This kind of plant grows only in the tropical regions.

Plants are nourished by earth.

So just to give you a bit of context, as June said, I'm an artist, a technologist and an educator.

So we've been planting stuff for 11,000 years.

Some sort of microelectro technology.

Engineer, waste disposal.

There are 130 indigenous species of vegetation.

No plant can grow in this climate.

And what makes it interesting is that the island right now is just a piece of desert.

Marine plants grow on the sea bed.

The shortage of water means that plants cannot thrive.

Because we believe that it's not biology it's culture.

The technology of that kind can be worth, an untold fortune.

The seeds of plants breathe all the time.

Other transport efficiency, renewable technology, carbon capture and sequestration.

These lichens grow only one centimeter every hundred years.

Not often,as you can see.I don't have much of a green thumb.

But my passion in addition to Jack and my children are the plants, the so called epiphytes, those plants that grow up on trees.

They are able to distinguish kin and non kin.

Plants grow quickly after rain.

And that is this the farm is called Polyface, which means ... the idea is he's got six different species of animals, as well as some plants, growing in this very elaborate symbiotic arrangement.

This is a typical machine that will be used for this technology.

PowerPoint is supposed to be considered a great educational technology, but it was not meant for education, it was meant for making boardroom presentations.

So seawater reverse osmosis is a membrane filtration technology.

So we see some green shoots that things are getting better.

Some plants cannot adapt themselves to the cold.

That's right. Fantastic. That's right.

Good lord we know that term now.

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..intelligent species reject technology that would enhance ability..

Plant.

Plant!

The plant.

Plant!

So you ask yourself a question.

Cyberspace moves everything at the speed of light.

Some plants grow well with a minimum of care.

You kids are going to grow all kinds of plants.

Is it possible to replace a system based on fossil fuels with a patchwork of alternatives?

We borrowed it. Video conferencing. The personal computer itself.

I thought so, too.

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There are plants of different kinds in this garden.

I too was fascinated by this new and disruptive cell technology, and this inspired a shift in my mindset, from transplanting whole organs to transplanting cells.

This is something called an underground forest.