Rob,
there are lots of bioaccumulators out there. Mushrooms, algaes.
http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/ual2012/2010/06/21/olympic-terra-cleansing-soils-with-flowers/
is
a nice project
as for actually being bioindicators of contaminated soils....I too, would
like to know if this is possible
cheers
Brian


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Rob van Kranenburg <kranenbu@???>wrote:

> hi kruno, brian,
>
> looks amazing!
>
> i’m trying to find some info on plants and pollution. A pollution sensor
> says: yes or no this is a polluted location with this or that, is there
> information about certain plans or herbs that like to eat that pollution so
> we give more then just the pollution data?
>
> salut, rob
>
>
> Op 17-dec.-2013, om 13:52 heeft Brian Degger <brian.degger@???> het
> volgende geschreven:
>
> love the spindle cases.... prob great for tiny petridish incubators :)
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Kruno Jost <udrugauke@???> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> we overlapped urban gardening with upcycling and created sprout
>> containers out of the cd spindle boxes, used old computer cases to plant
>> salad and small citrus tree, speaker cases and old floppy disks to create
>> holders for small kitchen plants like sage or lavander. CD spindle cases
>> are used for hanging gardens too where mostly we planted parsley. All in
>> all, a good addition for a healthy diet for multimedia centre inhabitants
>> of MMC Ljubljana for coming winter :)
>>
>> photos here:
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/gentlejunk/sets/72157635279361319/
>>
>>
>> https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.623113361079149.1073741831.618548328202319&type=3
>>
>> We served home made ghee, amaranth and sprouts at opening. crackers are
>> bought cheeply at local supermarket :)
>> all in all, we had a nice group of people working and imagining possible
>> futures, but most important we had urban gardeners, designers, hacklabers
>> and biohackers working with other folk.
>>
>> We were concerned on toxicity of plastic we use for upcycling. looking at
>> some resources we found out that cd spindle cases are perfectly ok,
>>
>> http://www.novi-svjetski-poredak.com/2012/03/08/koliko-je-opasna-plastika-pojma-nemate/
>> when we compared with yoghurt or cola/juice/water containers, strangely
>> cd spindle cases won by large as non toxic plastics.
>>
>> All best
>>
>> Kruno
>>
>>
>> Hi Kruno,
>> I am from metareciclagem (www.metareciclagem.org) in Brazil. I am very
>> interested in knowing more about what you are going to develop there.
>> I work with smallholders in the Hinterland. The link between e-waste and
>> agriculture interests me greatly.
>>
>> best,
>> o2
>>
>>
>> 2013/10/22 Gabriel Menotti <gabriel.menotti@???>
>>
>>> Oi, Kruno! First thing that comes to mind is Jennifer Gabrys work:
>>>
>>> http://www.digitalculture.org/books/digital-rubbish/
>>>
>>> best!
>>> Menotti
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2013/10/22 Kruno Jost <udrugauke@???>:
>>> > Dear Bricos,
>>> >
>>> > Maja an me are working on series of workshops in Ljubljana and are
>>> looking
>>> > for links about e-waste/computer waste and its upcycling/recycling. We
>>> are
>>> > interested in toxic element - especially in plastic but also other
>>> > materials. We are preparing an idea with fine name Geeks Garden where
>>> we
>>> > would use computer paraphernalia as kits for growing plants. It will
>>> help a
>>> > lot to get some of your fine ideas.
>>> >
>>> > Sincerely,
>>> >
>>> > Kruno
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
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