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AquaSchool created with the intention of providing educational services, related studies and sustainable use of aquatic organisms and environments natural or artificial harbor them, making use of current computer technologies for distance learning.
In this way everyone has access to a personal computer connected to the Internet, can take a course in freedom, freed from the need to go into a classroom located in a given space and time stipulated.

In fact, as a student to follow a distance course with the computer has the following significant advantages:

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Eat seasonal vegetables contributes not only to reduce environmental pollution (and less use of pesticides compared to that grown in the greenhouse), but also to provide the body with greater quantities of fiber, vitamins and minerals than the off-season. For this we created this special guide (see table below), a simple consultation, where you can find out in which months of the year there are different types of vegetables.

Cip Garden offers an interesting calendar free gardening classes held at the garden center.

Here are the details of the arguments divided by month.

February
-Saturday 12 - 14.30
Care and maintenance of bonsai
by Crespi Bonsai

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Did you ever wonder what she looked like a plant that you may often feel appoint?

Or what is the scientific name of the Dandelion, or even need the name of a plant in English, or French?

Now, thanks to the tools made ​​available by Project Dryades you can find in the vegetable kingdom as a key using the Latin name, the common, the family membership or linguistic area, with area-search site plans www.dryades.eu

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To better understand how to grow them to help get an idea of ​​how indicative are made and how to perform vital functions in plants.

stoma on a tomato plant

The vascular system

This set of "pipes" allows the circulation of the sap and nutrients through the plant.
E 'consists of two distinct parts:

The Xilema is a set of plant tissues which transports the water and the substances dissolved in it.
Contains blood vessels (called tracheae and tracheids) through which water flows yet for a hundred meters (think for example the redwoods), solar energy and the phenomenon of evaporation during perspiration.

The Phloem, also called tissue or cribroso book, is the fabric which transports the sap from the area in which it is produced to that in which will serve the plant or MEP accumulation.
The movement of the lymph is through these organs molecular pumps, at a rate that varies from 10 to 100 centimeters per hour.

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In collaboration with the Bachelor of Science in Herbal Medicine of the University of Pisa will be held Friday, October 23, 2009 at the technical meeting attendance free medicinal and aromatic plants, from harvesting to finished product.

Head: Prof. Anthony Hall Welcome, Interdepartmental Center for Agro-Environmental Research "Enrico Avanzi", via Old Navy 6 - San Piero a Grado, Pisa.
Coordinates: (43 ° 40 '49 "N - 10 ° 20' 46" E);

How to reach the venue:
http://www.avanzi.unipi.it/comunicazione/come_raggiungerci/come_raggiungerci.htm

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And ... as often happens in these cases both start hand in hand towards the crowded shores of uselessness.

After the dramatic Hydroponic Garden , behold here a new gadget dedicated to the cultivation of aromatic plants and flowers.

Would you have to expose your guests to the critical eyes of ordinary jars of earth? Maybe you would like to germinate in old, outdated, aesthetically unfulfilling blocks of peat, rockwool or other practical materials?

Not at all. The trend is that the object of design, so spend your 35 pounds (40 euros, plus shipping) and buy yourself this object somewhere between the toaster and electric kettle , which, thanks to an advanced technology designed even by NASA (ie hydroponics) will allow you to germinate your seeds (not included).

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It 'was inaugurated on February 23 a new weblog site Greenpeace , entirely dedicated to hi-tech development.
A web platform where you can learn but also participate actively. The objective is that there are electronic products on the market more sustainable, and Italy has now finally a system of waste collection hi-tech.
Greenpeace urges cybernauts to write immediately to the Minister of the Environment and to send a complaint photos of electronic waste abandoned.

In our country the system of management of electronic waste - hazardous and fastest growing - has not taken off. Because of industry lobbyists, political changes at the top, and a complicated legislative process, Italy finds itself with a system not yet joined the scheme, despite the many years behind the European directives of 2002. Read more ...

Phytoremediation in aquaculture systems: Preliminary studies on breeding of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in Veneto
of Borin M. , Tocchetto D.

Introduction

In Italy most of the farmed fish species such as trout, eels, sea bass, sea bream, but also catfish and sturgeon, are from farms to intensive type. Is of fundamental importance in intensive administration of type power artificial, with formulations suitable for the species farmed and able to optimize the amount of product distributed with the growth of the fish. Read more ...

When it comes to Hydroponic, perhaps with some "experts", is often remembered as it is a technique that is still untapped, especially in Italy, and what would be a useful resource enhancement offered by a system as efficient production.

The first step towards a correct approach to the concept of soil-is the spread of basic education, possibly combined direct experience: thus we can understand in a simple, natural and intuitive operation of systems that may seem on paper but Difficult which are based on simple physical laws and mechanisms well known.

And what place in the world is more suitable for a school to disclose information?

The Hydroponic thus becomes a subject of study associated with the School of Professional Villacidro State Institute for Agriculture and the Environment "Cettolini" of Cagliari, located about nine kilometers from the town, within a farm affected by various activities for economic and educational (cereals, olives, greenhouses, orchards, nurseries, forestry, gardening). Read more ...