Lokomotiva Blog

The carrion flowers include two tropical giants that grow only in the rain forest of two islands in Southeast Asia: Sumatra, which is part of Indonesia and Borneo. One of these is the largest flower in the world –the “stinking corpse lily”. This rare plant has no leaves or stems of its own. Instead, it’s [...]

Growing food crops is hard work, as any farmer will tell you. To grow corn or pumpkins or any other crop, first you must plow and cultivate the soil, breaking it up and digging out the weeds. Then you plant your seeds. And then, as soon as you turn your back, hungry birds show up [...]

Forests are a renewable resources. Unlike coal, iron ore, oil and other resourses that will someday be depaleted, trees can be grown many times on the same area from which they were harvested. We use products made from wood every day –furniture, paper, pencils, floors, doors. Hundreds of additional forest products have been developed using [...]