{"id":1653,"date":"2008-06-25T10:45:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T18:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.houseofcassette.com\/lifestyle\/2008\/06\/25\/eco-sphere\/"},"modified":"2014-03-02T20:53:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T03:53:20","slug":"eco-sphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nycparislondonhktokyola.com\/blog\/eco-sphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco-Sphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our girl SuChin is a host on the new eco show &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/planetgreen.discovery.com\/tv\/g-word\/\" target=\"_blank\">G Word<\/a>&#8221; on Discovery green channel.. She gave us a new little eco-sphere.. It&#8217;s soo cool. It&#8217;s a little sealed glass ball that is totally self sustaining.<\/p>\n<p>Here some words on the eco-sphere::<\/p>\n<p>Contained in each of these beautifully crafted spheres are several key components, each of which are critically important to one another. Active micro-organisms, bright red shrimp, and algae comprise the biological elements whose symbiotic relationship means they could not exist without each other. Their environment is composed of filtered seawater, Gorgonia (a non-living branch-like material), and gravel. Gorgonia and gravel serve as hiding places for the animals and provide the algae and micro-organisms with a stable platform for growth. Culminating in a perfect biological balance, each Ecosphere is a wonderful example of nature. This is how it works: First, light energy is used by the algae to fuel the photosynthetic process which produces oxygen as a bi-product. Then, using the oxygen, the shrimp produce carbon dioxide, which is used by the algae. The shrimp also produce waste product, which is then utilized by the micro-organisms who break it down into basic nutrients that can be used by the shrimp and algae. It is a perfect circle needing nothing more than light. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturesodyssey.com\/ecospheres-c-15.html\" target=\"_blank\">(read more :: get one here)<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nycparislondonhktokyola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/bio.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nycparislondonhktokyola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/bio1.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bio\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nycparislondonhktokyola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/bio2.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"eco\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nycparislondonhktokyola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/eco.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our girl SuChin is a host on the new eco show &#8220;G Word&#8221; on Discovery green channel.. She gave us a new little eco-sphere.. It&#8217;s soo cool. It&#8217;s a little sealed glass ball that is totally self sustaining. Here some words on the eco-sphere:: Contained in each of these beautifully crafted spheres are several key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycparislondonhktokyola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycparislondonhktokyola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycparislondonhktokyola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycparislondonhktokyola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycparislondonhktokyola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycparislondonhktokyola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10505,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycparislondonhktokyola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/10505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycparislondonhktokyola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycparislondonhktokyola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycparislondonhktokyola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}