Bioremediation – Helping Nature Do It’s Thing

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Jìgìjìgì: Africulture Podcast

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Jìgìjìgì is an Afrikan-Centered Podcast that seeks to encourage other Afrikans to learn more about growing plants, food, soil, and their soul. We want to get our hands and minds dirty detailing the Afrikan relationship with the soil. We continually ask and answer the question, "How did you grow while you grew tomatoes, peppers, kale, and melons?" Building healthy soil builds a healthy soul and we share stories on how to do both. Expect episodes to contain wisdom, tips, and actionable advice from Afrikan Agriculturalists for how to improve "blacken" your green-thumb. An apt DMV proverb is "There is no culture without Agriculture." We find that to be very true here at Jìgìjìgì.

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Bioremediation – Helping Nature Do It’s Thing

Jìgìjìgì: Africulture Podcast

5 years ago

Bioremediation – Helping Nature Do It’s Thing

Bioremediation – Helping Nature Do It’s Thing JP-033

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The beginning of a series on Bioremediation. We give a short overview of how we can use life to clean life. We end with a story of a graduate thesis I abandoned because it wasn’t going to get me a doctorate.

* Works Referenced* Phytoremediation of levonorgestrel in aquatic environment by hydrophytes* Umbrella Papyrus* RIP to mine, I miss it so much, it lives on through many friends!* Removal of Heavy Metals in Contaminated Soil by Phytoremediation Mechanism: a Review* Copper Plant* Levonorgestrel* Fathead Minnow

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* Where have you been??!
* Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice Part 3
* Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 2
* Dr. Isaac Zama – Amba Farmer’s Voice pt 1
* Urban Agriculture and Climate Change: “The New Normal”

Transcript (automated)

Peace,

I am Mason Olonade and this is Jìgìjìgì: Africulture Podcast. Here we believe building a healthy soil builds a healthy soul, so we share strategies for how to do both. To do both we ask two questions: How do you grow while you grow Kale, Collards, Tomatoes, and Melons. And why, do you think, the healthiest soils are Black?

Bioremediation: Helping Nature Do It’s Thing

I’ve been planning this Bioremediation series for some time, as one episode will not do this topic justice.

In short, bioremediation is the use of plants, bacteria, fungi, the sum of all known as biology, life, to clean up the environment. Some short examples are using Sunflowers to take up uranium from the groundwater, various fungi to breakdown petrochemicals into the most elementary fatty acids, or mining nickel from the incinerated harvests of Sunflower, Indian Mustard, and the Copper Plant. The Copper Plant, in South Africa is so tolerant of high copper soils that some geologists use it as an indicator of what’s in the soil.

Usually these plants are called hype accumulators because of their ability to accumulate large amounts of heavy metals, radionuclides, organic solvents, hydrocarbons and other environmental toxins.

All of these plants have a variety of strategies they employ to reverse the effects that we have caused. All that is left for us to do is to figure out how to recover the toxins once they are stored within the plant. I’ll list the most common strategies followed by a short definition. It won’t be that scientifically tough, I promise!