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David’s bottle garden: a story that’s been going on for 50 years
23/05/2013Posted on: News
In the history of bottles 1960 is an important year, it’s the period that saw the commercial boom of plastic bottles, which began to overtake their glass counterparts, many of which were left unsold. David Latimer, a garden enthusiast from Cranleigh, in England, decided to use one of them and grow a small garden inside it. He probably didn’t imagine at the time that those plants would have survived for over fifty years, and from 1972 on without even being watered.
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“I care” - Grow the Planet celebrates Earth Day. Join in!
18/04/2013Posted on: Urban gardens
We’re all lovers of Nature and its beauty. We all care about planet Earth.
This is why Grow the Planet calls everybody to join in the official United Nations Earth Day, scheduled for April 22nd, which focuses on saving our environment and ecosystems.
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Buongiorno a tutti. Ma si può, eventualmente, scrivere io ci tengo graficamente su una foto del mio orto? Mi piacerebbe partecipare, ma purtroppo sono fuori casa fino a domani e fare una foto del mio orto al momento, con il cartello, mi è impossibile, ma di foto ne ho a bizzeffe... se mi dite che posso anche scriverlo graficamente, partecipo molto volentieri ^^ grazie
34 days ago
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From an abandoned crane to a vegetable garden: the Time Circus floating project
17/04/2013Posted on: Urban gardens
Walking along the canals of the Bonapartedok, in the port of Antwerp, you may come across an abandoned crane barge, anchored in front of the MAS Museum. Take a close look at it, because what you’ll see isn’t exactly what you’d expect to find; instead of a heap of rusty old iron you’ll discover a flourishing floating vegetable garden.
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Civic agriculture: how to get started. Some useful suggestions from a valid experience
Martina Sabbadini and Silvia Venturelli
09/04/2013Posted on: News
Cultivating the soil and relationships: these are the activities that form the basis of the civic and social agricultural experience we’re creating with the social agricultural cooperative Cavoli Nostri, at Feletto, just outside Turin, Italy, a reality created within the ambit of a charitable institute known as the Cottolengo.
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Peppers and zucchini on Mars… an idea launched by the Chinese!
04/04/2013Posted on: News
Growing vegetables in space. It sounds like a bizarre idea found in some novel from the golden age of science fiction, but, according to voices in China, nothing could be more real… and technically possible. Deng Yibing, deputy director of the Chinese Astronaut Research and Training Centre in Beijing, talked about the project to Xinhua, the principal Chinese news agency.
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Sono per aprire nuovi orizzonti io, ma se stiamo cercando sempre con maggior desiderio i prodotti a Km zero, i cinesi vanno a coltivare ad "anni luce" dalla Terra? Che paradossi!!!
51 days ago
A self sustainable system, fixing CO2 with a positive sum of oxigen. Why not adopting it on planet earth also? Have a look at this interesting TED: http://blog.ted.com/2009/06/15/jane_poynter_li/
50 days ago
Ma la temperatura media di marte è -15° C come fanno a crescere peperoni e melanzane che temono il gelo?
48 days ago
