Hemp plants can even pull nuclear toxins from the soil. In fact hemp was
radioactive elements from the ground. ...
> Hi Brian,
>
> Thanks for this pointer, I'll go and find out more and get back to you,
>
> Cheers! Rob
>
> Op 17-dec.-2013, om 14:28 heeft Brian Degger <brian.degger@???
> <mailto:brian.degger@gmail.com>> het volgende geschreven:
>
>> 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@??? <mailto:kranenbu@xs4all.nl>> 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@??? <mailto:brian.degger@gmail.com>> 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@??? <mailto:udrugauke@gmail.com>> 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
>>>> <http://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@???
>>>> <mailto:gabriel.menotti@gmail.com>>
>>>>
>>>> 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@???
>>>> <mailto:udrugauke@gmail.com>>:
>>>> > 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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