There are many apps that use mobile phone cameras and other devices that might surprise gardeners. Here are some examples:
Seek by iNaturalist
It is an app from the website iNaturalist. To use it, simply take a picture or point your camera at a plant, insect, or animal and you will get important information about it. You can also find lists of plants, insects and animals in your area, add your observations, and connect with experts.
From Seed to Spoon
It helps users grow crops. You can add which fruits and vegetables you would like to grow on a virtual "Grow Box" from a list of images. It will then give seed-starting,transplanting, and harvesting dates for those plants based on your location using satellite(卫星) data. The free version of the app also provides information on each crop's requirements for temperature, sunlight, water, and fertilizer.
PictureThis
It will identify your plant and provide information about it from a picture on your phone's camera. After using all the provided free identifications, you will be asked to watch advertisements or share the app to earn more. Or you can pay $29.99 a year for the paid version. The paid version provides treatment information for sick plants. It also includes plant-care guides, access to a team of experts at any time, and unlimited plant identifications.
Google Lens
It uses image recognition technology to identify plants, trees, animals, and insects. It can be found on the Google app or by the Google Search bar in your mobile browser onAndroid and Apple products. Then, touch the camera image and choose a photo from your phone's photo history. Lens can also be used to identify other objects and places, and to compare products to buy online. The tool is free.
TikTokers have shown their love and support for a woman who was left"heartbroken"after her farm was sabotaged. Carly Burd, from Harlow, England, found the soil covered in salt and posted a touching video about the incident on TikTok.
Burd, who has Multiple Sclerosis and Lupus(多发性硬化症和狼疮), told viewers she believed someone went onto her plot of land and placed salt to destroy the work that she's put in to help feed people in need.
Last November, Burd began posting about her"A Meal on Me with Love". "I changed my garden into a place to provide those on benefits, pensioners(领养老金的人) on state pension and those on a low income free organic fruit and vegetables plus other necessities of life. They receive a large box that contains necessities plus enough food, fruit, vegetables,rice, breakfast etc. for the number of people in the household,"Bur d said. Up till now she's fed more than 1,600 people among the cost of living crisis in the UK.
After Bur d shared her heartbreak on TikTok, users began providing lots of donations,advice, and support. Burd's"A Meal on Me with Love"has been flooded with donations in light of this incident.
As of Thursday morning, Burd's GoFundMe campaign has raised £184,777 of its first£4,000 goal. "The world needs more people like you," one person wrote with a $15donation. "Your love and kindness for humanity is amazing. All of us would be so lucky to cross paths with someone like you in a time of need,"another person commented with a $10donation.
Bur d said in an update that with the help of others she was able to dig up a lot of the salt and cover it with topsoil to neutralize(中和) it. "I'm really losing my head by everyone's comments and everything,"she said. "I really do appreciate it—thank you."
Art is a reflection of society and culture. It helps us understand what we are as human beings and influences how we relate to each other. It's also an expression of creativity that can be used for self-reflection or social influence.
Art is important to individuals for many different reasons. Art is highly subjective and also very personal and has long been a medium where individuals can express their feelings and emotions.
For many people, art has always been a part of their lives and is an essential part of their personality or who they are. Art has the ability to help people get through some of the hardest times in their lives.
Art helps people connect with one another on a deeper level, whether by speaking your language or by imagining your thoughts differently. Some artworks speak to someone more than others, and everyone will have a piece of art that is particularly important or special to them.
Art has been a part of human culture for many centuries. It has been used to express emotions, to communicate ideas and it has been a way to pass down knowledge from one generation to another. So it is important in our cultural and social lives. Art also plays a role in recording history, and many artworks help us paint a picture of what life was like in previous generations.
Art is also particularly important as a symbol of culture across the world. Research has shown that art can affect the basic sense of self. Folk arts, for example, are highly unique to specific cultures and tell the history and rich traditions of a region. Painting, architecture, art sculpture, music, literature and many other fine arts can be considered a repository(宝库) of a given society's collective memory.
When we talk about plastic rubbish polluting the earth, we don't often talk about the environmental impacts caused by fast-food packaging. Actually, this packaging is often coated with environmentally damaging chemicals. Recently researchers from Flinders University andGerman biomaterials developer, one·five, have started using seaweed(海草) to solve the packaging waste problem of the fast-food industry.
Using seaweed to create sustainable alternatives to existing products isn't a new concept.The idea of turning seaweed into a material to replace bubble wrap(气泡膜包装) was put forward more than seven years ago. This time, the Flinders University materials researchers and one · five are using seaweed extracts(提取物) to develop next-generation coating materials.
In fact, these new non-pollutive biomaterials are designed to replace the traditional fossil-based plastic coatings that are used in most oil-proof fast-food packaging. The new coating not only meets the required functionality standards of traditional oil-proof packaging materials but also works to create an environmentally sustainable solution. It is as recyclable as paper,explains Dr Zhongfa n Jia, a lead researcher from the Flinders Institute.
"The seaweed extracts have a similar structure to the natural fibres from which paper is made,"says Dr Jia.
"Our novel treatments boost the oil-proof feature of the seaweed through simple adaptation while neither affecting the biodegradability(生物降解力) nor recyclability of the coated paper."
"The product could be great news for the environment. We are able to reduce harmful plastic pollution with it,"says Claire Gusko, co-founder of one·five.
Now Flinders University and one·five are trying mass production from the laboratory to the factory.
Although achievements like this are definitely worth celebrating, we can't just stop at seaweed packaging. We need to use seaweed and other sustainable tools to effectively help reduce our environmental impacts and make real changes.
City parks and open space improve our physical and mental health, strengthen our communities, and make our cities and neighbourhoods more attractive places to live and work..
In Boulder, Colorado, a greenbel t added $5.4 million to the total property values of one neighbourhood. Other things being equal, there was a $4.20 decrease in the price of property for every foot one moved away from the greenbelt, and the average value of homes next to the greenbelt was 32% percent higher than those 3,200 feet away.
Parks attract tourists. As community landmarks, parks offer a marketing tool for cities to attract businesses and conferences. Parks can be used to hold festivals, concerts and athletics events, bringing additional boosts to the local economy.
Green space provides rich ecosystem services. The U. S. Forest Service found that over a 50-year lifetime, one tree produces $31,250 worth of oxygen, provides $62,000worth of air pollution control, recycles $37,500 worth of water, and controls $31,250worth of soil erosion(流失).
A park's trees store water, reducing the rate at which it flows into a city's stormwater treatment facilities. Parks increase the amount of a city's pervious surfaces, which allow rainwater to pass slowly into the ground. .
A. Your local city park may improve your health.
B. Homebuyers prefer homes close to parks and open space.
C. It makes a great contribution to the improvement of our living environment.
D. They help fill hotel rooms and bring customers to local stores and restaurants.
E. Building facilities to deal with that amount of stormwa ter would cost $38 million.
F. Lots of studies have shown all kinds of benefits parks bring to a city and its people.
G. Having trees and parks can decrease the necessary size of the city's stormwater management system.
John and his friends used to go mountain climbing once every year. This time they have1 to climb mountains in the Swiss Alps.
They reached the famous mountain 2 in the Swiss Alps and were surprised to see many people climbing the mountains. John and his friends started 3 all the mountain climbing gear(装备) and started climbing. In no 4 , they reached the top of the mountain.
After 5 there, John's friends decided to camp there. Then John saw another mountain where only a 6 of people were trying to climb it. He told his friends,"Let us go and climb that mountain too. It will be fun and 7 instead of camping here."A friend replied,"No way! The path is difficult to climb."People nearby hearing this said, "If it's easy to climb, why are we sitting here doing nothing?"8 them, John took that as a challenge and went alone towards climbing the peak.
Two hours later, he reached the top. John was 9 to have climbed the peak. He could see the beautiful views of nature from the top. He started a(n)10 with people there and asked them,"While climbing this peak, I felt it was not so difficult. Then why only a handful of people are here? If people could climb the below peak, they can climb here too if they 11 some effort."A veteran(老兵) replied,"Most people in the crowd right there are happy with what they find 12 . They never think that they have the 13 to achieve more. Many of them do not show any 14 , and they remain part of the crowd the whole life, complaining about the handful of courageous people and call them lucky."
Hearing this, John 15 the veteran for explaining the importance of courage in our life.
I just got a parcel from home! It took about two weeks ( arrive), and it was a bit damaged, but it was so nice to get some sweets and jam from home; I've been dying to have some of my favourite sweets, and it's always nice to get mail.
So I've been here in the jungle for about a month now. My secondary school is a bush school. The classrooms are made of bamboo, clay floors and roofs of grass. It takes me only a few minutes to walk to school down a dusty track (cover) in weeds. When Ireach the school grounds, I'm greeted by a chorus of"good morning"from the boys. Unlike students in our country, these boys do not wear cotton uniforms, and many of (they)also have to walk a long way, sometimes for up to two hours, just to get to school.
There's no electricity, running water or even textbooks. All the students have are pencils, rubbers, and paper. I'm still trying to adap t to these (condition). I've had to become much more (imagine) in my teaching. Science is my most (challenge)subject as my students have no concept of doing experiments. There is no equipment, and since there isn't even washroom, if I need water I have to carry it from my house in a basin! It's important not to be too rigid about rules here, too. The other day I was showing the boys a chemistry experiment when, before I knew it, the mixture was bubbling out of the test tube spilling everywhere! The class (become) a circus as the boys, had never come across anything like this before, started jumping out of the windows.
One day a man saw an old lady, standing on the side of the road, but even in the poor light of day, he could see she needed help. So he pulled up in front of her car and got out.
Even with the smile on his face, she was worried. No one had stopped to help for the last hour or so. Was he going to hurt her? He didn't look safe; he looked poor and hungry. He could see that she was frightened, standing out there in the cold. He said,"I'm here to help you, ma'am. Why don't you wait in the car where it's warm? By the way, my name is BryanAnderson."
Well, all she had was a flat tire(爆胎), but for an old lady, that was bad enough. Bryan checked under the car looking for a tool. Soon he was able to change the tire. As he was tightening up the lug nuts(螺帽), she rolled down the window and began to talk to him. She told him that she was from St. Louis and was only just passing through. She couldn't thank him enough for coming to her aid. The lady asked how much she should pay him. Any amount would have been all right with her. Bryan never thought twice about being paid. This was not a job to him. This was helping someone in need, and God knows there were plenty, who had given him a hand in the past. He told her, "If you really wanted to pay me back, next time you see someone in need, give them a hand."It had been a cold and cheerless day, but he felt good as he headed for home.
A few miles down the road the lady saw a small café. She went in to grab a bite to eat. It was a dirty-looking restaurant. The lady noticed the waitress was nearly eight months pregnant(怀孕的), but she had a sweet smile, one that even being on her feet for the whole day couldn't erase.
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The waitress came over and brought a clean towel to dry her wet hair.
Then the waitress noticed something written on a tissue.
