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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.

HORTICITY is a company specializing in planning, designing and implementing systems for the cultivation of fruit and vegetables in urban areas.

The garden made popular in the building of Via Gandusio

Horticity helps to satisfy the desire / passion to grow a vegetable garden on the terrace (mini-orchard) by creating a little piece of nature where not only grow traditional herbs (basil, rosemary and mint), but also tomatoes, zucchini and lettuce for home.

The techniques used are those typical of intensive crops off the ground but suitably modified to fit the space requirements, input and care of their little domestic production.

Horticity is also committed to the promotion and dissemination of the social value of the practice in urban horticulture and through participation in projects implementation and management of community gardens that provide counseling and training to associations of horticulturists.

http://www.horticity.it/
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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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A real tour that will travel throughout the peninsula, to tell the world of flowers, greenery and plants in the company of the most famous floral designer.

Milan, May 2010. From Milan to Genoa, via Florence, Rome, Naples, Lecce and Palermo. Meetings with international experts, comparisons with the green thumb enthusiasts and floral demonstrations of the best known national and international floral designer. It's called "FlorAvventura" and is the first "floreality show" on the road to the world of flowers that will depart from Milan on June 2 and ends June 20 in Genoa. A veritable tour of Italy through the world of flowers and plants that will air on Florasat.tv, web TV dedicated entirely to the world of flowers and flower farming. A whole new way to discover the beautiful country through roses, orchids, gardenias and lilacs.

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Rome, April 27 - (Adnkronos) - will go up 'yet the percentage of waste electrical and electronic equipment that does not end up in landfills but are transported to the recycling: and 'in fact coming very soon, within the first twenty days of May, the decree' one on one 'which actually allows those purchasing a new appliance retailer to leave the old to the consumer to start avoiding the' islands ecological 'made available to municipalities to dispose of what is now, in effect, and' an electronic waste.

As he learns the ADNKRONOS, in fact, the decree set up by the Ministry of Environment and 'implements' the provisions of decree 151 of 2005, and' present to the European Court of Auditors for the recording, after receiving the consent of the other ministries concerned.

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Rome, April 16 (Ign) - "Italy is the only European country which is undergoing a decline in area under organic, demonstrating that policies to support the sector are increasingly marginal. But the results of PrimaveraBio demonstrate once again that the future of Italian organic agriculture goes well. " , la campagna Aiab che apre le porte delle eccellenze del biologico in tutta Italia alle famiglie e ai consumatori italiani. With these words the President of the Italian Organic Agriculture Andrea Ferrante opened the ninth edition of Primaverabio, the campaign Aiab that opens the gates of excellence in the biological families throughout Italy and to Italian consumers.

Until May 16, in 18 Italian regions, hundreds of initiatives will bring fans into the heart of the organic production of quality organic. Every weekend you can visit an organic farm with tours, tastings, children's workshops, performances and debates. This year will also explored the theme of Biodiversity with a gadget that will help to raise funds for the Foundation for Research in organic farming.

Source: adnkronos

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 plant of tomato

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 tissue that transports water and 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 cribroso or book, is the tissue that transports the sap from the area in which it is produced to that in which will serve to the plant or MEP to the accumulation.
The movement of the sap takes place through organs called molecular pumps, at a speed that varies from 10 to 100 centimeters per hour.

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Our grandmothers were right: a research confirms that plants can actually decrease the pollution indoors.

Considering the amount of time we spend today at home and at work we have to fear is particularly ozone pollution, the gas known for its action as a barrier to harmful UV rays.

This gas, so useful in the stratosphere to avoid the greenhouse effect, focusing on the ground can become a serious health risk.

Prolonged exposure can lead to pulmonary edema in fact, a condition that seriously in the United States causes two million deaths a year.

Research conducted at Pennsylvania State University establish the usefulness of some common houseplants in lowering the levels of ozone in indoor environments.

Economic, easy maintenance, and certainly more practical for a charcoal filter, decorative plants as sansevieria, Chlorophytum Scindapsus and preserve homes and offices by the accumulation of harmful gases.

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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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