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| Vertical Farming Project |
By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth's population will reside in urban centers. Applying the most conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human population will increase by about 3 billion people during the interim. An estimated 109 hectares of new land (about 20% more land than is represented by the country of Brazil) will be needed to grow enough food to feed them, if traditional farming practices continue as they are practiced today. At present, throughout the world, over 80% of the land that is suitable for raising crops is in use (sources: FAO and NASA). Historically, some 15% of that has been laid waste by poor management practices. What can be done to avoid this impending disaster?
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| Vertical Farming Project |
By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth's population will reside in urban centers. Applying the most conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human population will increase by about 3 billion people during the interim. An estimated 109 hectares of new land (about 20% more land than is represented by the country of Brazil) will be needed to grow enough food to feed them, if traditional farming practices continue as they are practiced today. At present, throughout the world, over 80% of the land that is suitable for raising crops is in use (sources: FAO and NASA). Historically, some 15% of that has been laid waste by poor management practices. What can be done to avoid this impending disaster?
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Advantages of Vertical Farming
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Year-round crop production; 1 indoor acre is equivalent to 4-6 outdoor acres or more, depending upon the crop (e.g., strawberries: 1 indoor acre = 30 outdoor acres) |
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No weather-related crop failures due to droughts, floods, pests |
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All VF food is grown organically: no herbicides, pesticides, or fertilizers |
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VF virtually eliminates agricultural runoff by recycling black water |
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VF returns farmland to nature, restoring ecosystem functions and services |
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VF greatly reduces the incidence of many infectious diseases that are acquired at the agricultural interface |
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VF converts black and gray water into potable water by collecting the water of
evapotranspiration |
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VF adds energy back to the grid via methane generation from composting non-edible
parts of plants and animals |
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VF dramatically reduces fossil fuel use (no tractors, plows, shipping.) |
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VF converts abandoned urban properties into food production centers |
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VF creates sustainable environments for urban centers |
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VF creates new employment opportunities |
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We cannot go to the moon, Mars, or beyond without first learning to farm indoors on
earth |
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VF may prove to be useful for integrating into refugee camps |
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VF offers the promise of measurable economic improvement for tropical and subtropical
LDCs. If this should prove to be the case, then VF may be a catalyst in helping to reduce or even reverse the population growth of LDCs as they adopt urban agriculture as a strategy for sustainable food production. |
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VF could reduce the incidence of armed conflict over natural resources, such as water
and land for agriculture |
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| Window Farms are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials |
Goal 1
to start a Windowfarming craze in New York City and other dense urban areas, helping people grow some of their food year-round in their apartment windows.
Goal 2
give ordinary folks a means to collaborate on research and development of these vertical hydroponic food-growing curtains through the community site at our.windowfarms.org
The Windowfarms Project operates in what seems a small niche, but we hope it might be what Buckminster Fuller would call a "trim tab," a small part that turns giant ships by being particularly well placed.
Growing some of our own food is a simple pleasure that can make a big difference in our relationship with nature. As we choose nutrients to feed plants we hope to eat in turn, we gain experience with a nearly-lost fundamental human art, get a microcosmic view of the food system, develop a stake in the conversation, and come up with new ideas for how to take care of ourselves and our planet in troubled times.
Let's make this experience possible for anyone!
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| Window Farms are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials |
Goal 1
to start a Windowfarming craze in New York City and other dense urban areas, helping people grow some of their food year-round in their apartment windows.
Goal 2
give ordinary folks a means to collaborate on research and development of these vertical hydroponic food-growing curtains through the community site at our.windowfarms.org
The Windowfarms Project operates in what seems a small niche, but we hope it might be what Buckminster Fuller would call a "trim tab," a small part that turns giant ships by being particularly well placed.
Growing some of our own food is a simple pleasure that can make a big difference in our relationship with nature. As we choose nutrients to feed plants we hope to eat in turn, we gain experience with a nearly-lost fundamental human art, get a microcosmic view of the food system, develop a stake in the conversation, and come up with new ideas for how to take care of ourselves and our planet in troubled times.
Let's make this experience possible for anyone!
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Dear Friends,
The Windowfarms Project is making a big leap and we need your help.
Before he died, my passionately environmental engineer/inventor grandpa talked to me about a challenge our generation would face: the complex systems his generation had set up turned out not to be as healthy for ourselves or the rest of the natural world and too few people comprehend or are involved in the decisions that operate them.
I started The Windowfarms Project as a grassroots way to start to address a nexus in these issues-- our food system-- and to give ordinary people a way of participating in the "green revolution." Over the last year, through an organized online collaboration of regular folks, we "windowfarmers" have designed a system for growing nutritious veggies in the windows of homes in a way that looks like an elegant garden/fountain. We have given away the plans and shown anyone how to make them out of cheap, easily accessible and recycled materials. Us windowfarmers are ongoingly testing new techniques and sharing results online to make windowfarms continually more efficient, more productive, more nutritious, quieter, prettier, and more tasty.
The project has been exceedingly popular (worldwide, even!)-- so much so that it has grown past my capacity to manage it and financially support the work to be done alone. It needs to become an organization and have its own patrons until the grants we have applied for (surely!) roll in late next year. If that doesn't happen, I'm going to need to put it to bed and move on.
I'm giving it one last bit of my all and attempting to turn it into a nonprofit dedicated to the open research and development of windowfarms for our homes! The idea is to make it my job to run the org, the site, the R&D process, and training sessions/curricula so other people can take over. I need to bring on someone like Maya Nayak full time to share the workload. We have applied for 501(c)(3) status, have a 3 member Board (including Rebecca Bray as Chairwoman!!), and have given ourselves until Jan 4 at 2 pm to raise $25k in a public support test.
Will you contribute to our public support test via our Kickstarter campaign and also forward this to everyone you know?
Here are some short videos of the project if you'd like a little more background.
The Windowfarms Project operates in what seems a small niche, but I hope it might be what Buckminster Fuller would call a "trim tab," a small part that turns giant ships by being particularly well placed. Growing some of our own food is a simple pleasure that can make a big difference in our relationship with nature. As we choose nutrients to feed plants we hope to eat in turn, we gain experience with a nearly-lost fundamental human art, get a microcosmic view of the food system, develop a stake in the conversation, and come up with new ideas for how to take care of ourselves and our planet in troubled times. Let's make this experience possible for anyone!
Thank you.
PS- Sign up for updates by clicking the orange RSS button under the video on this page.
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Britta Riley
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Created: 29/12/2009 :: Updated: 31/12/2009 ::
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| Cherry Snapper Website |
A Lifetime work of art.
That is what my pure gene lines mean to me.
EACH IMPROVEMENT OF ANY SELECTED CHARCTERISTIC GIVES ME ENORMOUS PERSONAL SATISFACTION .
Click on details for more info.
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| Cherry Snapper Website |
A Lifetime work of art.
That is what my pure gene lines mean to me.
EACH IMPROVEMENT OF ANY SELECTED CHARCTERISTIC GIVES ME ENORMOUS PERSONAL SATISFACTION .
Click on details for more info.
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I have spent over 40 year Breeding tilapia, improving tilapia gene lines creating Red tilapia, and improving yhe body form of "pennyfish" from 25% in 1963 to 50% in 2009.
I have pionered and installed high oxygen intensive aquaculture production systems.
We built the first u-tube used to control oxygen and co2 levels in aquaculture. We can dissolve up to 800 parts per million parts of water and thereby control oxygen levels in growing situations.
We have designed hatchery systems to produce thousand of pennyfish fingerlings a day using breeder cages.
We have helped to establish the production of over two billion pounds per year of our tilapia in over 50 locations in North America, Mexico, South America, Central America, Kenya Africa, and Saudi Aribea in the Middle east.
Our goal is to help people with the production of tilapia necessary to *feed everyone* in the world a well balanced nutritious* diet, and to restore the forest of the world. |
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Created: 07/04/2009 :: Updated: 12/05/2009 ::
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| Lamps for Growing Plants |
Lamps for Growing Plants. (LED or otherwise). Now, for wavelengths and how much light is needed:. Chlorophyll has two spectral ranges of utilization - red ...
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Created: 16/02/2009 :: Updated: 16/02/2009 ::
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| Tags: led leds wavelenght growing lamp |
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| Sure To Grow |
Click here to read the complete testimonial. Welcome to Sure To Grow™! We are excited to bring you the first growth medium - substrate - of the 21st century. ...
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| Sure To Grow |
Click here to read the complete testimonial. Welcome to Sure To Grow™! We are excited to bring you the first growth medium - substrate - of the 21st century. ...
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Created: 12/01/2009 :: Updated: 11/01/2010 ::
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| Green Roof Growers: How to Make a Two Bucket Sub-Irrigated Planter ... |
We're growing heirloom vegetables on our respective rooftops in the City of Chicago using homemade *sub-irrigated planters* (SIPs) and commercially ...
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How to Make a Two Bucket Sub-Irrigated Planter (SIP)
This is a simple, easy-to-do project that will let you grow your own food wherever there’s enough sunlight--on your roof, balcony, back steps, driveway, or vacant lot next door. It doesn't take any special skill and the materials are all readily available. |
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Created: 10/01/2009 :: Updated: 03/02/2009 ::
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| Koi and Water Garden Society of Central New York - cny |
Promote and enlarge the hobby of keeping, breeding, appreciating, and exhibiting Koi, pond fish and water plants in cny.
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The purpose of the Koi and Water Garden Society of Central New York is to promote, create, and enlarge the hobby of keeping, breeding, appreciating, and exhibiting Koi and pond fish, as well as encouraging a greater appreciation of and interest in aquatic plants and ornamental water gardening. The club is based in Syracuse, NY and has members from four counties in CNY. |
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Created: 09/01/2009 :: Updated: 09/01/2009 ::
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| Happy D Ranch 3 |
Jul 16, 2008 ... A complete website for buying worms, and easy-to-use bins such as the Worm Factory, Can-O-Worms, Eliminator, Enviro-Cycle, ...
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Created: 08/01/2009 :: Updated: 08/01/2009 ::
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| Simple Sand Hydroponics |
Explains how to build a home hydroponics system, covering hardware supplies, media, nutrients, and tips for success.
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Created: 24/12/2008 :: Updated: 27/01/2009 ::
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| hydroforhunger.org |
Hydro for Hunger is a non-profit, collaborative program designed to generate aid from specific product sales through participating hydroponics companies.
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Hydro for Hunger is an initiative by participating independent hydroponic merchants in support of hunger relief organizations including the Institute for Simplified Hydroponics (ISH). ISH is a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing world hunger through the power of hydroponic gardening. Using interactive Internet-based training programs, the Institute for Simplified Hydroponics helps provide people in developing
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countries with the knowledge and tools to become self-sufficient through simple, small-scale hydroponic food production techniques.
The goals of the ISH are achievable, and with assistance from you the results could be revolutionary. Learn more about Hydro For Hunger!
Facts On
World Hunger |
The goals of Hydro For Hunger are achievable, and
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Besides death, chronic malnutrition also causes impaired vision, listlessness, stunted growth and greatly increased susceptibility to disease. Severely malnourished people are unable to function at even a basic level. (United Nations World Food Programme)
In a recent survey, AARP found that 59% of Americans ages 65 or older reported having more trouble paying for food, gas and medicine. |
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2 billion people suffer from hidden hunger, micronutrient deficiencies caused by poor diet, even when they consume adequate calories and protein. Hidden hunger compromises the immune system, increasing rates of disease and infection. (UN WFP, 2007)
862 million people do not have enough to eat - more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union combined. (FAO & The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2006) |
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Created: 24/12/2008 :: Updated: 24/12/2008 ::
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| Geelong Hydroponic Gardening | Planting | Plants | Hydro | Melbourne Hydroponic | Garden |
This group was established as a non-profit organisation dedicated to disseminating information about hydroponics and related topics to its members.
We are the largest hydroponic hobbyist group within Australia, proudly encompassing South Australian Hydroponic Gardening members as well. This group also encompasses aquaponic culture as well as hydroponic.
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Welcome to Geelong Hydroponic Gardening Inc.
 This group was established as a non-profit organisation dedicated to disseminating information about hydroponics and related topics to its members.
It is managed by a committee elected by its members and all office bearers serve in an honorary capacity.
We are the largest hydroponic hobbyist group within Australia, proudly encompassing South Australian Hydroponic Gardening members as well. This group also encompasses aquaponic culture as well as hydroponic.
The members of the Geelong Hydroponic Gardening Inc. enjoy monthly meetings. These meetings are held at the Geelong Botanical Garden meeting rooms at 9.30am on the 1st Sunday of each month, Feb-Nov., Dec. being our Christmas break-up. To find these rooms it is easier to use the back entrance off Holt Rd. Visitors are always welcome.
Members enjoy the free use of books, videos and dvd's from the Geelong Hydroponic Gardening Inc. Library on a monthly borrowing basis.
Farm visits provide an opportunity to help diversify members gardening interests.
Members also receive a bi-monthly newsletter and are invited to contribute items of interest. This is a great way to request specific information on articles.
Information talks are also provided to any interested clubs, societies and groups etc.
For further information please contact the society Secretary via our Contact Page.
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Created: 21/12/2008
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| The Bug Farm, your source for live food cultures and supplies. |
The Bug Farm grows and cultures foods, including tropical fish foods and live food cultures for Tropical Fish, Bettas, Dart Frogs, Geckos, Chameleons. EDITOR: fascinating site about all kind of bugs you can breed for fishes, some bugs you never heard of. Interesting informatin, pictures, this is the kind of sit that adds value to the Internet. Rated 5.
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| The Bug Farm, your source for live food cultures and supplies. |
The Bug Farm grows and cultures foods, including tropical fish foods and live food cultures for Tropical Fish, Bettas, Dart Frogs, Geckos, Chameleons. EDITOR: fascinating site about all kind of bugs you can breed for fishes, some bugs you never heard of. Interesting informatin, pictures, this is the kind of sit that adds value to the Internet. Rated 5.
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Created: 12/12/2008 :: Updated: 12/12/2008 ::
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| Aquaponics Free Magazine |
Practical Aquaponics for Everyone is a magazine about Aquaponics from a very practical viewpoint. It is our belief that anyone can build and run a successful Aquaponic system whether it is a hobby size or commercial size system.
Our magazine will help you build your Aquaponics system, and show you how to make it work and produce wonderful chemical free organic vegetables and fish. Our magazine will also help you source the best hardware and supplies to build and run your Aquaponics system.
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| Aquaponics Free Magazine |
Practical Aquaponics for Everyone is a magazine about Aquaponics from a very practical viewpoint. It is our belief that anyone can build and run a successful Aquaponic system whether it is a hobby size or commercial size system.
Our magazine will help you build your Aquaponics system, and show you how to make it work and produce wonderful chemical free organic vegetables and fish. Our magazine will also help you source the best hardware and supplies to build and run your Aquaponics system.
Rating: 3.80 (5 votes)
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Created: 09/10/2008 :: Updated: 02/03/2009 ::
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| Neptune Industries |
If there is ONE company in the aquaculture industry you should keep you eyes on, it it Neptune Industries: ecofriendly, non polluting aquaculture. Very interesting information. A must read!
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| Neptune Industries |
If there is ONE company in the aquaculture industry you should keep you eyes on, it it Neptune Industries: ecofriendly, non polluting aquaculture. Very interesting information. A must read!
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Created: 11/09/2008 :: Updated: 21/12/2008 ::
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| Tags: aquaculture Neptune Industries eco friendly |
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