Delprat Phytoremediation Garden, Mayfield North, New South Wales
Built on the land of the Pambalong clan of the Awabakal people
University of Newcastle – School of Architecture and Built Environment and University of Technology Sydney, in collaboration with Landcom, NSWI
In a beautiful image of the circularity of intellectual insight and material processes, science writer Dorion Sagan writes of how, in hearing his own breathing, he is reminded of the redox gradient, the metabolic source of energy for most animals. The oxygen we inhale and the chemical compounds making up our food are what sustain us in the very physical process that enables our awareness of those same processes and of our own existence. Redox gradients also exist in the biogeochemical processes of wetlands and soils, and also in contaminant plumes. The physics and chemistry
