March 2012
Newly Discovered Plant Bows Down and Buries Its... →
kp777:
From the article: A botanist has discovered a new species of plant in eastern Brazil whose branches bend down upon bearing fruit and deposit seeds on the ground, often burying them in a covering of soft soil or moss. This trick is an example of geocarpy, a rare adaptation to survival in harsh or short-lived environments with small favorable patches. The adaptation ensures seedlings...
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Design guidelines for sustainable solutions
neoprimitivismo:
The issue now is to give some clearer directions on how to orient a system towards a more sustainable configuration, i.e. how to conceive solutions to transform a given system into a more sustainable one.In this paragraph some design guidelines (or rather some, system design guidelines) will be outlined. These guidelines, synthesise the results of several previous research...
Carrots in a bucket
adventuresincreativereuse:
A while back I blogged a video I found on Youtube of this guy in the Sacramento area planting his carrots in 5 gallon buckets. After a fairly successful year last year with my mutli-color carrots I obviously wanted to grow them again this year but I wanted to grow more with very little space to do it in. The buckets seemed like the answer to my problems.
Today I...
