The biobed site

The purpose of this website is to compile information on biobeds and other biopurification systems and make it accessible to the general public. "The site"
 
 
The photo is from the workshop held in September 2010. The demonstration was on the farm of Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy

Latest updates

2012
 
1st Latin American Biobed Workshop. 16. May
The LATAN Biobed Workshop was mostly in Spanish, but some presentations were in English and they are available on: Publications/Workshops.

For the Spanish presentations visit this website: http://workshop2012lechosbiologicos.org/comite-cientifico/


International Course. 12. May
Before  the first Latin American Biobeds Workshop at the Universidad de La Frontere, Sede Pucón, Chile Professor John Stenström made the course "Degradation and sorption of pesticides in soil" which is an important background for the understanding of what is going on in a biobed. See the presentations on Publications/presentations.
 
About the LATAM workshop April 10
 
First Latin American Biobed Workshop. January 10
The  first Latin American Biobed Workshop will take place May 2nd to May 4th in Chile. See more on http://biobedchile.org/

 
Happy New Year. January 2.
We will be back with updates in the new year.
 
 
2011
 
Research in Spain October 14.
A Spanish research group from the Environmental Protection department at the Estacion Experimental del Zaidín from the Spanish National Research Council (EEZ-CSIC) has also started a 3 year biobed project to investigate about the development of biobed system in Spain using organic wastes from wine and olive-oil the agro-industries and greenhouse crops. This proyect is co-financed by European Funds. Esperanza Romero Taboada, Estación Experimental Del Zaidín (EEZ-CSIC)
 
New page July 27.
From the start we had a Forum site. There was a link from this site to the Forum site, but no one have used it up till now. Therefore we now make a "Debate" page. Here it is possible to place a comment directly on this site. Please do so if you want to distribute some information to people who are interested in the biobed issue.
 
Vertical Green (VG) Biobed June 16.
A brochure on this special biobed is placed under publications / brochures. see here.

Please let us know April 29.
If anything happens on the biobed issue in your country please let us know so it can be placed on this website.

Mails to network March 22 
Mails about this website sent to all working with biobeds

Forum established Martz 21
Now also attached a special forum for debate.

Now public Martz 18
The site is now public and will in the next days be announced to the biobed society.
 
List of publications February 24.
A list of publications on biobeds is now available.
 
Contacts February 23. 
A list with the names of people working with biobeds in different counties is now available under "Contacts". 

Workshop downloads January 17.
All the presentations from the three European Biobed Workshops are now available on Publications.

Work started January 5.
We have now started to work more on the site and we hope to have something useable in the near future.
 
2010

3rd European Biobed Workshop. September 18.
The presentations from the workshop in Piacenza, Italy are now available. See links to information from the workshop here.

New website for biobeds. September 8.
A trial Biobed website is available under the name "www.bricksite.com/biobed". There is more information  on The site.

3rd European Biobed workshop September 1.
The workshop has just been held in Piacenza, Italy during August 30 and September 1. 
  The webside about biobeds