fungi and lectured throu ghout North and South America\, Europe\, and Asia.\nAnnually\, he leads my cological expeditions throughout the world. One such expedition\, was the subject\nof a documentary film “Look Down Not Up” (2022)\, produced by documentary filmmakers Alok Siddhi\nTuladhar and Dusty Shiva Panthi of Ka thmandu\, Nepal.\n\nBritt has authored several books\, including The Littl e Book of Fungi (2024\; Princeton University\nPress)\, Lives of the Fungi (2022\; Princeton University Press)\, The Beginner’s Guide to Mushrooms\ n(2021\; Quarry Books)\, Amanitas of North America (2020\; The Fungi Press )\, and Mushrooms and\nMacrofungi of Ohio and Midwestern States (2012\; Th e Ohio State University Press).\nBritt has served as Executive Director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival since 2014. In 2021\nhe was awarded the G ary Lincoff Award “For Contributions to Amateur Mycology\,” by the Nor th\nAmerican Mycological Association—NAMA’s most prestigious honor for American mycologists.\n\nStreaming:\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.z oom.us/j/88964855601?pwd=R3N2Skg0UWFYYkoyS0dXeGkrRWlFUT09\n\nMeeting ID: 8 89 6485 5601\nPasscode: 334787 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cmsweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/CM S_Home-CO-Overlay-2.jpg CATEGORIES:Meeting LOCATION:Sturm Auditorium - Denver Botanic Gardens\, 1085 York St\, Denver\ , CO\, 80206\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1085 York St\, Denver\, CO\ , 80206\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Sturm Auditorium - Denv er Botanic Gardens:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR