196 Toby Kiers, the Jane Goodall of fungi and mycorrhizal networks on being an underground astronaut

Toby Kiers, Executive Director & Chief Scientist at SPUN (Society for the Protection of Underground Networks) shares about their research into the mycorrhiza network, mapping biodiversity, DNA sequences of mycorrhizal fungi and a lot more about the wonderful world under our feet.

She is the Jane Goodall of fungi (according to the words of previous guest Rose Marcario, former CEO of Patagonia).
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Chapters

• 2:57 What is SPUN?
• 14:40 Why are you doing what you are doing? Why Soil?
• 21:39 What would you tell a room full of farmers?
• 31:05 What should smart investors know about fungi and the world underneath our feet?
• 52:51 If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing what would it be?
• 55:29 What would you do if you were in charge of a 1B investment portfolio?