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Author: Brian Degger
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Subject: Re: [Bricolabs] electronic waste
Rob, workshop sounds good, can you keep me in the loop :)


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Kruno Jost <udrugauke@???> wrote:

> Hi Rob!
>
> maybe this comes handy for the workshops:
>
> http://blog.noborderculture.eu/semenske-bombe/
>
>
> http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=hr&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.noborderculture.eu%2Fsemenske-bombe%2F&act=url
>
> All best
>
> Kruno
>
>
> Hi Kruno,
>
> Thanks!
>
> Looks like we will have a workshop on this in Sardinia in Spring, will
> keep you updated,
>
> Cheers! Rob
>
> Op 18-dec.-2013, om 12:23 heeft Kruno Jost <udrugauke@???> het
> volgende geschreven:
>
> Hi,
>
> According to this sources:
> http://www.hemphasis.net/Environment/environment.htm
>
> Hemp plants can even pull nuclear toxins from the soil. In fact hemp was
> planted near and around the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site to pull
> radioactive elements from the ground. ...
>
> also
> http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/pae/botany/botany_map/articles/article_10.html
>
> best
>
> Kruno
>
> 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@???>
> 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@???>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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