Barcelona’s Liceu opera opened on Monday for its first concert since mid-March. The audience – 2,292 plants. The Gran Teatre del Liceu filled its 2,292 seats with plants for a performance by the UceLi Quartet, which it called a prelude to its 2020-2021 season. The string quartet serenaded its leafy audience with Giacomo Puccini’s “Crisantemi” in […]
If you’re looking for a fun project to do in your backyard here’s an idea for you. You can make this happen with minimal requirements and materials. Parents are creating pole bean teepee for their kids to play in and it looks super cool. A living bean teepee in the garden is a magical place to teach children about gardening, […]
A restaurant in the Netherlands, Mediamatic ETEN, has found a solution to stay open and serve its customers while enforcing social distancing. Its diners are seated inside individual greenhouses. This measure is only in the trial phase, but the vegan eatery in the Oosterdok neighborhood of Amsterdam hopes to make the capsules official with permission […]
World Naked Gardening Day is the one day of the year when you can do your gardening work completely naked. The first Saturday in May is the date for this event, and this year that is May 2nd. While you might get a little dirty, the intention is good, clean, fun in the sun, and […]
In a botanical sense, there are many plants most people consider vegetables that are actually fruits. The most famous example is probably the tomato. Its status as a fruit or a vegetable was so controversial that in 1893 the Supreme Court had to weigh in and settle the issue. What it comes down to isn’t sweetness, but seeds. […]
Our present and future climate is changing. Combined with the effects of pollution & a rising population – respiratory diseases such as the bird flu & coronavirus may become a seasonal occurrence (like the flu & common cold). While it is too early for studies to confirm these predictions, the European Respiratory Society is concerned, […]
A team of elite firefighters took upon themselves the secret mission to rescue the priceless Wollemi Pines from Australia’s relentless bushfires. And they succeeded! They have come up with a new plan to save the ancient and incredibly rare Wollemi pines that were threatened by fire. Only about 200 of the pines, also known as “dinosaur trees” […]
Can nature win the war on climate change? Maybe with a little help from humanity. Using old reconditioned military planes, we can plant one billion trees a year. The planes will “tree bomb” deteriorated forests that have been devastated by commercial logging. The proposed program uses some of that fastest growing trees in the world, […]
Incredible photos have revealed the resilience of the nation’s wildlife as bushfires ravage Australia. The new life has offered a sense of hope in an otherwise emotional time for many coping with the impacts of the fires. Two photographers on the New South Wales Central Coast, Mary Voorwinde and Murray Lowe captured the images that […]
Wildfires are a part of the natural rhythms of Australia’s environment. But scientists haven’t seen anything like this before. The bushfires in Australia are an unseen catastrophe. The country is grappling with some of the worst wildfires in its history. At least 12 million acres of land have already been scorched and more than 100 blazes […]
