Tag: plants
London’s Largest Living Wall Is Also A Sustainable Drainage System
There have been quite a few vertical forests and gardens that have made it into the news over the past few years. I hope that means greening up urban areas is becoming a real trend since there are so many positive aspects to it. This particular one is in London, and it's being called London's larges ...
Futuristic Look At Semi-Photosynthetic Humans Growing Food With Light
It's no secret that in the future we are going to have to change the way we fuel our bodies. The increase in population and the decrease in land will force us to find new things to eat. The first world grocery stores packed with tons of different foods are luxuries that people most likely won't have ...
These Robot Plants Can Learn How To Grow Just Like Your Real Plants
The future of robotics is fascinating but creepy. Robots can be programmed to 'feel emotions' (or at least look like they can) and behave very much like people. We have seen a taste of what the world of robotics might be like someday in all the sci-fi movies we've watched. But what if it turns out t ...
Glowing Plants Set To Replace Our Currently Inefficient Light Sources
I tend to get all up into things that will change the future for the better. When it comes to making our planet a more enjoyable place, I am all for it. Innovation doesn't always have to be purely technological in order to make a huge change. Even though this article is based entirely around technol ...
Spunky Urban Wall Garden Created From Recycled Plastic Soda Bottles
You don't have to spend a lot of money to create a stunning garden outside your home. There are all kinds of things found in your home that can be recycled into your garden motif. I'm talking about used aluminum foil, used tea leaves, cardboard toilet paper tubes, egg cartons, plastic bottles and mo ...
Grow A High Tech Vegetable Garden Right In Your Kitchen
Back in 2010, I wrote an article about a new technology that would allow vegetables to grow in a vending machine contraption without any sunlight. It was an awkward technology in its infancy at the time. The machine could produce lettuce (60 heads per day) which it zapped with 40 watt fluorescent li ...
Flower Art: Dainty Flower Girls Made From Pieces Of Plants & Flowers
The moment I saw these adorable flower girls, which each have a name, I knew I had to share them with you. This type of flower art would be so much fun for the kids in an elementary class to create together if they have a flower garden with different colored flowers. Each one of the images you see b ...
Leaf Carvings: Cars, Trucks & Airplanes Cut Into Leaves
There's been a lot of leaf carvings featured around the Internet over the past few months. When I first started seeing them, my brain didn't really get it. Leaves are so fragile, and I just couldn't comprehend how someone could possibly carve so delicately into a leaf without breaking it in order to ...
Leafsnap App: It Would Make Darwin Drool
Categorizing and classifying: these are the sorts of things that taxonomists are good at. While the rest of us may be able to sort our clothes by brand, our plant classification skills have really gone downhill in the last 100 years. Today, our hunting and gathering takes place in the grocery store, ...
Botanical Beauties: Stilettos, Wedges & Pumps Made From Flowers
I must confess, once in a while, I buy my shoes online. As much as I love the experience of going to a store, finding the perfect pair, trying them on, and walking around in the shoes, sometimes my schedule just doesn't allow for that treat. So the other day I found myself combing the web for a much ...
DIY Mini Gardens That Grow Inside Your Favorite Seashells
These shells remind me of the little hermit crab that lived in a shell that I brought home from the beach one day when I was six. I put him in a bowl of tap water, and he died a brutal death. I learned the hard way that saltwater animals can't survive in the water we drink. Mother Nature is a mad sc ...
The World’s First Vertical Forest: An Architectural Beauty
I'd like to introduce you to the world's first Bosco Verticale (Italian for Vertical Forest), which is being built right now in Milan. According to Christopher Woodward, a writer for the Financial Times, it's "the most exciting new tower in the world."
This vertical forest will span across two to ...
Fascinating Tree Bark From Around The World
Trees are truly one of Mother Nature's many miracles. If you do a quick Google search for tree facts, you'll find some very interesting information that you probably never knew before, or at least I did.
Back in 2009, I remember seeing the Redwood tree on the cover of National Geographic. That pi ...
Plants vs Zombies plus Zombatar – Halloween Avatar on Twitter
One thing I love to do is play casual games. My brother knows this and asked me to try out a game that they are currently going nuts over. It's called Plants Vs Zombies. A mob of zombies is about to invade your home, and your only defense is an arsenal of zombie-zapping plants. Think fast and p ...
Grow your own: Peppers!
There is a rebirth of home grown produce that is spreading across the UK... people are really digging into (get it?) growing their own fruit and veg.  I must admit I am starting to become one of them!  So I am going to offer my insights into how you can grow your own stuff  starting with the firs ...
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