Wednesday, May 22, 2024

City Agriculture - May 23, 2024

 Restoring Scotland’s Uplands - 25 years of experience in rebuilding a valley

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/20/a-mecca-for-rewilders-the-community-led-project-restoring-scotlands-southern-uplands
Editorial Comment:  rebuilding healthy ecological systems in distant places can make cities and the whole world more resilient

$1 billion, 6,000 acres for agrivoltaics in Ohio
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/ohio-greenlights-massive-solar-storage-and-agrivoltaics-project

Solar racking design specifically for agrivoltaics
https://cleantechnica.com/2024/03/22/gorgeous-agrivoltaic-system-gilds-the-rural-solar-lily/

American Solar Grazing Association - agrivoltaics, combining agriculture and solar power production
https://solargrazing.org/

The energy costs of controlled environment agriculture
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/03/27/vertical-farms-climate-energy/
If you need to get past the pay wall:  https://archive.ph/TrQqF
Editorial Comment:  In all the years I’ve been collecting these links I have found very few CEA businesses that thought about energy from the beginning

Orbital Farms “is a Circular Project Development company which is developing 200 large scale closed loop farms around the world in the next 10 years."
http://orbital.farm
Editorial Comment:  Orbital Farms is one of those few CEA businesses I mentioned above

The House of Green - buildings that bring nature inside
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240420-12-stunning-buildings-that-bring-nature-inside

World’s first zero waste restaurant
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0hs7sj4/world-s-first-zero-waste-restaurant-without-a-single-bin

Planning Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems:  From Soil to Soil By Julia Freedgood  (ISBN 9781032276861)
https://www.routledge.com/Planning-Sustainable-and-Resilient-Food-Systems-From-Soil-to-Soil/Freedgood/p/book/9781032276861

Making urban agriculture more sustainable
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/how-can-we-make-urban-agriculture-more-sustainable

"World’s largest coastal regeneration project” - mangroves for Dubai
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/travel/dubai-mangroves-design-spc
hat tip Bethany Leach Parmley

A microfarm in LA
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/15/urban-microfarm-farming-environment
The organization which helps homeowners go from lawn to microfarm in LA
https://www.cropswapla.org/