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20 mar/11 5

Greenduino: the greenhouse automatically open source

Greenduino is a new project created in response to strong interest charged by the posts on this blog about the 'LED lighting used to grow crops. The intention is to build a powerful tool that allows to perform scientific tests on the properties that the different frequencies of light have on the growth of crops, but not only ...
Greenduino is a mini-greenhouse automated built in a cabinet and provided with a powerful light source composed of power LEDs of different colors.
Both the logo that the name of the project is a tribute to the brain that manage each component of the greenhouse, the hardware platform open souce Arduino .

10 giu/10 0

Better organize your home garden

Gardening can be a very charming work, and like other sciences, a little bit of knowledge can not hurt to start with the right foot. Wired has published an interesting article that provides some avenues of study and helps us to organize the space at our disposal 4 proposing solutions depending on the square footage available for our green corner.
The cultivation of a garden, even small and located in an urban context, must be planned carefully so as not to waste any resource and quality products to eat. It is useful to know the basis for the production of compost with the help of worms, techniques to recycle gray water, how to combat pests and how to help friends insects, primarily bees, useful for pollination.
If you are a geek and a fan of science fiction to make work more fun you can think of this as home to a terraforming.

Tags: water , vertical farming , bees , homebrewing , beer , climate , cultivation , compost , efficient , do- to read

2 mag/10 1

Building a practical vertical garden

The vertical garden offers several advantages: easy to build, maintenance of practice, protected from invasions of animals and especially feasible in strategic locations with good exposure to the sun, without having much space available. A solution of this type may be suited to an urban environment where you often only have a balcony or a little more.
In this article I show you three different types of vertical garden that could be useful for growing flowers, herbs, vegetables or anything you like, provided they are of limited size.

Tags: vertical farming , DIY , Growing , DIY , gardening , irrigation , orchard , recycling , greenhouse effect , Earth Read

11 apr/10 5

To live in tree houses: arboreal choice

Le case sugli alberi del villaggio

A small community of people has managed to realize a dream that kept many from 'childhood to live in trees!

Located amid the woods of Mt Peeled, in Piedmont, we can define the first village "arboreal" of Italy, inhabited by 12 adults and a 1 year old girl, who had the fortune to be born and grow in this wonderful forest.

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10 mar/10 1

The eco-house self made with recycled bottles

La casa di bottiglie di Tito Ingenieri

It is certainly a monument to recycling the self-built home by Titus Engineers with about 6 million bottles and rubbish.
This Argentinean artist of Italian origin, who calls himself a self-taught sculptor, has made his immense house over 19 years in a town south of Buenos Aires, called Quilmes.
The glass bottles used for the construction, were recovered by Tito cleaning up the streets of towns in the area abandoned by gaps, and by recycling the same worn by him and those who gave him some neighboring businesses.