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The final project I'll talk about is one that's very close to my heart, and it involves an economic and social value that is associated with epiphytic plants.
That's especially good that mammals and primates like fruits and bright plants, because you eat the fruit and you thereby spread the seed.
It's not just a whole lot of other plants.
We use the sun to drive photosynthesis in plants, break apart that CO2 and capture the carbon.
The carbon that plants need to grow comes from this carbon dioxide.
And that carbon dioxide, besides making plants grow, has other consequences as well, that plants, when they have higher carbon dioxide, increase the synthesis of carbohydrates, sugars and starches, and they decrease the concentrations of protein and critical nutrients.
In fact, this affects every consumer of plants.
With the help of IIT, TERI, and learnings from NASA, we discovered that there are three basic green plants, common green plants, with which we can grow all the fresh air we need indoors to keep us healthy.
The three plants are Areca palm, Mother-in-Law's Tongue and money plant.
We need four shoulder-high plants per person, and in terms of plant care, we need to wipe the leaves every day in Delhi, and perhaps once a week in cleaner-air cities.
And we need six to eight waist-high plants per person.
With these three plants, you can grow all the fresh air you need.
We have tried these plants at our own building in Delhi, which is a 50,000-square-feet, 20-year-old building.
And it has close to 1,200 such plants for 300 occupants.
Our experience points to an amazing increase in human productivity by over 20 percent by using these plants.
We are now replicating this in a 1.75-million-square-feet building, which will have 60,000 indoor plants.
At about 2.5 billion years ago, there is evidence that bacteria had begun to produce oxygen, kind of like plants do today.
Some of your and my ancestors saw the potential in certain wild plants and animals and started domesticating them.
This happened through continuous cultivation and selection of those plants with a special capacity - only a small part of wild plants and animals can be domesticated at all.
So you come down that chain, and there's tens of thousands of brands which we all buy heaps of products from, but then there's only a hundred major resin producers, big petrochemical plants, that spew out all the plastic which is single use.
If an intelligent extra-terrestrial was taxed with writing the encyclopedia of life on our planet, 27 out of 30 of these volumes would be devoted to bacteria and virus, with just a few of the volumes left for plants, fungus and animals, humans being a footnote; interesting footnote but a footnote nonetheless.
And then the first plants, animals, and then, in some ancestor species of ours, explanatory knowledge.
The last plants have closed now, but there is still a museum of the pearl button industry that's one of the most unusual in the world.
Well, instead of processing plants, animals or oil to make consumer materials, we might grow materials directly with living organisms.
Third, we have to be prepared to pay a price, whether it's for cars using BS6 fuel or for more expensive electricity from cleaner power plants.
When she came into my life, we were fighting against a huge waste facility planned for the East River waterfront despite the fact that our small part of New York City already handled more than 40 percent of the entire city's commercial waste: a sewage treatment pelletizing plant, a sewage sludge plant, four power plants, the world's largest food-distribution center, as well as other industries that bring more than 60,000 diesel truck trips to the area each week.
Unfortunately, race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
Green roofs are soil and living plants.
And the proposal has been to build a lot more coal plants.
We are life forms that have evolved to inhale the waste products of plants.
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