maps the trees across a city, calculates a city's leaf surface area, and derives the economic value of trees,
killing off wildlife and contributing to spectacular blooms of green algae visible in Chinese rivers. Goldenway says it can produce 0. 6 tons of organic fertilizer from a single ton of food waste,
me a sorrel leaf folded around a bit of cricket miso, beet reduction and lacto-fermented red currants.
The grasshopper smear had a pungent umami flavor that contrasted with the tart greenness of the leaf.
After securing seeds from England, Beddard managed to find two French farmers at local Parisian markets who expressed interest in The Kale Project.
 This past weekend, she successfully delivered the first batch of seeds to one of the farmers who specializes in organic produce,
Around the backside of the massive booth, a cheerful field of sunny daffodils blooms below the towering handwrought copper sculpture that mimics their graceful trumpet shape.
The co-owner of second-year exhibitor Petals Lane, Michael Phinney, estimates that it took two weeks to actually assemble the flowers for his Philadelphia-based company's tribute to the surreal Mad Hatter's tea party in Alice in wonderland
It took more than two weeks for Petals Lane to prepare its display, and four days on site to put it together.
The stipend that Petals Lane received to help with its exhibit helped with about half of those costs
plants and bulbs sold in the United states are from foreign producers: especially Colombia and Equador, according to the Society of American Florists.
high-profile clematis supplier Raymond Evison and bulb dealer Jacques Amand International both made the trip here from their home bases in the United kingdom. The netherlands,
revealing which forests store the most carbonclick to enlarge Forest trees are renowned for their ability to store large amounts of carbon dioxide in their trunk and roots.
and dropping its leaves and eventually branches. With gentler noises, however, it moves to the sounds it hears.
Brinjal, papaya, snake-gourd and black sugarcane are just a few of the crops Keshav Tavre grows on his suburban plot on the outskirts of Mumbai--all of it from a supply of untreated sewage that snakes past his land.
After complaining for years about the stench, Tavre realized that what he'd seen as waste was in fact a source of wealth.
but they have good roots growing. If successful, it could be a good model for cities that are struggling with water quantity and food desert issues.
Italian roses bloom under rooftop solar thermalfour generations of the Ciccolella family have relied on sunshine to cultivate the olives and roses on their farm in Puglia.
IPS cells are similar to embryonic stem cells, and can grow in to any organ in an animal's body
developing the recognition technology that separates the leaf from its background in order to identify it, and developing the algorithms and software.
snapping a picture of a Ginkgo biloba leaf on a white piece of paper. He explained that Leafsnap is interactive
Each leaf photograph is matched against a leaf-image library using numerous shape measurements computed at points along the leaf s outline.
The brilliant photos (created by nonprofit organization Finding Species) show each species leaf (both front and back
flower, seed, fruit and bark on a black background. They can be magnified down to the fur on the petiole,
the stalk of the leaf that attaches the blade to the stem. Currently, Leafsnap includes the 191 species of trees found in New york s Central park and Washington s Rock creek park.
By the end of this year, its library will include all 250 species found in the Northeast,
Users can play leaf identification games mark the species they ve identified to add to their collection,
Palm oil-105g Soybean â oe 103g Rapeseed â oe 95g Sunflower â oe 86g Palm oil with methane capture â oe 83g
Wheat (process fuel not specified) â oe 64g Wheat (as process fuel natural gas used in CHP) â oe 47g Corn (Maize) â oe 43g Sugar cane â oe
and buries the tree's seeds. But the bird won't go back and find every cache,
so some seeds will either become new oak trees or food for other animals. Energy and nutrients are moved through the ecosystem this way,
and a grasping big toe that was perfect for clambering branch to branch. She ate in the trees,
tobacco leaf in Germany by Wertdinger via Flickr
Monsanto: Supreme court lifts ban on genetically modified seedsin a case involving agricultural giant Monsanto, the U s. Supreme court has lifted a ban on genetically modified alfalfa seeds.
The move will likely affect the regulation of other biotech crops, including genetically modified sugar beets, and could make it easier for GM CROPS to stay on the market,
Monsanto engineered the alfalfa seeds to be resistant to the weed killing herbicide Roundup Ready,
Some Roundup Ready seeds had already been planted before the ban was enacted. Today, GM alfalfa seeds make up 1 percent of the market.
Some 95 percent of beets grown in the U s. carry the Monsanto bacterial gene that resists the herbicide glyphosate, present in Roundup Ready.
Though the verdict of the Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farm case doesn't come as much of a surprise to anyone who had been following it,
The U s. Department of agriculture (USDA) approves the sale of GM alfalfa seeds. 2005 onward: More than 5, 500 farmers plant the GM alfalfa seeds. 2006:
The Center for Food safety sues the USDA for not investigating the impact of GM seeds on the environment. 2007:
Awaiting a verdict on the environmental impact of the seeds, the U s. District court for the Northern District of California bans the sale of GM alfalfa seeds on the grounds that the USDA violated federal law by not reviewing the seeds'environmental risk.
Monsanto appeals the ruling, sending the case to the Supreme court. 2010: Monsanto wins. The Supreme court rules 7 to 1. The decision means that farmers,
growers and seed producers can have a hearing before an injunction is put in place. In other words:
once a crop goes on sale, it can't be banned without a hearing. The environmental impact statement is still pending.
the decision on GM seeds is hardly final: Nothing in the Supreme court's decision affects that ongoing process.
Nicaragua's bamboo boom has given root to what the BBC claims is the world's first bamboo bond,
Stalks from Piergiorgio Rossi. House from Laurent Gilet de Bambou Habitat. Scaffolding from Chris 73.
the century-old nut company best known for its dry roasted peanuts, is teaching sustainable farming to cashew farmers in Africa.
and not every nut that comes in is suitable. So we weed out those that aren t suitable before we process them
Every different nut is roasted a little differently. Based on where it comes from, it gets roasted differently.
Their system is a simple network of polyethylene plastic tubing with strategically placed holes that allow just enough water to drip into to the roots of crops.
using cover crops like rye to maintain year round production. This is a green space that contributes to the overall health
And nearly all of it will come from corn-and sugarcane-based ethanol. Meanwhile,  less than one-tenth of 1 percent of renewable fuels produced next year will come  from cellulosic ethanol-- the transportation fuel panacea expected to wean the U s. off of foreign oil
The U s. will continue to rely on sugarcane -and corn-based ethanol to meet the national mandate for renewable fuels in 2012.
The so-called Cellic CTEC3 enzyme--like other enzymes on the market--is used to break down biomass pulp--from corn husks
Lemnis light bulb shipper The incandescent bulb is on its way out in the European union and its future in the U s. is shaky Too bad the performance of energy-sipping LED bulbs has not been universally stellar,
as Mark Halper reported earlier this year. Nevertheless, the bulk packaging design that the marketing
and branding company Celery Design devised for shipping multiple Lemnis LED bulbs is definitely a bright idea.
and the space required to safely ship multiple bulbs, Celery dreamed up a modular system that can accommodate just one or up to six bulbs.
Each bulb is placed in a triangular package that fits snugly with others, forming a hexagon
when six are placed together. The material is recycled 100 percent card stock too. Brian Dougherty, Celery Design cofounder, says Lemnis ultimately opted to use an overseas packager that went with a different bulk shipping solution.
Celery also developed a super-smart primary packaging solution for the bulbs that could be converted into a light shade.
If successful, the smart irrigation system would give the tubers precisely the amount of water they require for optimal growth,
 Once the stovers, husks and leaves are collected and milled, they are broken further down by  enzymatic hydrolysis,
Vadan Less and Jacob Ellenberg, cofounders of Dark Rye. If it weren for the fine print,
 On the entire Dark Rye website, the Whole Foods logo is nowhere to be seen.
whose team developed Dark Rye, says the online magazine does not mean to hide that it published by Whole Foods Market.
but use inspirational storytelling to bolster the cultural ideologies of Dark Rye parent brand. Is this the future of advertising?
Dark Rye is a home for these people. I â â¢m wondering if you think this moment in media in unique.
I â â¢m a little loathed to describe Dark Rye as advertising, but at the same time from what I â â¢ve seen in the business journals,
and pursuing Dark Rye as a passion project? How do you realistically manage those two sides?
Dark Rye is currently not being tasked with being a profit center and there are no plans to make it so.
but it moving toward producing content like Dark Rye? Vadan Less: We want to tell the Whole Foods Market story
and we believe Dark Rye is part of that. And so it hasn increased the budget at all. We can do a surprising amount of production in-house
If you look at our cost producing Dark Rye and you compare it to other company campaigns,
So Dark Rye is an innovation in the field trying to answer the question: â Å How can we communicate in a relevant way with a small budget?
Concrete sidewalks block the resources that tree roots need to grow and as a result,
the roots grow higher up toward the surface. Eventually, they break through the concrete. This causes obvious problems for the landowner,
and water to percolate down into the tree roots, which in turn grow thinner, less aggressive roots than trees hemmed in by concrete do.
And as roots grow below them the rubber sidewalks rise evenly. Ten years and more than 140 installations later, the company now has three main products.
The original Rubbersidewalk, made from used vehicle tires; Terrewalk, a second-generation version which uses a less energy-consumptive manufacturing process,
What makes Soylent different from Ensure, protein shake or Plumpy'nut. Why would people choose Soylent over what is already on the shelves now?
and if you fertilize them there might be more blooms. SP: What about some of the more crazy schemes?
The focus is the company's $49 million investment in equipment and renewable energy technologies related to an upgrade of its pulp recovery boiler and related equipment.
and measuring tree trunks He filled in gaps in his data (since lidar pulses are so tiny) with data from an instrument on Terra and Aqua called MODIS
to power blasting the bark off fruit trees or water sweeping with Karchers (high-pressure, industrial strength cleaning machines) are primitive at best,
In a food forest, everything from the tree canopy to the roots is edible or useful in some way.
figure out the canes'orientation and the location of buds all to decide which canes to cut down.
In Southern California, engineers with the Spanish company Agrobot are taking on the challenge by working with local growers to test a strawberry harvester.
The new warehouse, located 15 miles from Chicago, grows more than one million pounds of greenery such as herbs
The greenery is sold to local restaurants and stores in Chicago, including Whole Foods and Green Grocer.
farmers have little incentive to spend the extra money for the special seeds. Roundup originally made by Monsanto
Mr. Anderson, the farmer, is wrestling with a particularly tenacious species of glyphosate-resistant pest called Palmer amaranth,
and Roundup Ready seeds. oeyou re having to add another product with the Roundup to kill your weeds,
and given free vegetable seeds to social housing tenants. Schools use local produce and the long-term aim is complete self-reliance for food by 2018.
and recent studies demonstrating stem cell activation and inhibition of mtor. The mtor inhibition has extended mouse mean lifespan by 33%.
Astragalus compounds have also been shown to stimulate stem cells, promote peripheral nerve regeneration in rats,
Crude extracts of Pterocarpus marsupium (Indian keno tree) bark naturally have high concentrations of pterostilbene (more than 4%by weight
Most of the research and commercial success with proanthocyanidins has come from extracts of a French maritime pine bark called Pycnogenol (65 to 75%proanthocyanidins) and various grape seed extracts (80-90%proanthocyanidins.
These diverse health benefits make Pine Bark proanthocyanidins another perfect candidate to combine with wide-spectrum herbal extracts from Astragalus membranaceus and Pterocarpus marsupium bark.
We named the final 4-herb mix Stemcell 100 because of its positive effects on adult stem cells
and sustainably using stem cells derived from trees, a study suggests. Researchers have isolated and grown stem cells from a yew tree
whose bark is a natural source of the anticancer compound paclitaxel. The development could enable the compound to be produced on a commercial scale at low cost, with no harmful by-products.
Researchers claim that using stem cells self-renewing tree cells which can be manipulated to produce large amounts of the active compound would effectively create an abundant supply of the drug.
Coskata, which is backed by General motors and other investors, uses bacteria to convert almost any organic material, from corn husks (but not the corn itself) to municipal trash, into ethanol."
trying to figure out how to crack the nut. This increases my confidence that someone will do it."
Another egg farmer, Zeng Xiaoyong, said he blended Orgacids with other ingredients like palm kernel extracts in his animal feed to improve absorptivity by the chickens.
He said he saved about 700 yuan (RM350) a day on his feed cost after switching from soy bean to the cheaper palm kernel extract for its mixture with animal feed.
or taking an elephant's trunk, hooking it up to a heart/lung machine and then hooking the other end to a machine that induced the trunk to grow by applying tension.
The growing trunk would then be wrapped automatically in pastry and passed through an oven to produce a continuous stream of fresh, delicious elephant trunk pie.
Meanwhile, on a more practical tack, food scientists in the wake of the food shortages after the Second world war often speculated on the possibility of manufacturing meat
and NASA showed periodic interest in the idea as a way of feeding astronauts on extremely long space missions.
or an outdoor greenhouse planted with tomatoes, peppers, herbs and greenery. Brightfarms: Solar panels are one way for grocery stores to optimize their otherwise unused rooftops
and a milestone on the path to the world's first burger made from stem cells.
out of stem cells we can make a product that looks like and feels and hopefully tastes like meat".
"Post is focusing on making beef burgers from stem cells because cows are among the least efficient animals at converting the food they eat into food for humans."
Each piece of muscle is made by extracting stem cells from cow muscle tissue and growing them in containers in the laboratory.
Because the burgers are made from animal stem cells, researchers could make products from more exotic animals."
After creating Breathable Foods and an energy capsule, Edwards moved on to Wikicells, an edible packaging technology.
the primary place where rainforests are still being cut down for pulp and paper,""said Rebecca Tarbotton, executive director of Rainforest Action Network,
The bacteria were able to swim towards roots, become absorbed by the roots, and then release hormones to stimulate growth.
Ed Yong also wrote about the conferenece. He said that synthetic biology is oegrander in scope than most genetic modification
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