Celebrating Plants and the Planet:



Plants have their own universal health care and they make ours possible.

October's links (at www.zooplantman.com under NEWS) challenge us to
understand health care the botanical way.



· Stick a microphone inside a sick tree and you hear conversations: the
sounds of suffering trees and the response of invading insects. Researchers
think they can sabotage the insects by altering the conversation.

· When trees are stressed, they make aspirin to support their immune
systems.

· New Mexico Native American and Hispanic populations have used local
plants for healing for centuries. Now the National Institute of Health wants
to know if they can cure cancer.

· Can plants help us understand how medicines affect us? Why yes.

· Shade grown coffee is touted as being kinder to workers and the land.
It seems it curbs global warming too.



Please share these stories with associates, staff, docents and -- most
importantly -- visitors! Remember, over a hundred other stories can be found
in the archive section of the website.



As a special Halloween month treat, play with a spider:
http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/ (This is the best interactive
animation I've seen!)

If that's not enough, see the scariest trees!
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/30-creepiest-trees-on-eart
h-pics/1381/2





Rob





Zoo Horticulture

Consulting & Design

Greening design teams since 1987



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