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Identifying the Urban Garden with Mobile Phones

Posted on September 22, 2008

This article was written by Sanjay Khanna in August 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective.Human cognition, formerly harnessed to understanding habitats and bioregions, has adapted ingeniously (and perilously) to the global consumer marketplace. People around the world, even children under the age of three, recognize numerous brand-name products. Yet many of us would be hard pressed to identify five edible native plants in our respective neighborhoods. We get brand attributes, but have trouble with plant attributes -- in spite of the fact that knowl...

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