摘要
或许住惯了格子楼的你,早已想过要逃离钢筋水泥铸就的丛林,回归大自然,在树根上寻找一间属于自己的生态家园。
One day, humans may be returning to the forests to live in ecological homes grown from tree roots. Scientists from the US and Israel have proposed building the ingenious "tree-homes" in cities and towns as a way of saving the planet. Using advanced techniques of "aeroponics", the green-fingered1 researchers are confident the first prototype2 home could be ready in just ten years. Aeroponics is the science of growing plants in an air or mist environment---without soil. Some plants, such as orehids3 that grow on trees in tropical rainforests, grow this way naturally.