Feed Your Family Fresh Food And Fish Yourself With GLOBE No Matter Where You Live
In 2050, the world population is projected to reach more than 9 billion people – and more than 50% of us will then live in the city. UrbanFarmers AG is a company committed to helping solve the world’s impending Food Security challenge through the development of urban, decentralized farm systems in cities. It aims to revolutionize the way food is grown in the 21st century – for people, planet and not just for profit..
Together with its design and product strategy partner Conceptual Devices, UrbanFarmers AG has developed GLOBE (hedron), a unique geodesic rooftop farm design structure which is built using natural, renewable materials such as bamboo for its central structural elements. Inside the structure, you will be utilizing UrbanFarmers AG proprietary Aquaponic system technology, growing both fish and plants in natural synergy with each other. One GLOBE (hedron) could feed a family of 4 with fresh fish and vegetables, salads & herbs – year-round.
GLOBE (hedron) has already entered the global design Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2012. Awards will be given to designs that have significant potential to solve humanities most pressing problems.Having enough food to go around has always been a vexing issue for humanity, and while modern agriculture has greatly stabilized our food supply, it comes with a host of negative environmental consequences.
As the world population climbs towards 9 billion people by 2050, more than half of those people will live in urban areas. So, how can we produce food in an economical and ecologically sustainable fashion as we shift away from agrarian societies?
This rooftop structure will house fish and plants, growing in harmony to nourish each other. It utilizes aquaponics, a marriage of aquaculture (fish cultivation) and hydroponics (soil-free, water-based agriculture). What makes aquaponics innovative is its closed-loop recycling of wastewater from fish tanks to fertilize plants. After absorbing the nutrients, clean aerated water returns back to the fish tanks and the cycle repeats again.
Recirculating aquaponics systems are relatively uncommon in the U.S., but in Australia, frequent drought and DIY enthusiasm have propelled aquaponics into a bona fide movement. It’s easy to see why, when you compare the costs and benefits of an aquaponics system to conventional methods. A single five-foot tower can produce over 200 heads of lettuce a year, while using 80–90% less water than a conventional soil-based system. Aquaponics systems are compact, cheap to construct, and require no fertilizers or pesticides.
The GLOBE (hedron) project is still in its prototyping phase, but could transform aquaponics from a niche gardening exercise to a mainstream urban farming system. The creators promise a bountiful harvest of 400 kg of vegetables and 100 kg of fish each year, providing food for 16 people. Insulating panels would ensure year-round production, even in cooler weather. The dome is designed for easy shipping and assembly, and will be constructed with renewable materials where possible, like bamboo.
Do you have a flat, unused roof that you’d be willing to install an aquaponics dome on? Would you be willing to get your hands wet in return for hyper-fresh veggies and seafood? The GLOBE (hedron) dome is wonderfully creative alternative to our current food system, and we’re excited to see where it progresses.
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Whistler Blowers, Insiders
Sounds wonderful…..
First you have to remove the chemtrails from the sky…..
All that poison is in the air and landing on everything exposed on the ground…..
and, of course, the roof tops.