In this article a monk in Fukushima said "We plant sunflowers, field
mustard, amaranthus and cockscomb, which are all believed to absorb
radiation," .
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/19/us-japan-disaster-sunflowers-idUST
RE77I0PG20110819

Suzon

From: Kruno Jost <udrugauke@???>
Reply-To: Bricolabs <brico@???>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 12:23:06 +0100
To: Bricolabs <brico@???>
Subject: Re: [Bricolabs] electronic waste



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, I¹ll 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!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> i¹m 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.623113361079149.1073741831.61854
>>>>> 8328202319&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@???>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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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