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He described it as complex with nectar from a variety of mints from Lurie Garden in Millennium Park and linden trees in Grant Park.
#New Weedkiller may be causing mass tree deaths in U s. White pine trees, a species under assault by Imprelis.
is causing mass tree deaths in a number of vulnerable species across the US#UPI reports:
head of the Michigan Nursery and Landscape Association, said she has seen not such widespread tree death since the emerald ash borer ravaged ash trees.
My trees are dying, whats up?##said Mark Underwood, a Michigan lawn care specialist. Weve never experienced anything like this.#
#The herbicide is suspected of killing Norway spruce and white pine trees en mass all over the country. According to UPI, even Dupont seems to be fessing up#the company is advising that the weedkiller not be sprayed near the trees.
I only hope that Dupont has some grasp of the irony here: Its come up with,
as far as I know, the only environmentally friendly#herbicide that literally causes mass tree deaths.
and she sat to catch up with friends over coffee. In another corner, a crowd listened as a university nutritionist explained how to safely freeze
#Swedenâ##s hotel of treehouses Tree Hotel in Sweden Swedens unusual Tree Hotel does standardized away with rooms
A variety of architectural firms and the Tree Hotel partnered up to design distinct and unusual spaces all built in trees except for the ground-touching sauna.
which allows visitors to live in harmony with nature amongst the trees? Well, with the help of a group of well known designers and architects, we have turned now the idea into a reality.
rather than to cut the trees for industrial use. This Boreal forest is one of the Earths lungs.
what the tree#means to us humans, both historically and culturally. Rooms include the Birds Nest, the UFO and the Mirrorcube, just part of the 25 different architectural flights of fancy planned for the hotel.
And if you really like coffee...Harvard researchers found that drinking 6 cups a day reduces your risk of developing advanced prostate cancer by 59 percent. 1. HEART DISEASE Why youre at risk:
#Leafsnap â#New App Recognizes Trees Leafsnap mobile app did wondered you ever what type of tree was nearby
In seconds, it returns a likely species name, high-resolution photographs and information on the trees flowers, fruit, seeds and bark.
and share their findings with the apps growing database to help map the population of trees one mobile phone at a time.
and the CEO says Apple plans to almost double the 3, 700 trees on the property.
#Inventing the Rocking chair Tree Futurist Thomas Frey: On Tuesday evening we had packed a audience at the Davinci Institute to discuss the future of micro farming.
I mentioned the idea of tree-jacking where we will someday be able to jack into trees
One example I gave was the rocking char tree. Wouldnt it be cool if we could cause a tree to grow so all of the branched grew into perfectly shaped rocking chairs?
So, come harvest time, we just climb up the tree and cut down all the rocking chairs?##Plant Intelligence So how smart are plants?
And, can we make them smarter? Plants like the Venus Flytrap demonstrate a small amount of intelligence
will it be possible to train#a tree to have its branches grow into the shape of end tables, coffee tables, chairs, or rocking chairs.
we can walk up to the tree and harvest the rocking chairs by cutting them down. This will be similar to harvesting apples or cherries.
Shengyang province, moulds branches into shape while the tree is still growing. He uses elm trees
which are pliant and do not break easily. Mr. Wu, whos in his 60s, says it takes him about five years to grow a tree chair, from saplings to the finished article.
As the chair grows, he constantly trims and guides it into shape before the chair is harvested finally.
It was reported that Mr. Wu has one tree chair in his home, which he harvested in September 2006,
will admittedly be used mostly for buying cups of coffee and snatched lunchtime sandwiches, but when Oranges head of mobile payments, Jason Rees, calls it the beginning of a new order#,hes not wrong.
#Argentine Farmer Makes Giant Guitar With 7, 000 Trees Extreme guitar tribute to Argentinian farmers wife.
000 cypress and eucalyptus trees to create a giant guitar in memory of his late wife, Graciela,
so the farmer just had to do it himself#Planting the tree guitar required a family effort.
and the farm hands would plant trees in those exact spots, after which they re-formed the line in another position and more trees were planted.
Most of the guitar, including the body and star-shaped hole were designed using cypress trees, as for the strings the bluish tones of eucalyptus trees were used.
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#CDC Confirms Lemon Eucalyptus oil as Effective as DEET Mosquitoes can be a huge problem. Its easy to say youll never use DEET,
that is until you come down to South carolina. My home state boasts mosquitoes that rival your house pet in size and stature.
Oil of lemon eucalyptus active ingredient: p-menthane 3, 8-diol (PMD), a plant-based repellent,
when oil of lemon eucalyptus was tested against mosquitoes found in the US it provided protection similar to repellents with low concentrations of DEET.
Oil of lemon eucalyptus is plant-based repellent oil made from leaves of Eucalyptus citriodora. Concerns with DEET The most serious concerns about DEET are with the central nervous system:
#Top 10 Photos of the Week An imagination is a terrible thing to waste on trees,
Did you know that tigers could climb trees? Neither did the chicken...Tragically hilarious...The other side of the fence is always greener,
#and you thought walnuts came from trees...Best friends forever...Life is full of challenges, but we have no clue
But todays parks are often little more than freshly cut grass and trimmed trees, with a playground thrown into one corner for the kids.
boiled down to the bare essentials of grass trees, sidewalks, playgrounds, and benches#nothing memorable, with little to inspire the mind.
Visitors to the park will be able to take leisurely strolls through the knotty pines flower beds,
and maple trees, reading the various gems of wisdom as they go. Much like the hallowed halls of a library, Poetry Park will be steeped in silence,
Carefully positioned among trees and grass, individual displays will be folded into the florascape in ways to help inspirations breath.
but do not emit the same type of odor or ash. In December, three judges from the appellate court ruled that the FDA could regulate the products as tobacco products and not as drugs.
Buildings, trees, and mountains change very little from one day to the next. Driving down a street we typically dont worry about trees falling onto the road.
Only rarely do they undergo a radical transformation quickly. The earths orbit around the sun, the speed of light, the changing of the seasons, the schedule of tides, the frequency of quartz crystals,
Coffee costs rose 3. 5 percent. Separately, the Federal reserve said U s. factories produced more consumer goods,
#The primary jailbreak apps store, Cydia#named after the insect that bores into apple trees#now earns about $10 million in annual revenue and counts about 4. 5 million active weekly users hunting
The bottle is made from switch grass, pine bark, corn husks and other materials. Ultimately, Pepsi plans to also use orange peels, oat hulls, potato scraps and other leftovers from its food business.
which looks like a shoe tree, is slipped simply into the shoe and turned on at the mains before blitzing the smell awa. y The makers claim the average person produces up to half a pint of sweat per foot each day,
The device can be inserted into your footwear as you would a normal shoe tree and a simple press of a button starts a 45-minute treatment cycle.
Regular shoe trees are made usually of cedar wood which helps limit some foul smells by absorbing moisture and odor.
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and as an 8. 4 oz can of Red Bull contains about the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee (80 mg),
Most mainstream energy drinks actually contain about half the caffeine of a similar size cup of coffeehouse coffee,
In fact, young adults getting coffee from popular coffeehouses are getting about twice as much caffeine as they would from a similar size energy drink.#
And there is another difference between coffee and energy drinks, which are marketed often toward athletes. If youre a 16-year-old who just came out of football practice,
youre not going to have three cups of hot coffee. But you might have three energy drinks,
#Unraveling The Secrets of Antarcticaâ##s Fossilized Forests The Fossilized Tree Rings Dont Lie It may be hard to believe,
#These fossils proved to be stunted remains of bushes of beech. At only three to five million years old, they were some of the last plants to have lived on the continent before the deep freeze set in.
Wait, why is there a tree in the living room?#.#In some cultures teamwork is important. In the U s. it puts you into an entirely different tax code...
Further the trees killed from drought rot in the coming years will release over 5 billion tons of CO2#nearly equivalent to the amount of carbon released by the US in 2009 from the burning of fossil fuels.
and get more exact numbers on the trees that are left. However, they dont seem to be optimistic.
And of course there are also the species who call the rainforests home#their habitat is disappearing from drought in the same way that logging industries are cutting down wide swaths of trees.
and 5%thought that trees which dont lose their leaves during winter are called Carnivores. But wait, it doesnt stop there. 6%of British adults thought strawberries grew on trees,
so it should come as no surprise that 25%of British kids did not know what a mouse looked like.
Fagan also recommended a consumer boycott of Amazonian mahogany demand for which fuels deforestation of tribal territories.
the Turkish newspaper Todays Zaman reported: The Oriental darter is a species that once nested around Lake Amik in Hatay;
which literally means orange tree. In the early 16th century, the word orange gradually started being used to not only refer to the fruit
and skinned on private property near Paso Robles. After many hours of cooking, it tasted like pulled pork.
not just the trees If you have to rasterize an image in order to analyze it, any sort of correlation will take a long time.
By compiling foodpairing trees#its technology can identify vegetable or seafood ingredients that reinforce the flavor of different meats,
and a coffee and tea importer in New york. He sees profits in selling the idea of environmentally friendly farming to the estimated 50 million Americans ages 25 to 60 focused on lifestyle,
where he could be buried with his ancestors in a cemetery shaded by oak trees that overlooked the Aegean sea.
a breakfast of goat s milk, wine, sage tea or coffee, honey and bread. Lunch was almost always beans (lentils, garbanzos), potatoes, greens (fennel, dandelion or a spinachlike green called horta) and whatever seasonal vegetables their garden produced;
And coffee, once said to stunt growth, was associated now with lower rates of diabetes, heart disease and, for some, Parkinson s.
and meat five times a month, drank on average two to three cups of coffee a day
#Parikos was nursing a mug of coffee. Sunlight sifted in through the window shades; the waves of the nearby Aegean could be heard barely over the din of breakfast.
and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food.#
and is undertaken typically in ovens, in hot ashes, or on hot stones. Its results can also be facilitated by invention#14.8.
In a recent interview, Coco (her real name! took time away from her chocolate creations to answer a few pertinent questions about creating healthy chocolates
Coco@Coco-Licious. com,(303) 817-4145, www. Coco-Licious. com (operational by Oct 1st or before.
That did not daunt Ms. Bruno, now an executive at Peet s Coffee. I had grown up using Macs
and an insulated coffee thermos. Mr. Zarate fared no better at one quarterly meeting for employees.
or artificial Christmas trees for a live one, is exemplary at some level of how we relate to plants.
until entire trees and groves ripen more or less in synchrony. Another example of a plant using smell is how a parasitic plant called dodder finds its food.
For example, if a maple tree is attacked by bugs, it releases a pheromone into the air that is picked up by the neighboring trees.
This induces the receiving trees to start making chemicals that will help it fight off the impending bug attack.
So on the face of it, this is definitely communication. But I think we also have to ask the question of intent
Are the trees communicating, meaning is attacked that tree warning its surrounding ones? Or could it be more subtle?
Maybe it makes more sense that the attacked branch is communicating to the other branches of the same tree in an effort for self survival,
while the neighboring trees, well they re just eavesdropping and benefiting from the signal. There are also other examples of this type of communication.
For example a very recent study showed that plants also communicate through signals passed from root to root.
using the heat absorbed from your pants pocket. 2. The New Coffee Soon, coffee isn t going to taste like coffee#at least not the dark,
ashy roasts we drink today. Big producers want uniform taste, and a dark roast makes that easy:
Improvements like these have allowed roasters to make coffee that tastes like Seville oranges or toasted almonds or berries,
coffee will lighten, and dark roasts may just become a relic of the past. 3. Analytical Undies Your spandex can now subtly nag you to work out.
Each apartment will be equipped with a copious balcony specially designed to hold around 900 small trees and other plants.
#but warns that the overall energy required to construct a building that would support both trees and the wet weight of soil#places some serious question marks over its overall sustainability.
#Man-made noise disrupts plant growth The Pinon pine could suffer from high levels of artificial noise.
trees and animals nearby, say scientists. Such noise may be harmful to some plants because of the longterm impact it has on animals that pollinate flowers
The study, probed the noise preferences of different animals that feed on the seeds of the pinon pine tree.
#Planting trees in the Mongolian Desert to fight dangerous dust storms in Seoul A nomadic family outside their ger (yurt) in the Gobi desert near Choir, Mongolia.
since then to plant trees in Mongolia, hoping to improve both the lives of nomadic desert herders there
Future Forest, has recruited Korean and Chinese students to help plant some 4 million trees in an effort to prevent the eastward spread of the deserts,
Korean activist Dong Kyun Park has also been raising money in Korea to plant trees in Mongolia,
efforts that Grossman says has inspired high-level government talk of reforesting denuded areas#in Mongolia and the establishment of a new nursery for native tree species in the capital city of Ulan bator.
As the cost of staple foods and happy indulgences like coffee continue to rise, now is a good time to explore ways to save money on food with DIY smarts.
and nutritionally rich. 7) If you drink coffee, brew it yourself. Buy freshly roasted whole-bean coffee,
and grind it and brew it at home. You don t need a thousand-dollar espresso machine to enjoy good coffee, either:
espresso drinks aren t inherently superior to a well-done cup of drip. And a cup brewed at home (perhaps packed in a thermos to carry to work) is cheaper
#The chikilidae s home in long-ignored tropical forests now faces drastic change under programs to cut trees,
#Tree Bench portable bench turns any tree into a shady seat Tree Bench Aandeboom, the Dutch team that brought us the clever P-Tree urinal,
designed this clever pop-up Tree Bench. This quirky design takes the traditional park bench to another level by supporting it with a set of industrial straps,
allowing it to hover over the ground while providing space for plants and grass to thrive beneath it.
and moved to another tree, making it a useful solution for temporary outdoor seating. The design is also a brilliant way to make the most of the sunny spots in a park all year round,
Both versions have caster wheels and solid maple butcher block tops, that can serve as food preparation areas.
#Modified turntable reads tree-rings as music Now you can listen to trees literally. Aside from the gentle rustling of leaves in the breeze,
or the creaking of a bough in a winter gale, a tree s character may best be described as the strong and silent type#but,
For nearly a century, dendrochronologists have practiced reading tree-rings for clues about the lives of trees.
But now, thanks to a special turntable designed to read tree-rings like tracks on an LP,
a tree s biography can now actually be heard as its discography (video after jump) YEARS from Bartholomã¤us Traubeck on Vimeo.
which is capable of digitally reading tree-slices and translating them into surprisingly moving piano music.
Tree-rings, of course, considered to be annual records of a tree s growth rate #which in turn offer clues to the hardships
and fruitful periods experienced over the life of the tree. A description of Traubeck s project
A tree s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music based on the year ring data.
but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently. Like any great composition, the sounds produced from reading tree-rings are both aesthetically beautiful while at the same time a strangely ethereal glimpse into the otherwise silent life of our planet s most essential organisms.
And likewise, when presented in such a visceral way, it becomes difficult to imagine Earth s pristine forests as merely places where life can thrive,
Turning public trees into fruit-bearing trees Money doesn t grow on trees, but that doesn t stop a group of renegade agriculturists from turning public trees into a provider for bountiful harvest by grafting fruit-bearing branches.
Meet the Guerilla Grafters What makes them guerrillas is the fact that this grafting is illegal.
people think of fruit trees as kind of a nuisance.##That s both because of the mess they might create in the form of rotten fruit
The Guerrilla Grafters address the first two problems by making sure each grafted tree has a steward#who can monitor
#Anyone who has an apple tree growing in their yard knows how difficult it is to grow one that is worthy of eating straight off the tree.
#-Emo Philips..7.)Top 10 Photos May 7, 2011 An imagination is a terrible thing to waste on trees,
Self-lighting trees from California s Glowing Plant Lab illuminate the numerous clean wide promenades.
After the Chaos by Bob Verschueren Spruce and ash trees Arte Sella, Malga Costa, Italy, 2010 Listen#by Olga Ziemska Plaster hand casts and locally reclaimed birch logs Oronsko
, Poland, 2003 Sandworm by Marco Casagrande Willow and sand Wenduine, Belgium, 2012 Lonely Tree, Lonely People, The Tree Hugger Project by Agnieszka Gradzik and Wiktor
fabric Parker Creek, Mono County, California, 2000 Organic Highway by Mikael Hansen Sycamore poles Langeland, Denmark, 1995 Art-Eggcident by Henk Hofstra
writers had missed the town for the lovely trees (and bike paths and mountain views) unfairly reducing Boulder to a playground where smug eco-liberals puffed legalized marijuana
and keeping streetlights beneath tree level, and he cautioned them about suburban developers,#oedirty industries,
His cofounders decided to put company headquarters in Thousand Oaks California, but Caruthers kept a lab in Boulder.
because they had the foresight to plant lots of trees, welcome a university and federal science labs, buy up lots of parkland,
and plow into trees or veer into traffic as they swat at their kids. They have blind spots, leg cramps, seizures, and heart attacks.
spill coffee in their laps, and flip over their cars. Of the ten million accidents that Americans are in every year,
The ride takes him over surface streets and freeways, old salt flats and pine-green foothills, across the gusty blue of San francisco bay,
It may confuse the shadow of a tree for the edge of the road, or reflected headlights for lane markers.
Holly read nothing but safe stories of settlers on prairies for the rest of her teenage years,
to put down that coffee or phone, and refocus.##oeit could be 20 seconds; it could be 10 seconds,
Is it possible to add a water extracting ground spike next to every plant or tree in our garden?
Terrain, rock, tree, and obstacle mapping Hybrid lifecycle charting Chlorophyll damage detection Ground cover profiling Wind profile
Much of the work in this industry will evolve around the following tree phases of development.
Eye forest, yet most of us can t see the forest for the trees!..Could there possibly be a better reason why you shouldn t text and drive?..
I ve been writing about Second life since 2003, first as Linden Lab s#oeembedded journalist,#then as a Gigaom editor and for a book,
While Linden Lab decided SL wasn t a game, its users were primarily using it for social game activity like roleplaying, virtual fashion, collaborative sandbox building,
Linden Lab learned too late that companies need to evolve their product based on what it s actually used for not
Linden Lab envisioned an entire ecosystem of user-generated content. Yet many VCS refused to fund it because,
SL also had its own virtual currency, the Linden Dollar which was exchangeable with real world currency;
And without new users spending Linden Dollars, landowners can t afford to keep paying monthly land tier fees
Linden Lab is struggling to find alternate revenue streams. As a general takeaway, it s better to diversify a product s revenue model
Virtual worlds still entice SL cofounder Philip Rosedale (who stepped down as Linden Lab CEO a few years ago) just launched a new startup, High fidelity,
web-based 3d virtual world seemingly designed to specifically avoid all of Linden Lab s early mistakes and pitfalls.
It may finally be ready for the rest of the world Linden Lab will soon introduce a version of SL that runs on Oculus Rift, the widely admired virtual reality headset (which just secured $15 million in funding.
and large amounts of beetle-killed trees have created#oeperfect storm#conditions for multiple wildfires to rage across the State.
Some of this can be attributed to factors such as beetle-kill trees, an increasingly mobile society, urbanization of mountain communities, etc.
Extinguishing a fire under several layers of tree canopy will also be a challenge. Every kind of tree will likely require a different navigation strategy,
and some densely covered grounds may be entirely unreachable until it s too late. Operating drones day and night through inclement conditions like wind
plazas and buildings made from hybrid composite materials that include engineered animal tissues, living trees, and lightweight manufactured screens, all manicured like a fantastic topiary.
Cicadas, locusts, crickets, dragonflies, flies are spared not either. While two billion people are perfectly fine with eating insects,
which the farmers then plant trees. And in the shadows cast by the trees, they grow fruits and vegetables.
Greening projects are also succeeding in Mali Tanzania, and Ethiopia. Reij argues that these limited successes can spread to other#oedrylands#in Africa.
said Kevin Morishige, a former engineer at Cisco, Hewlett-packard and Palm. LCD s dominance is already under threat from lighter Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDS) that don t need backlighting,
Corning s Willow Glass However, some manufacturers are already creating lighter and more flexible glass.
It is also now promoting Willow Glass which can be as thin as a sheet of paper
Initially, Willow will be used as a coating for products like solar panels, but it is expected eventually to create curved products.
Apple s iwatch concept A key selling point for Willow is more efficient production which involves so-called roll-to-roll manufacturing,
But the commercialization of Willow as a flexible product is some way off, James Clappin, who heads Corning s glass technology group
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