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Interesting TEDx Talk on Aquaponics

Interesting TEDx Talk on Aquaponics

In a TEDx talk on Aquaponics of March 2011, Charlie Price of Aquaponics UK explores the role aquaponics can play in the future of our collective food supply. His nice, clear and interesting presentation is available on...
Interesting TEDx Talk on Aquaponics

Cool design: The Phyto-Purification Bathroom

Jun Yasumotos Phyto-Purification Bathroom is a nice design draft of a very small, very local, very closed-cycle, ecologically engineered private bathroom system. The aim of it was, to “bring to public knowledge this kind of water recycling process and eventually...
Interesting TEDx Talk on Aquaponics

Comment on: Can nuclear power be part of the solution?

In its recent edition, The Solutions Journal asks this question in the context of the Fukushima disaster (Vol. 2, Issue 3, Apr 05, 2011 ). The authors R. Costanza, C. Cleveland, B. Cooperstein and I. Kubiszewski argue that the external costs of the nuclear need to be...
Interesting TEDx Talk on Aquaponics

Fish production in the “city of the future”?

The potential of urban farming to help feed future generations is more and more recognized today. Rooftop- or backyard gardening, small and medium-scale aquaponic facilities run near waste heat sources, urban community gardening or even multi-stories farming in urban...
Interesting TEDx Talk on Aquaponics

Vertical Farming – an update in “The Economist”

“The Economist” of Dec. 9, 2010, critically analyzes the Vertical Farm concept, as it is being promoted by Dr. Dickson Despommier. The authors highlight the claims and difficulties of this daring vision and point ways how parts of it could be realized in...