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Jonah Kraus' yard creations
"A Japanese invention that turns petals and leaves into amplifiers." (I've just recently read Ballard's 1956 singing-plants "Prima Belladonna".)
"Just days later eight-inch stalks of the plant have returned, with knotweed already bursting up through the pavement and road."
Grass-and-soil garden furniture - small, comfortable, dormant volcanos.
"[There is] a small transparent window in the case or cover in which they can embed a seed. The seed is visible to the environmentally aware mobile phone user but will not germinate until the phone cover or case is recycled."
Using genetically-engineered cress to detect landmines; tweaked to turn prematurely red when it soaks excessive heavy metals of NO2 from the soil.
Michael Pollan interview; the tentacles of GM corn in America. "If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."
"The reverse of the stamp carries a message thanking users for taking part in the experiment although users are unaware of what this means until they lick the stamp and coloured dye is transferred to the tongue."
Art installation that adds giant, plantlike tentacles onto visitors' shadows.
"Few houses are abandoned and allowed to be taken over by vegetation. However, in parts of the south including the city of Atlanta those that are, are susceptible to being engulfed by kudzu."
18th of May onwards. "It is difficult to imagine how we would manage to live in a world without them." In a fantastic Fist-of-Fun-events-diary-style coup, the week's opening event has John Nettles as a special guest.
"The ants are always hiding just under the holes, waiting with their mandibles open. When an insect arrives they immediately grab the legs and antennae [...] stretching it out as though being tortured on a mediaeval rack."
"According to Biffa, one of the largest waste handlers in Britain, households now throw out more than supermarkets and the food processing industry combined. Food waste is roughly one third by weight of all the waste produced by households."
Varroa mite parasites are destroying hives in California. "If honeybees ceased to exist, two-thirds of the citrus, all of the watermelons, the blueberries, strawberries, pecans and beans would disappear."
"The Derby In Bloom people are aware, but aren't sure whether it's due to vandalism or just the way the plants have grown."