[p2p-research] resilient detroit

[Michel Bauwens]

superb work sam, when it's operational, don't forget to announce it via our
blog ...

are you familiar with refarm the city ..?

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > A RESILIENT DETROIT?
> >
> > We have a downtown core and then we clearly have an outer ring, the
> question
> > is how do you link those two?" Douglass Diggs, interim executive director
> > Detroit Land Bank (in charge of Detroit's downsizing).
> >
> > http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/
>
> Thanks Michel,
>
>
> For me, this summer, my primary focus is developing highly modular and
> replicable open source techology for indoor and outdoor urban
> agriculture.
>
> Our first effort, here in Lansing, MI (about 100 miles away from
> Detroit) is http://www.appropedia.org/Food_Commons_Rain_Water_Hydroponics
>
> This is outdoor food production of produce, using an intelligent
> rainwater/gravity fed irrigation system. The same system will also be
> usable for indoor/outdoor full hydroponics. This is designed for
> produce optimization (getting the best production per-species out of
> produce) and for replicability of results.
>
> Then next step once this is developed and working, will be to deploy
> on vacant land around the city, and create multiple indoor
> installations, for year round food production. Plus, we can adapt to
> high tunnel/hoop house production.
>
> We'll document the growing sharing and other economies while
> developing the technology and food production.
>
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