I was mortified to see in graphic form how much of my day was spent planted in a chair.
All that effort spent planting, growing, and then preparing a vegetable that looks and tastes like glue stew--I just don't see the point.
For each trial, we made six measurements: time spent with plant and school, latency to approach the plant and school, and the number of approaches to the plant and school.
By cross-fertilizing the financial folks with the engineers, Bechtel developed a set of standardized power plant designs that shrink the time spent on plant configurations and other details to hours instead of months.
At Stubai, at least the dominant plant species act as 'water spending' plants, maintaining maximum transpiration rates despite strong reductions in soil moisture.
Plant communities at Stubai more efficiently deplete soil moisture by acting as 'water spending' plants (Levitt, 1980; Moreno-Gutierrez et al., 2012), which is reflected by higher estimates for the parameters TRlow and higher TRhigh at Lautaret compared with Stubai.
Not that she's throwing in the trowel -- she spent last weekend planting pansies and petunias "to give a little color".
From 2008 to the end of 2014, its Southeast Asia subsidiary spent $1m to plant coral reefs and protect mangrove stands in the Thousand Islands archipelago of Indonesia.
Emma Bridgewater pottery has spent £10,000 planting wildflowers, poppies and sunflowers on the site in Hanley.
