vue - TEDxBrainport 2012 - Gertjan Meeuws - Indoor farming, Plant Paradise
TEDxBrainport 2012 - Making the Future Gertjan Meeuws is a pretty stubborn Dutch horticultural engineer, convinced that the way we are producing our food today, won't be a sustainable solution for feeding the world of tomorrow. Born in The Netherlands in 1962, he finished the University of Applied Sciences in 's-Hertogenbosch in 1983. Ever since, he has been involved in improving the performances of crops by combining his plant physiological knowledge with developing mathematical models and disrupting insights. Gertjan says we are using too much land, too much water, too much pesticides and too much transportation to deliver fresh food. He is managing partner of PlantLab, where he and his partners are not looking for improving the existing supply chain, but for creating a totally new and better one, based on their invention: Plant Paradise. Food - Can we feed the world? About TEDxBrainport 2012 - Making the Future There are many challenges in the world today. Hunger and disease continue to affect large parts of the developing world. Financial instability is halting progress in developed countries. We're running out of resources and changing the natural world in ways we don't totally understand. How can we make a better future? Discover the next big bordering-on-crazy ideas for humanity at TEDxBrainport 2012. About TEDx. TEDx was created in the spirit of TED's mission, "ideas worth spreading." The program is designed to give communities, organizations and individuals the opportunity to stimulate dialogue through TED-like experiences at the local level. At TEDx events, a screening of TEDTalks videos -- or a combination of live presenters and TEDTalks videos -- sparks deep conversation and connections. TEDx events are fully planned and coordinated independently, on a community-by-community basis.
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Monsanto would love this.
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Can you even imagine how much greenhouse gasses will be cut because we arent transporting our food all over the world?? And fresh local food wherever you live? Even in a desert? Fucking wow. And it being right underneath the store or restaurant or your home???? I mean, you can all say it doesn't work but it looks like it really fucking works. I believe facts more than fear.
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What about pollination? It can't happen indoors without insects.
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Give this man some water. Can't stand the mouth noises. Good talk though ;)
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why are we not funding this?!?!
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USA gonna starve in coming Ice Age; but, we got O'bummer Care and its participants don't have to work other then cashing welfare checks. Nothing like 20 Trillion in debt and no one wanting to work shoveling snow.
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What kind of power would be used for these labs? Solar I hope.
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I have a lengthy response at Permies dot com.
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You have any idea how much this can solve famine globally!..
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We are something?, we are bloody humans! like you!.
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Cool! Very interesting!
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Congrats
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Damn.. I have to admit.. The Dutch are something.
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Very nice informative vid. A big step in reducing our carbon footprint and towards self/co sustainability. Keep up the good work guys!
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Please team up with Pieter Hoff of Groasis and rapidly spread food forests across the planet. Thank you for your historic work. Please also think about sharing some of what you know about growing plants with the public.
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This is huge!
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el futuro agrícola ya en marcha!
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Great video. Thanks! I am trying to reconcile the shift away from "natural" growing environments to ones that use socially and environmentally responsible means to feed growing cities. By no means do I think that this is it for agriculture, but a hybrid of vertical farming and permaculture sounds ideal to me!
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