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he word “sustainability” conjures thoughts of eco-conscious lifestyles in a world where less than “green” options are the norm. Opting to go paperless, choosing reusable bags, deciding to use mass transit over a personal gas-guzzling car, buying local—the list goes on.

In the world of cannabis, we’re also being asked to make sustainable choices. Businesses are re-examining lighting, soil mediums, watering practices and packaging options in an effort to go green.

In DOPE’s first Sustainability Issue, we take a different approach to sustainability. We meet up with Macy Gray to discuss what it takes to maintain a career in music for upwards of three decades, and chat about her favorite experiences abroad. We also tap into what it takes to die in a sustainable way; as the global population soars, it’s simply no longer feasible for us to be buried six feet under. We examine the group turning Detroit’s abandoned lots into apiaries, how to create the perfect wave and chat with a saxophonist who holds a world record for the longest sustained musical note.

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This issue is inventive, unexpected and will keep you on your toes. Throughout these pages, we’ve incorporated facts pertaining to eco-consciousness and sustainability. For instance, did you know one recycled plastic bottle saves enough energy to run a 100-watt bulb for four hours?

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DOPE MAGAZINE MAY 2018 | THE SUSTAINABILITY ISSUE The word “sustainability” conjures thoughts of eco-conscious lifestyles in a world where less than “green” options are the norm.

In DOPE’s first Sustainability Issue, we take a different approach to sustainability. We meet up with Macy Gray to discuss what it takes to maintain a career in music for upwards of three decades and chat about her favorite experiences abroad. Throughout these pages, we’ve incorporated facts pertaining to eco-consciousness and sustainability. For instance, did you know one recycled plastic bottle saves enough energy to run a 100-watt bulb for four hours?

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here is a common misconception that Macy Gray rose to fame overnight. There are few people who can’t recall the lyrics to Gray’s “I Try,” released almost 20 years ago—a song that snagged her a 2001 Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Gray will be the first to admit she had no idea the level of success “I Try” would garner. She was thrust into the limelight and quickly began touring the world. When I ask what she misses about making music in the early years, before fame, she chuckles and quickly retorts, “Nothing! Of course, there is a purity to being young and you don’t know much, so that is beautiful, but it’s good to grow up, too…it’s good to be in a real studio with real producers and equipment.” Those years made for good stories, but she doesn’t want to jump into a time capsule any time soon.

Prior to her globetrotting, Macy attended the School of Dramatic Arts at USC. The film school and music kids comingled in the courtyard, and it was there Macy embarked on a project that would change her career trajectory. She made a friend who had a 4-track in his dorm and played guitar; this led to her first introduction to greats like Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday and Nat King Cole. She memorized lyrics and began playing gigs at a local Ramada Inn—she recalls having been 17 or 18 at the time. The Ramada Inn gigs led to a rock band, then a jazz band, then to the Sunset Strip, where she would play at famous clubs like the Roxy to crowds of eight people.

I’m sure there were nights when more than eight people showed up, but Gray’s ability to joke about the size of the audience is evidence of her humbleness. On one particular evening, Tom Carolan from Atlantic Records happened to be drinking a beverage at the Roxy. Macy wowed him, and he offered her a showcase for Atlantic that led to Gray’s first record deal. A marriage, three kids and eventual divorce put her promising music career on hold, and it wasn’t until years later Gray would land a deal with Epic Records, the label that produced her debut album, On How Life Is. Macy and I meet in a small loft in West Hollywood—a converted air hangar that buttresses up to a quaint courtyard. Trees are bursting with the first evidence of spring; oranges weigh down tree limbs and California Mock Orange flowers bloom on nearby branches, turning the courtyard into an aromatic paradise. Macy is sitting legs crossed in an oversized vintage peacock chair. In classic Macy style, she’s donning colossal shades and coral lipstick—the glasses give Gray an air of mystery.

Her presence in a room is palpable before you’ve even seen her. She spent most of the morning in hair and make-up, playing a mix of hits on a portable speaker she towed into the studio. The room burst into life, and Gray was the driving force behind the dancing that ensued.

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A new album is on the horizon for Gray, and it’s become one of her favorite works to date; a massive tour is scheduled to launch in the fall of this year. When I press her to tell me more, she responds, “It’s hard to talk about music, you gotta hear it. I could say, ‘Oh My God. It’s so dope!’ But you still haven’t heard it. It’s a proper album, and I’m proud of it.” Gray says we can expect to start hearing singles drop in late May or early June.

Despite a new record and the usual hustle and bustle of everyday life, Gray has found time to champion some noteworthy projects. She’s setting up a foundation called “My Good,” a positive spin on my bad, the widely-used phrase borrowed from pick-up basketball. The foundation will shed light on and help reduce the negative stigmas often associated with mental illness—especially as it pertains to the youth in our country. The project is a personal and intimate endeavor for Gray. “I think mental illness is attached to negativity,” she notes. “I am so close to it, and I see what’s missing and why people go so long without the real care that they need. I feel like I can make a real difference.” The foundation will be an ongoing project for Gray, and she’ll use her new album to bring awareness to the campaign. “A portion of ticket sales from the tour and some of the album sales will be dedicated to the cause as well,” Gray shares with pride.

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I can’t help but wonder if, in the age of pixels, our young folks will miss out on the types of experiences Macy describes.

“I will go out to dinner with people,” Gray recounts, “and they’re on their phones, and I’m like, ‘I am going to go home and you can have a conversation with your phone.’” As a mother, Gray hasn’t had to force her kids to step away from the screen. “As a parent, you want to encourage your kids to go out and do stuff. I don’t have to tell my kids [to go out], they do it naturally,” Macy remarks with gratitude in her voice. With wide eyes, she makes one last comment about her travels: “In Tokyo,” she explains, “the waitresses are fucking robots. A robot dressed in a waitress outfit, and they bring your food to you!” For a moment, Macy’s tone changes and she mentions something about Uber having helicopters. Then she pauses, laughs and says, “It looks like we’re gonna be the Jetsons!” This HannaBarbera-esque world doesn’t seem that far off, and I have to laugh with her at the idea of a “Space Age” future.

Gray has had the pleasure of working with some of the most influential musicians of our time. Matt Chamberlain, who has worked with many greats like Elton John, Pearl Jam and Bill Frisell, accompanied Gray as the drummer on the live and unplugged version of On How Life Is. “I don’t know any other drummer that has the kind of swing that [Chamberlain] has,” Gray asserts. “Whatever he does, it works, and you can dance to it. It’s cool. I love it.” At first, Gray didn’t realize who Chamberlain was, and was pushing to have her own drummer in the studio.

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This issue of DOPE Magazine is all about sustainability, and it would be silly not to ask Macy what she’s done to sustain such a lengthy career in the music industry. “You just keep doing it,” she posits. “If you really love it, there is no reason to stop. You are going to have crazy ups and downs, but no matter how crazy things get, how many times people tell you no, how broke you get or disappointed, you just keep going.” Gray’s message is clear—each day is another opportunity to shine and show the world what you’re made of.

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THE I D Released: September 17, 2001 A remix of “My Nutmeg Phantasy” appeared in the 2002 film Spider-Man.

THE TROU BL E W I T H BEI NG MYS E L F Released: April 28, 2003 Beck sang back-up vocals and played guitar on Track 2, “It Ain’t the Money.”

BI G Released: March 21, 2007 Producers of Big include Justin Timberlake and will.i.am—the track “What I Gotta Do” made the soundtrack of Shrek the Third.

COV ERED Released: March 26, 2012 In tow with a Parental Advisory warning, a first for Gray, Covered offers Macyesque renditions of greats like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, Metallica nd Radiohead.

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Released: September 9, 2016 Recorded live in a Brooklyn church, Stripped debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard Jazz Album chart.

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ou likely recall Kenny G as the curly-haired musician who inexplicably made the saxophone and smooth jazz a pop staple of the late ‘90s. If you don’t recognize the name, know that his music has undoubtedly soundtracked an elevator ride or visit to a hotel lobby at some point in your life. In 1998, Kenny G was a guest on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and made the bold statement he was going to set a world record for the longest sustained note. When quizzed by Leno about how long this note may be, Kenny replied, “about 20 minutes.” Leno promptly lost his mind.

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The secret Kenny G kept behind his confident, wry smile as he spoke to Leno was that it would be possible to exceed a 20-minute sustained note with a breathing method known as circular breathing. Circular breathing is accomplished by breathing in through the nose while simultaneously pushing breath out through the mouth using air stored in the cheeks; think of the sustained sound of an indigenous Australian playing a didgeridoo. The same effect can be performed on any wind instrument.

The claim of a 20-minute sustained note didn’t sound so outrageous to fellow saxophonist Vann Burchfield of Hoover, Alabama. As Vann describes, “I had already learned how to circular breathe back in junior high, so I thought, shoot, I’m going to set a personal challenge and see if I can go twenty minutes.” The next year Kenny G went before the Guinness judges and set a record at 45 minutes and 47 seconds.

Burchfield first picked up the saxophone at his grandparents’ home. “When I put the mouthpiece on and started to play,” he recalls, “it felt different to playing other instruments. The saxophone let me express myself, and I literally felt something deep in my soul when I played it. The saxophone is the instrument that most emulates the human voice. Which means, if I

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want, I can play hauntingly beautiful melodies. If I’m in a different mood, I can play some upbeat, groovin’ kind of music.”

Describing himself as “a man on a mission when I set my mind to do something,” he knew he “could break Kenny G’s record.” Over the next six months, Burchfield worked his way up to 20 minutes, then 40 minutes; he claims to have once played a note for one hour, eight minutes and 22 seconds. But no record is complete, of course, without the seal of the Guinness World Record committee, and on February 17, 2000, Burchfield made his formal attempt.

“During the Guinness record,” he tells me, “you have to stand the whole time and the note has to maintain constant pitch and volume.

You can’t go five decibels above or below your note. And the note can’t go sharp or flat. After about 30 minutes, your mouth fills with saliva; on a trumpet, you’ve got a spit valve and you can release that saliva. But on the saxophone I had to learn the art of circular breathing while swallowing saliva. I had to tilt my whole body back, swallow the saliva, maintain note and pitch—all while circular breathing.”

Burchfield managed to hold his C# for a new Guinness World Record time of 47 minutes and five seconds, surpassing the mark set by Kenny

I HAVE SO MUCH RESPECT FOR KENNY G. HE SAW ME PLAYING ONE TIME, AND HE LITERALLY WALKED ACROSS THE ARENA . . . HE SAID, ‘DO YOU MIND IF I SEE YOUR HORN?’ AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, ‘IT AIN’T THE HORN, BROTHER!’

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G by almost two minutes. He wants to be clear, however, that his pursuit of the record was never to be perceived as anything but honoring Kenny G’s contribution in raising the profile of saxophone musicians everywhere. “I never did this to be like, ‘You’re not as good as me,’” he posits. “I have so much respect for Kenny G. He saw me playing one time, and he literally walked across the arena and was clapping and encouraging me. He said, ‘Do you mind if I see your horn?’ And I thought to myself, ‘It ain’t the horn, brother!’ He said, ‘Well, you have a great tone. And you’re very good.’

That was in my twenties—he encouraged me to do great things. One of them was to go on and surpass his record. But breaking the record was never to knock off his crown.”

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Subsequent to Vann’s record, Kenny G told HuffPost Live that he planned to regain his title by partnering with an airline, and hold a note for the entire length of an hour-long flight to raise money for charity. But these plans were scuttled when Guinness World Records decided to rest the category.

According to Elizabeth Montoya, Assistant Public Relations Manager at Guinness World Records, “When a category is rested, it means that we are no longer monitoring it for new record holders. As the category is rested, Vann Burchfield is now the former record title holder.” When asked why the category was rested, Montoya confirmed, “This category has been rested due to the dangers associated with circular breathing, as confirmed by medical examiners.” She then cited an article published in the British Medical Journal, which concludes that circular breathing for extended periods of time can be dangerous, as the brain is depleted of oxygen.

But for Burchfield and Kenny G, there’s still hope to find their way back into the Guinness Book of World Records.

Montoya confirmed that a new category exists: “Longest sustained note on a wind or brass instrument, in which the musician must employ a nose plug during the attempt, as circular breathing is not permitted.” The current record holder is Philip Palmer, who played the longest sustained note of one minute and 13 seconds on a clarinet. Vann Burchfield might be ready to set himself another personal challenge. “I have it documented that I’ve gone one minute and 45 seconds on a saxophone,” he notes. “People can deep dive for up to four minutes—that record has a long way to go.”

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of Detroit Hives. They hope to heal the city medicinally, environmentally and socially by taking its vacant lots and turning them into beekeeping apiaries. The idea blossomed after a Detroit market owner suggested Paule try local honey to get over a cold. When the honey helped his sickness subside, he realized their neighborhood needed access to the benefits of raw, organic honey. “When we found out about local honey,” Lindsey explains, “we thought, ‘ Why not bring this to Detroit, because a lot of apiaries are further out, like two to three hours away . . . why not bring this type of apiary to the inner city of Detroit?’”

“Detroit has well over 90,000 vacant lots,”

constitution, which has led to one in three Detroit properties being foreclosed on. When the automobile factories shut down, many were left abandoned. Homes are foreclosed on and often never reoccupied, left to rot right before the eyes of Detroit residents.

The ensuing neglect has left many locals suffering, resulting in a city with the highest concentration of poverty in any large city in America, proliferating Detroit’s extreme urban blight—when a functioning city, or part of a city, visually deteriorates and decays.

But one couple, Timothy Paule and Nicole Lindsey, are creating a buzz around the blight. Paule and Lindsey are Co-Founders

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Paule adds. “We wanted to take these vacant lots and offer the same product to help other people like myself.”

Now they have two lots. The first, on East Warren Avenue, houses three hives but will have closer to ten this upcoming season.

The second is a commercial parking lot on State Fair and Hoover that they project will have closer to twenty hives. “The first vacant [lot] we purchased was an eyesore,” Paule recalls. “It was literally a dumping ground, loaded with tires, trash and debris.” But they didn’t have to clean it alone. Family, friends and local community organizers heard about what they were doing and came out to lend a helping hand.

W i t h c o n t r i b u t i o n s f ro m o t h e r l o c a l organizations, these lots have become more than apiaries; they’re a source of optimism and opportunity in the community. Detroit Hives not only takes blighted areas and cleans them up, it also informs and invests in communities that have been disregarded for far too long. “Peace Tree Parks is a community organization,” Paule notes. “We partnered with them, and they brought two garden plots of

vegetables. We took those vegetables and gave them away to the community.” Detroit Hives will be working with local beekeepers and gardeners to keep this outreach going i n t h e s e c o n d l o t a s we l l . “A l o t o f t h e produce there will go to a homeless shelter or residents,” Paule continues. “It will also be educating the community about pollinators, their importance to our environment, and the importance of organic food.”

For those at Detroit Hives, this is bigger than bees. As Lindsey puts it: “We wanted to revitalize our neighborhood.” And it seems they’ve begun to do just that. “Since we’ve been in the community,” Lindsey observes, “we’ve been inspiring people there to clean up their property.” Looks like the bees aren’t the only ones contributing to a blossoming Detroit future.

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BUSY A S A BE E K E E PER Backyard beekeeping has become a common hobby among many Americans, particularly with the decline in the honey bee population since 2012—as much as 60% of all colonies have been wiped out.

Here are a few simple steps to jump-start backyard beekeeping in your neighborhood.

ZONING REGULATIONS Before you begin building, make sure your local ordinances and zoning codes allow for backyard beekeeping.

JOIN A LOCAL BEEKEEPING CLUB Join a beekeeping club near you— they’re filled with people who have a wealth of knowledge you can apply to your building and beekeeping efforts.

SAFETY CLOTHING AND TOOLS Buy safety clothing. Not every beekeeper uses the safety clothing, but for a new beekeeper it’s the safest way to begin. You will also need a smoker, a device that breaks down communication between bees and forces them to disperse, making it easier to gather honey.

IT’S TIME TO BUILD! Take what you’ve learned from your beekeeping club, as well as the research you’ve done, and get started!

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n their 1976 classic, “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” Blue Öyster Cult sang that “40,00 men and women” die every day. Today, that number is more like 151,600. That’s a lot of bodies, and frankly, we’re running out of places to store them all. Ignoring sustainability entirely, how we dispose of our deceased is becoming a big problem. In Sweden, for instance, your grave is dug up twenty-five years after burial, your corpse is pushed farther into the ground, and another body is added on top—there simply isn’t space for new bodies. The Swedes are known for their compartmentalization (I see you, IKEA! Love your meatballs!) but when it comes to our final resting place, there’s got to be a better way.

Environmental activist Edward Abbey, famously buried in the desert in a sleeping bag, stated that “[After] the moment of death . . . we should get the hell out of the way, with our bodies decently planted in the earth to nourish other forms of life—weeds, flowers, shrubs, trees, which support other forms of life, which support the ongoing human pageant—the lives of our children. That seems good enough to me.” And today, you can do just that. Although cremation remains the number one choice of disposal in North America, and traditional burial a close second, green practices are quickly catching up.

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GREEN POSTMORTEM GLOSSARY If you decide on a green burial, you’ll get to choose exactly how your body returns to the earth. Here’s a quick look at a few of the more popular methods.

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Also known as water cremation, resoma is a “Greek/Latin derivation for ‘rebirth of the human body.’”

The results are the same as traditional cremation, with remains becoming a “bone white ash,” but the process involves water and “alkalibased solution” to break down the body in a chamber for 3-4 hours, rather than fire.

From the Italian promessa (“promise”), the body is cryogenically frozen postmortem, then vibrated “by sound at an amplitude that reduces it to powder.”

The remaining particles are freezedried. This material is “nutrient-dense,” and, if placed in soil, will continue the decomposition process and can be used as fertilizer.

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RECOMPOSITION/ COMPOSTING Exactly what it sounds like—your body is, well, composted. Methods are still in the works, and the Urban Death Project is at the forefront of this new movement, but facilities have not yet opened. Bodies would be placed in a compost-ready environment, called a “core,” then covered with woodchips and other compost materials. The body then breaks down naturally. The resulting soil can be used as fertilizer.

CAPSULA MUNDI Better known as the “tree pod” burial.

The body or ashes are placed in an egg-like pod, which is then “buried as a seed in the earth.” You can choose the tree that will be planted on top of the pod; the tree then acts as your tombstone marker.

Your loved ones can tend to the tree as it grows.

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DUNGENESS CRABS Ok, this last one isn’t real, but it’s fun (?) to think about. Mary Roach wrote in “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers,” that a retired science teacher, Phillip Backman, told her the “cleanest, quickest and most ecologically pure thing to do with a body would be to put it in a big tide-pool of Dungeness crabs, which apparently enjoy eating people as much as people enjoy eating crabs.” Yum!

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PREFERRED BURIAL TYPES Green burials are gaining popularity, but according to the Cremation Association of North America, cremation has seen an impressive rise in popularity since the ‘70s and remains the number one choice of body disposal on the continent.

300 BCE The year historians believe purposeful cremation began, “most likely in Europe and the Near East.”

1876 The year the first crematory was built in America by Dr. Julius LeMoyne. Europe’s first crematories followed in 1878 in Germany and England.

5% Percentage of bodies cremated in North America in 1972.

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NOT SURE WHERE TO START? T he Green Burial Council is t he leading green death standards board.

They certify “funeral homes, burial grounds and burial products” as green and provide a helpful interactive map of GBC providers so you can see if there are alternative funeral services near you. You don’t need to be buried out in the woods somewhere—there are over 300 green-certified cemeteries in Canada and the United States.

A nyo n e c u r i o u s a b o u t h av i n g a sustainable death should make this their first stop.

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Cremation does indeed create less waste than a traditional casket and land plot, but the “natural gas that goes into a cremation is [equivalent to] two full tanks of an SUV, or a 500-mile car trip,” as mortician, author and “Good Death” advocate Caitlin Moran told Jezebel. Perhaps more disturbing is the amount of mercury released into the atmosphere during cremation due to… brace yourself…our dental fillings. You don’t see a pamphlet about that at the dentist’s office. Best-selling author Mary Roach notes in “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers” that “the average amount of mercury released into the atmosphere” is “three grams per cremation.” Maybe we all should have flossed more?

If you lived your life sustainably, why wouldn’t you die sustainably? We’ve provided an intro to green burials, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. You can be buried on a funeral pyre, thanks to the help of organizations like the Crestone End-of-Life Project; you can donate your body to science, perhaps at The Body Farm, where your decomposition will help forensic scientists solve crimes; or you can go full-on Edward Abbey and decompose back to the earth.

(The legality on that last one is iffy, but hey, chase your bliss). We’ve all got to go sometime. Know your options, create a plan with your loved ones and research, research, research. Make your memorialization an eco-conscious testament to the way you lived your life.

Percentage of bodies cremated in the United States in 2016.

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Percentage of bodies cremated in Canada in 2016.

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[AFTER] THE MOMENT OF DEATH . . . WE SHOULD GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY, WITH OUR BODIES DECENTLY PLANTED IN THE EARTH TO NOURISH OTHER FORMS OF LIFE—WEEDS, FLOWERS, SHRUBS, TREES, WHICH SUPPORT OTHER FORMS OF LIFE, WHICH SUPPORT THE ONGOING HUMAN PAGEANT— THE LIVES OF OUR CHILDREN. THAT SEEMS GOOD ENOUGH TO ME. – EDWARD ABBEY, ECO ACTIVIST

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To be considered “green,” according to Ellen Newman of the Good Green Death Project and TalkDeath, a burial must adhere to a few basic standards:

FOR THE BODY: No embalming fluid.

Natural shrouds or compostable/recyclable “basket caskets” are utilized. You can have a casket, but it must be made from biodegradable materials. Remains (if in powder form) must be in a biodegradable container.

FOR THE GRAVESITE: No grave markers. Naturally occurring markers like trees or stones are fine.

No vaults or grave liners.

No non-native species planted on burial grounds; no maintenance for the plants or grounds.

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magine all the plastic trash you accumulate from one trip to the grocery store, from water bottles and children’s toys to clamshell containers and cosmetic microbeads. Now imagine enough trash to equal the weight of one billion elephants, and you’ll have some sense as to the amount of plastic we’ve discarded since the 1950s.

Plastics are now humanity’s number one source of pollution, accounting for 20-30 percent of landfill volume worldwide, while an additional 12 million metric tons are dumped annually into our oceans. As each piece can take millennia to decompose completely, our discarded plastics form vast trash islands called “gyres”—there’s even one the size of Texas—where marine species mistake the toxic, increasingly-microscopic particles for plankton and other food sources.

With plastic consumption still on the rise, it’s a fast-compounding problem no one quite knows how to solve, but Peter McCoy is one of many who believe the answer has been under our feet the whole time. “Plastics have been known as

susceptible to fungal degradation since they were first manufactured over 100 years ago,” explains McCoy, who founded the grassroots research organization Radical Mycology, which advocates for underutilized applications of mushrooms and other fungi. Maybe the most underutilized of all is a process called mycoremediation, whereby fungi are used to decontaminate the environment. Distinct from plants, animals and bacteria, fungi are responsible for 90 percent of all decomposition on Earth, and their natural talent for colonizing and breaking down compounds too complex for other organisms has been harnessed to clean up manmade toxins such as TNT, herbicides, synthetic dyes and, yes, even plastic.

McCoy explains how early plastics manufacturers tested their products’ longevity by burying pieces in the ground to see what would happen. Af ter digging the

plastic up, experimenters discovered colonies of fungi beginning to naturally digest the decidedly-unnatural substance. So why aren’t we already spraying our plastic-clogged landfills with mushroom spores? “That applies to so much of mycology,” laments McCoy. “We know they have this potential, so why hasn’t it taken off?”

In much of the West, and particularly in the U.S., mushrooms are little-understood and often even feared, which is why Radical Mycology makes disseminating knowledge about their many uses a priority. The research is often there, but not the public awareness and acceptance necessary to make an impact.

So it goes with plastic remediation. Our understanding has come a long way since 2012, however, when a group of Yale students noticed one of their fungal samples from the Amazon was eating the plastic petri dish around it. Pivoting in their research, they discovered this random fungus—an endophytic form that occurs only inside plants—could survive with plastic as its sole food source, even in oxygen-deprived environments like landfills.

Before this, one of the biggest roadblocks to plastic remediation was that other fungal species wouldn’t decompose as rapidly in isolation, but instead worked best together, with numerous species fulfilling different functions throughout the decomposition process.

Endophytes may be one of the most diverse and mysterious of all

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fungal niches, so the Yale students’ discovery has kicked off a new wave of interest in this previously neglected branch of mycology.

Endophytic fungi may have inherited this supercharged decomposing ability from their lichen ancestors, known for degrading even volcanic rock with their digestive enzymes for a food source. McCoy speculates that focusing on lichen-derived genera of fungi like Penicillium and Aspergillus may thus provide the best path forward for mycoremediating plastics on a larger scale.

But there are many variables in cultivating mushrooms outside of a controlled environment. Thus, McCoy posits, it may be most effective to grow fungi in a lab and isolate their digestive enzymes separately, then spray high concentrations on landfills and floating gyres. Cultivators can even “train” a mushroom to create stronger, specialized enzymes by giving it increasing concentrations of the targeted pollutant—i.e., plastic—to consume.

Mycology may still be neglected compared to other sciences, but its usefulness in combatting our plastics problem and other environmental crises has become increasingly evident in the past five years. It just remains to be seen how and when humanity will put our new fungal knowledge to good use. “I have high hopes,” assures McCoy, “that someone—whether it’s an academic, private company, or some guy in his garage—will come up with the best way to break down plastics.”

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Along with their family, they share the ranch with dogs, cats, horses and a herd of Scottish Highlanders, the oldest known breed of cattle in the world. Trotter refers to their cows as “Mordus,” which stands for Mobile Organic Recycling Distribution Units. The cows not only fertilize the soil, but act as a compost system for the field once the plants have been harvested. The result is a regenerated, recycled soil full of phosphorus, potassium and other micronutrients they wouldn’t have access to otherwise.

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the ground like a scene from a James A. Michener novel. Jurassic Park was filmed nearby, and it was easy to see why. More than 2,000 miles from the mainland, the eight-island chain is one of the most remote in the world. We turned off the two-lane road into the parking lot of a small BBQ spot, the droning voice of the GPS announcing our arrival. The smell of island pork filled the car. I found my contact waiting at a small picnic table outside, eating his lunch from a Styrofoam clam shell.

He quickly briefed me on what was about to go down. Turns out my tales of men with machine guns were not too far from the truth.

“You are about to meet a man who many people recognize as the King of Hawaii,” he explained, his voice somber. I briefed the crew as we fell in line behind his 4x4, all the humor gone from my voice. “We have to make sure we carry ourselves with respect,” I said, turning to face my business partner, Jeremy, and his wife, Mari, in the back seat. “I have the feeling they don’t get many visitors.”

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stared out the backseat window of our rented Jeep Wrangler as the concrete sprawl of Honolulu gave way to lush jungle. We had spent the last three days working the Hawaiian Cannabis Expo, and all four of us were happy to be getting out of the city. I jokingly prepared the crew for what was to come. “There’s probably going to be men with machine guns,” I warned, playing on the anxiety that was building in the car. “They may make you wear a blindfold for the last part of the trip.”

We were on our way to see our first large-scale Hawaiian grow, and none of us knew just what to expect. Large-scale grows are almost unheard-of on the islands and never spoken of, especially to off-islanders. This was my fourth year working the cannabis scene on Oahu, and while we had seen our share of home grows and good island weed, this was a step beyond—a step into a world few people even knew existed.

Steep mountain peaks rose up into the clouds, bursting out of

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Veering off the one-lane road we followed the 4x4 onto a winding private drive, diving straight into the jungle, the mountain peaks now looming over us like protective giants. An eight-foot tall iron security gate halted our procession.

An armed guard in a small security shack buzzed the gate and two trucks hummed to life, backing out of the way to let our procession through before retaking their positions.

A series of small houses lined the dirt road. Massive caged Pit Bulls crossed with a breed I didn’t quite recognize greeted our arrival with howls and bays, clawing at their wire enclosures as we passed. We pulled to a stop in front of a large community building. One of the massive dogs ran up to me untethered as I stepped out of the Jeep, her face scarred but friendly. I ventured out a hand, holding it in front of her giant wet nose as she gave me a lick of approval.

Our contact motioned us into the building, leading our small party to a conference room. A giant, weathered table encircled by office chairs dominated the space. We took our seats only to quickly rise again as two large Hawaiians entered the room and stepped briskly to the side to make way for a third, an older, heavy-set, muscular man who introduced himself as “Uncle Bumpy,” extending his oak tree of an arm to shake my hand.

“Welcome to the Hawaiian Nation, my brotha,” he said. He motioned for us to take our seats and one of the men, who he introduced as his nephew, Brandon, began to pass out small, handprinted pamphlets bearing the seal

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of the Sovereign Nation of Hawaii. I flipped through mine. The carefully typed print was highlighted in yellow, outlining a timeline of events leading up to the establishment of the Pu‘uhonua o Waimanalo, loosely translated as place of refuge.

“I told them we were going to take all this land back, but it all started with our occupation of the beach at Sea Life Park some 300 strong.” Bumpy’s tone was low and serious, almost ceremonial, and our group sat quiet as he went on. “We just camped out.

We built wooden structures up. This was a major tourist destination, and we stayed there for over 15 months, from 1994 to 1995. By the time they offered us the land I didn’t want to sign, but I was worried because the beach was becoming crowded with unknowns using the beach to hide from the law.”

I checked my recorder to make sure I was getting the audio. Uncle Bumpy went on. “I wanted to hold them accountable. It was like having your most prized possession taken away. We were colonized, brah. They taught us American ideals and American purpose. They tried to take our culture away, the same way they have tried to do to all Indigenous Peoples throughout time.”

his voice surprisingly powerful, easily filling the small room. “In April we will speak before the United Nations. We want to present our issues, but then quickly pivot to the solutions we already have in place. This is applicable to all Indigenous Peoples. They can do what we have done, if properly supported.”

He motioned to the 50-acre compound around us.

Bumpy leaned in, locking eyes with me from across the table. “Imagine helping to create a country . . . Inside our country, inside these gates, we can do what we need to do. We have a monetary system; we are embracing cryptocurrency. The stuff we grow over here is helping people all over the place—real Hawaiian medicine, brah.” The energy in the room was rising, and I could feel the hairs on my arms starting to stand up.

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Hawaii had remained an independent monarchy until January 17, 1893, 100 years to the day before Dennis “Bumpy” Pu‘uhonua Kanahele, AKA Uncle Bumpy, would lead his band of 300 Hawaiian natives to the occupation at Sea Life park, the eight-island nation taken over by a handful of American religious missionaries with the backing of a small contingent of U.S. Marines. Thenpresident Grover Cleveland reacted by rejecting the illegal takeover of a sovereign nation, demanding that power be returned to ruling queen Lili'uokalani. Seven months later, Congress declared the coup an “Act of War” on a friendly and independent nation.

In spite of the lobbying, commercial and religious interests managed to per vade and the temporary republic was eventually adopted as the fiftieth U.S. state.

Bumpy went on. “We had treaties with over 20 different countries, trade, navigation—we had all of this, brah.” His tone was somber now, and you could feel the loss in his voice. “We are no longer looking for a win, brotha— we are looking to survive.” His nephew Brandon spoke up for the first time,

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“We into making justice show up again,” said Bumpy, his hands raised in exasperation.

“It’s been around the corner hiding for too long, because it’s been suppressed. Your tattoos give you away, brotha—you are one of us. Cannabis, cryptocurrency, they are the same; they need a country to embrace them, and we will be that country, brotha.”

With that he stood, motioning for us to rise as well. “Come, we will show you the land and then you can see what you came here to see,” he said, smiling. We exited the building into a pair of waiting ATV’s and raced off further into the jungle.

We spent the rest of the afternoon touring the kingdom, smoking oversized joints, and exploring the community cannabis gardens.

As we hugged our goodbyes and promised to return again, one thing was certain: what they’re doing here is groundbreaking. This little-publicized victory in the jungle was a win for the people. Like the cannabis movement, this land represented a chink in the armor of the powers that be. Whatever the future would hold, we all left wishing our best to this tiny sovereign nation holding its own in the South Pacific.

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any of us hear the phrase “tissue culture propagation” and completely zone out. Scientific jargon is as confusing as it is important, which is why the experts at Front Range Biosciences (FRB) have been working to create tissue cultures, a technique used to produce clones of a plant to breed disease-free, disease-resistant, highyielding plants. Leading the charge is Dr. Cecilia Zapata.

Dr. Zapata grew up in Caracas, Venezuela, where she first discovered her love for science. “I always wanted to be a scientist,” Zapata told us. But not ever yone thought she should pursue her dream. “I studied in a school with only females,” she reveals, “a Catholic school, and when I said that I wanted to do agronomy, they said, ‘This is a man’s career.’ I said, ‘No, I don’t think there are men or women’s careers, just careers.’ My father gave us opportunities and he pushed us the same way.

I didn’t see any difference between the way my brothers were treated and the way I was treated.” But she understood this wasn’t the case for most families in Caracas. “At a certain point [when] you try to challenge the boys—especially in my country—people look at you like, ‘What are you talking about? How could you even dare to challenge a man?’”

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“She was the only woman that was a professor in my department then.

She told me that they always made comments about her. She said, ‘You just ignore it. You just keep going. You are strong enough. You are going to succeed.’”

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Zapata’s work with FRB is changing the dynamic of the field. Her knowledge and experience delivers innovative scientific developments and creates a more inclusive workplace.

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