[p2p-research] resilient detroit

[Samuel Rose]

Re:farm the city  yes familiar and I'll mirror content there, too.
That is an effort in South America, yes?

I'll be sure to announce via blog, too of course.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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