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Linnaeus Hammarby
From Natural History Museum website: Linné thought the air in Uppsala was unhealthy and the town too noisy. For that reason Linné in 1758 bought the two farms Hammarby and Sävja. The year after he also bought the neighbouring farm Edeby. Linné had to put himself in debt for these purchases. The original building at Hammarby was a small one-storey house. In consideration of his children's future Linné built a new bigger main building that was ready in 1762. The Linnaean family spent their summers at Hammarby. There Linné could grow plants which did not tolerate the too humid soil in the Botanical Garden in Uppsala. Of the seeds Linné got from queen Katarina II of Russia, he arranged a special department in his garden called "Sibiria". At Hammarby Linné received students for private lessons. After a big fire in Uppsala in 1766 Linné became worried about his collections and he therefore built a museum on the hill behind Hammarby for them.

Timeline of Uppsala's botanical gardens

 * 1655 - Rudbeck lays out Uppsala's first botanical garden at Svartbäcksgatan.
 * 1735–1737 - Linnaeus spends time working in two different botanical gardens in Amsterdam and visits Sherard's Botanical Garden in Oxford.
 * 1737–1738 - Linnaeus visits botanical gardens in Leiden and Paris.
 * 1742 - Linnaeus begins reconstructing botanical garden in Uppsala.
 * 1758 - Linnaeus bought farm in Hammarby.
 * 1787 - Carl Peter Thunberg persuades King Gustav III to give Uppsala Castle's large formal gardens to the university to be used as a new botanical garden.
 * 1807 - Plants and animals moved from former location on Svartbäcksgatan to the new garden.

Mario Rosato
First Name: Mario Last Name: Rosato Job Title: Chief Executive Officer Company: Sustainable Technologies Mario Alejandro Rosato founded Sustainable Technologies SL in 2009. He is the winner of The Economist. He has also received prizes from Caixa Manresa and Innovacat, and is currently in contention for the Entrepreneur XXI Prize in Spain. Mr Rosato holds one patent with several still pending in the Clean Tech sector. He is an energy consultant for Maine Pointe and an exclusive distributor of Bioprocess Control's instruments in Spain and Italy. He is a research partner of the Marine Biotechnology Institute of Gran Canaria (Spain) and to Professor Raman Saravanane of the Pondicherry Engineering College (India). Presently, Mario is a professor of wind power and biogas technology in Italy, at the Consorzio Universitario di Pordenone and at the Aghape Institute. -InnoCentive Challenge on The Capture of Atmospheric Carbon to Address Global Warming. New York, NY – February 21, 2011 – The Economist and InnoCentive, Inc. today announced the winner of their Reverse Climate Change Challenge. Mario Rosato, founder of Sustainable TechnologiesSL, was awarded $10,000 and presented his winning plan at The Economist’s Ideas Economy: Intelligent Infrastructure Event on February 16-17. The Challenge, which prompted the opening of more than 600 project rooms and received more than 70 submissions on the InnoCentive website, asked participants to identify promising ideas for the biological capture and sequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
 * http://ideas.economist.com/speaker/mario-rosato
 * http://www.innocentive.com/economist-and-innocentive-announce-winner-reverse-climate-change-challenge

Rosato’s plan involves extracting energy from organic wastes without releasing carbon dioxide emissions, and recovering nitrogen to boost the growth of the giant bamboo, which can replace trees for timber and paper making. Energy can be recovered from organic wastes by a controlled fermentative process called dark fermentation. This yields hydrogen as a final product, which can be used to produce electricity using only water vapour as a combustion product. The sludge and water remaining after dark fermentation contain high amounts of carbon and nitrogen, and act as natural fertilizers for the giant bamboo...
 * http://www.sustainable-technologies.eu/
 * http://www.sustainable-technologies.eu/TheEconomist.pdf
 * Wind turbine design Diseño de máquina eólicas de pequeña potencia Editorial Progensa, Sevilla, 1991. isbn 8486505356 http://rebiun.absysnet.com/cgi-bin/rebiun/O7823/IDef8005c8/NT1