News tagged with community garden
Detroit's urban farms could provide a majority of produce for local residents
Transforming vacant urban lots into farms and community gardens could provide Detroit residents with a majority of their fruits and vegetables.
Nov 16, 2010 |
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How lead gets into urban vegetable gardens
One common mitigation approach is to build a raised bed and fill it with freshly composted, low-lead soil from elsewhere, right? Maybe not, according to researchers studying the mysterious case of the lead contamination found ...
Nov 01, 2010 |
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Community gardens don't impact crime rate
Urban residents across the United States have dug in to create green spaces in their neighborhoods, transforming vacant lots into colorful and crowd-pleasing community gardens. According to the American Community ...
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Sep 08, 2009 |
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New tool for visualizing the distribution of vascular plants in Belgium
The Belgian Biodiversity Platform has just released a new website "IFBL Data Portal, Explore Flora Checklists of Belgium". It aggregates about 23,000 checklists of vascular plants in Belgium, compiled since 1939 ...
May 23, 2012 |
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Commonly used pesticide turns honey bees into 'picky eaters'
Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered that a small dose of a commonly used crop pesticide turns honey bees into "picky eaters" and affects their ability to recruit their nestmates to otherwise good sources of food.
May 24, 2012 |
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Picking the brains of strangers helps make sense of online information
People who have already sifted through online information to make sense of a subject can help strangers facing similar tasks without ever directly communicating with them, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft ...
May 07, 2012 |
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Ex-AOL exec calls Facebook new 'walled garden'
(AP) -- A former AOL executive says Facebook has a lot in common with the one-time online powerhouse.
May 02, 2012 |
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New Yorkers bring fish farms to urban jungle
So you recycle, drive a small car, and try to eat organic. But what about running an eco-sustainable fish farm combined with a naturally fertilized vegetable patch in your kitchen?
Apr 27, 2012 |
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Putting plants online: Four leading botanical gardens to create first online catalog of all plants
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG); the Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG); The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew); and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) have announced plans to develop the World Flora—the first ...
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Research is ensuring stormwater systems are designed for the future
In a world of changing weather and rainfall patterns, engineers face challenges when designing stormwater management systems.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Phenology gardens track ties between weather, nature
How strange has this spring been?
Apr 20, 2012 |
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Climate change doubles cost of conserving nature
Climate change will make conservation of biodiversity, and all the associated human benefits such as clean water and clean air, more challenging and expensive, with costs increasing by more than 100 percent ...
Apr 17, 2012 |
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Migrant women adapt in economic crises
With the global recession and the food price spike of 2008, one would expect migrants to be particularly affected, but a recent University of Illinois study revealed migrants in at least one Central Illinois county to be ...
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Apr 12, 2012 |
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