Friday, September 6, 2019

City Agriculture - September 6, 2019

How urban farms could solve future food problems
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2019/6/21/how-urban-farms-could-solve-future-food-problems

Tenth of an acre permaculture garden
https://returntonow.net/2017/12/23/urban-garden-produces-7000-pounds-food-per-year-tenth-acre-without-synthetic-fertilizer/
Editorial Comment:  I remember that New Alchemy Institute once produced a study that showed you could grow enough vegetables for a person for a year on about a thirteenth of an acre but my memory may be faulty and it was back in the 1970s.

Floating dairy farm in the Netherlands
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/dairy-farming-at-sea/

Utrecht’s bus stops have green roofs for bees and other ecosystem services
https://www.facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/686362638492157/UzpfSTE1MTEyODQ5NjY6MTAyMTQzMDYxOTc0MzgwOTc/

The Coral: Home Algae Farming
http://ulr.im/pages/thecoral.html
https://inhabitat.com/risd-student-designs-a-micro-algae-farm-for-home-use/

Green city street furniture purifies air with moss
https://www.dezeen.com/2018/03/21/moss-covered-citytree-bench-combats-urban-pollution-london-uk/
https://greencitysolutions.de/en/solutions/#aircleanair
https://greencitysolutions.de/en/

Artificial water purification, air freshening, and energy producing “trees” for Ho Chi Minh City park
https://www.aspect-studios.com/insights/lava-aspect-studios-win-central-park-competition/
https://www.l-a-v-a.net/projects/central-park-hcmc/
https://inhabitat.com/sustainable-central-park-with-energy-producing-trees-unveiled-for-ho-chi-minh-city/

Charles River Floating Wetland
https://www.charlesfloatingwetland.com
Editorial Comment:  John Todd’s Healing Earth is a great introduction to ecology systems building:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576932/healing-earth-by-john-todd/9781623172985/
My review of the book:  https://solarray.blogspot.com/2019/03/healing-earth-through-waters.html

Vertical forest building for Cairo Science Center
https://inhabitat.com/vertical-forest-buildings-designed-by-stefano-boeri-set-to-center-new-cairo-administrative-district/
https://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/en/

Aquaculture and solar production - Aqua-PV
https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/news/2019/aqua-pv-project-shrimps-combines-aquaculture-and-photovoltaics.html
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/08/29/shrimp-fish-solar-a-recipe-for-success/

Paris to open world’s largest rooftop urban farm
https://www.facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/944372802568104/UzpfSTE1MTEyODQ5NjY6MTAyMTQ2NTQ5MzUxOTYzMjM/

"A Greenhouse Large Enough to Feed the Eastern Seaboard” - or The Attack of the Giant Greenhouses!!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/03/business/appharvest-greenhouse-kentucky-agriculture.html