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EFIG Technician Award

2010-04-01T05:49:00.000-07:00

Mr Tony Allington of Bumble Bees Office Plants recently won Technician Award at our annual EFIG (The European Federation of Interior Landscaping Groups) Awards Dinner held at Birmingham’s Botanical Gardens. Tony has certainly earned this award with his dedication and loyalty to his job. He even checks in on his plants on his days off.
He is also our greenest employee as he walks to most of his contracts based in Central Milton Keynes. On visiting his London Contracts he can often be seen with a large plant on his lap on the train.
It is during these times of recession that Businesses should be thankful to their best employees who are prepared to do that little bit more.

24,200 down, 217,800 to go: why the pink banana is a coup for Kew

2009-12-08T09:30:00.000-08:00

Royal Botanic Gardens hits 10 per cent in quest to collect seeds of world's plants.
The Yunnan banana, Musa itinerans, found in Asia from China to India, is the 24,200th species to be conserved for Kew's Millennium Seed Bank.
A pink banana marks a milestone as Kew Gardens celebrates collecting the seeds of 10 per cent of the world's wild plants.
The banana in question, the Yunnan banana, Musa itinerans, found in Asia from China to India, is the 24,200th species to be conserved for Kew's Millennium Seed Bank, and as such denotes the 10 per cent mark in Kew's mammoth task of collecting and preserving the world's wild seeds, which it took up in 2000.
It is 24,200 down and 217,800 to go in what is perhaps the most ambitious botanical project anywhere – that of fending off the multiple threats of extinction hanging over the flowering plants of the world, of which 70 per cent are now at risk.

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Artificial Trees to cut carbon

2009-10-12T07:23:00.000-07:00

Engineers say a forest of 100,000 "artificial trees" could be deployed within 10 to 20 years to help soak up the world's carbon emissions.

The trees are among three geo-engineering ideas highlighted as practical in a new report.

The authors from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers say that without geo-engineering it will be impossible to avoid dangerous climate change.

The report includes a 100-year roadmap to "decarbonise" the global economy.

No silver bullet

Launching the report, lead author Dr Tim Fox said geo-engineering should not be viewed as a "silver bullet" that could combat climate change in isolation.

He told BBC News it should be used in conjunction with efforts to reduce carbon emissions and to adapt to the effects of climate change.

Many climate scientists calculate that the world has only a few decades to reduce emissions before there is so much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that a dangerous rise in global temperature is inevitable.

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