vue - Why I create pop-up farms in my city | Roman Gaus | TEDxZurich
Urban agriculture has been real for decades, starting with the industrialization of Western Europe in the 20th century. Urban agriculture has been also well practiced in poor economies such as Cuba, where it serves as an important way of self-reliance. Today, with conventional agriculture "Big Ag" being at a cross-road in terms of its ecological impact on the environment and the increased food demand of a population growing to 9bn people by 2050, urban agriculture may very well be one key of a solution for the 21st century. As Roman explains, urban agriculture offers the solution to grow potentially enough food in the city to feed its entire population. What's more, it also creates healthier, wealthier and happier cities, offering consumers with fresh & quality food choices and access to better quality of life. Roman Gaus, Founder of UrbanFarmers Roman Gaus (32)- from corporate career to social entrepreneur & urban farmer. Roman's story is both fascinating and inspiring. When Roman returned from the States to Switzerland, he left a short but steep career with companies such as Procter & Gamble, Novartis and Franke Group. Yet, he brought with him an emerging concept about inner-city farming, which he had seen take a grass roots approach in US cities. Back in Switzerland, Roman was surprised by the proven, Swiss-engineered technology know-how of Aquaponic; a combination of fish and vegetable farming, ideally suited to grow locally grown & organic food without soil in the city -- the idea behind UrbanFarmers was born. Determined to drive economic, social and ecological impact, Roman is now founder & CEO of UrbanFarmers AG, a pioneering Spin-off from the University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Wädenswil that aims to bring sustainable urban agricultural practices into cities of the 21st century. Web: urbanfarmers.ch -- Twitter: @UrbanFarmersCH In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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That's great, more nutrient depleted food. I firmly believe plants need the full nutrient spectrum from the soil and the soil life to thrive and give us adequate nutrition. I can't help but think this is just another reductionist solution, just like the green revolution was. Why not just grow plants on composted food waste directly from the city and didn't we want to get rid of the horrible confined feeding operations? Why are fish suddenly different? I don't want to eat a fish that has never seen something else but floating poop particulates and blank walls. Horrendous, just like factory pigs and chickens.
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LOL! 800 kg fish - food for 100 people! Even if fish were 800 kg dry, which they are not, that would be 32 million calories, or 32,000 calories per person. At 2,000 cal/person/day, that is a 16 day supply of food calories. The fish crop would have to turn over 22 times per year. Your innumeracy is stunning!
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LOL! Feed 500 people on the space where 40 cars were parked? LOL. That's 12.5 per car. Not gonna happen.
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#GrowFoodWhereThePeopleLive I have loved this topic of rooftop gardens for some time now, and I love to hear another speaker present the value of this incredible topic.
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I wonder why they don't do rooftop farming it will help economicly and will provide fresh and nutritious food
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Urban Gardening is a good thing. But why should this project the fish have such a miserable be there in containers? Morally speaking, one should breed the fish in specially created fish ponds so that they have a decent life.
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Great idea.
Where does the fish food come from?
This is the moment the idealism breaks down.
Can such a biosphere also circuitously produce the fish food by use of human wastes, both consumer rubbish and bodily wastes?
I think I will look into improving this system beyond the mere facade of sustainability and empty righteousness it currently wears.
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Great: This is why humanities worst enemies fight it by evil laws and abuse of government powers and control They hate the worldpopulation growing - and do their very best - it's the first of their 10 Commandments chisseled in Georgian granite in 8 world languages - to murder more than 90% of the world population, to reduce it to a maximum of 500 million people. Just google search: "Georgia Guide Stones."
To murder us they invented the lie of VACCINATIONS, by which they inject us with all kinds of sicknesses, viruses, and poisons, so they guarantee future patients, which make them filthy rich while murdering us at the same time. Genius, right? Read Eastace Mullins book "MURDER by INJECTION" Download it for free: http://humanbeingsfirst.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/cacheof-eustace_mullins___murder_by_injection__1988_.pdf
They invented PSYCHIATRY! This is an enormous crime against humanity! Based on... LIES! As Dr. Szasz wrote: "Pscyhiatry The Science of Lies!" (title of one of his books) Watch the video's of my playlist: "
Exposing the crimes of MAFFIA Pharma-Psychiatry & the STATE!
Start with: CCHR Co-Founder Dr. Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus The next video's will start top play automatically.
They organise wars. And profit by them enormously by financing all parties.
They poison us by Geneticlly Manipulating = poisoning our food and Monopolizing it on top...because their criminal judges, these worst criminal clowns in black dresses performing their RUBBERSTAMPING circus, have allowed them to patent food. This is a hughe crime against humanity by this worst filth, this worst scumm, this worst vermin on the earth, the judges and judtices, these worst sons of vipers as Jesus Christ called them.
And they lie to us about the environment. So, they hate more CO2 and therefore made CO2 into looking like a poison, through their media and entertainment industry, educational control etc. CO2 is PLANTFOOD! You get it? That is why these NWO powers hate more CO2, which is God's provision, and nature's way to provide for a growing world population!
After the end of the articially created so called Cold War which cost the world trillions, (Read Eustace Mullins book "The 5 Trillion Cold War Hoax." Download it for free from: http://www.scribd.com/doc/6760988/The-5-Trillion-Cold-War-Hoax-By-Eustace-Mullins ) which went straight into the pockets of these liars, these banksters who own - by treason of our governments - the US Federal Reserve Bank and most of the world's Central banks (after murdering Saddam and Ghadaffi for one reason: to get the Central banks of Iraq and Libya into their devilish claws...and now are working on getting the Central Banks from Syria and Iran and North Korea) , these banksters and their Club of Rome invented another enemy...which would be a war, like the war of terror and the hate speech new crime the Jews invented, but since they temselves are the worst guilty of hating the whole world with a demonic hatred, labeling all non-Jews animals that God made to be their slaves... etc etc. as taught the Jews in their most authoritative books, the Talmud, they have managed (how criminaly insane and treacherous our lawmakers are - to hell with them all. Do it Lord!) to make themselves excempt as so called 'victims.' And most Christians have been brainwashed to believe these sons of the devil as Jesus Christ called them (John 8: 44; read verse 32-59) are 'the Chosen People of God?!'
Read: The Books by Jack Mohr http://israelect.com/reference/JackMohr/
Read: http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/talmud2.htm
Read all the articles by Jewish born and raised convert to Christ, brother Nathanael Kapner, and watch all his video's here on youtube. http://realjewnews.com/
Read & watch all video's of Jewish born and raised convert to Christ, Benjamin Freedman. Start here: http://www.rense.com/general34/amaz.htm
http://www.getpdfbook.com/PDF-rensecom-the-amazing-warnings-of-benjamin-freedman-526872289f9c88cb458b459d/
Shocking for most brainwashed Christians: Jesus was NOT a Jew: http://www.henrymakow.com/jesus_was_not_a_jew_--benjamin.html
The Bible is NOT a Jewish book: http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/word.htm
Okay back to the new enemy the Club of Rome invented: The people of the world have all been declared an enemy to the world by producing CO2 and thus causing so called 'Global Warming!"
This lie guaranteed the people's willingness to allow more and more of their freedom, prosperity, productivity and LIFE to be robbed, because OF THIS LIEING ARGUEMENT: "If we waited until the lies were proven to be true (never) it would be too late for the planet to recover." This lie of people who are RED -SOCIALIST in dirty devil's character but look GREEN as they dressed the truth about themselves and their ideas in GREEN, have been swallowed by the Jewish controled governments of the world.
WE SUFFER and PAY in their already filthy full pockets through CARBON-taxes etc. to FIX A PROBLEM THAT DOES NOT EXIST, EXCEPT IN THE MINDS OF THE DEVILS WHO HATE MANKIND AND WANT TO MURDER US ALL...LET THEM START WITH REMOVING THEMSELVES FROM THE PLANET IF THEY FEEL IT IS OVERPOPULATED!
CO 2 does NOT cause global warming! It is the other way around from the 'hokeystick' theory promoted by the devil Al Gore, who got an Oscar (this showsd you who controls the world, when liars are rewarded and honoured! Obama is no exception with his 'Nobel price for peace! WE DO NOT WANT OBAMA'S KIND OF PEACE, THAT IS WRITTEN ON GRAVESTONES ALL OVERV THE WORLD: "RIP - Requiem In Pace" Latin for: Rest In Peace. NO OBAMA, That kind of peace I am not ready for, but I wsh it for you befor you ruin the USA even further than you already have!)
CO2 is plantfood and more CO2 is SUPER for the growing of food of a growing world population. Mind you: God commanded the people to multiply and subdue the arth. He never recalled this command! It is still His command.
For video's that show the truth about the Environmental Issue, watch the video's of my playlist: "Climate change is natural. Global Warming is a Marxist lie" http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD08EBE2F7A2FE159
You may also start here: Global Hoax the next video's will start playing automatically.
The consequences of people disobeying His command to multiply are becoming more and more visible!
By the way, the crime of abortion already robbed the USA of the man God had planned to be the present president! Prophet Paul Jackson shares this. God told him that he had planned andother man to be the present president but he was aborted! God only knows how the world would have looked by now if we would not have aborted a single human being. The inventor of a cure for Alzheimer. The composer of.. The president of the USA etc. And possibly the woman God planned to be my wife? Enough. Tose in control of this world have to be removed. They are our worst enemies! WE will have to pray harder for God to do so. He did not give His children, the Christians, power to do it. This is why the world,does not take Christians seriously. We are allowed to bark but not to bite... This is hard, especially when God, Who has retained this power and task to Himself, keeps sitting on His hands as an impotent Omnipotent!
He is waiting for the right moment. He is not limited by time. I am...we are... so we want Him to act now, especially when every 5 minutes one of His children - a Christian - is murdered for their faith in Christ every 5 minutes by the worst criminal organisation of the nation He instituted and gave it power: the government! He did so that it would represent Him on the earth, and rule, judge etc. as He is Spirit and not visible by our natural senses. (the effects of Him are visible - read Romans chapter 1 in the Bible) . But the governments motivated by all kids of ungodly motives, quickly became the worst enemies of the people! -
when you said aquaponics i thought about the magic closet
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Great Talk!
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I agree with that idea and someday i will have my own urban garden .
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It is also worth mentioning the urban-heat-island effect in the context of urban farming. Cities are hotter than countryside summer because plant evapourate water to keep themselves cool *gross oversimplification* The main problem with mixing plants and buildings is damp and maintenence (gardening) but I think more could be done to change this. Could we automate urban farming to reduce labour cost for example ?
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not all the food that is produced at the farm gets to the market in a saleable state
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Great Ted talk on urban farming, thanks!
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I've seen info where the fish food is from duckweed, that easily grows in small pools in the same structures. Go to 2:05 in the video 'Farming in Da Hood' on Urban Farming Guys.
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Time mark 7:32 "food for 100 people." While I appreciate the concepts here, the numbers do not even come close to adding up. 100 people at 1,500 calories per day at 365 days per year equals about 55 million calories per year. Even if 800 kg of fish were pure fat at 9 calories per gram, that would be only about 7 million calories per year. And 5 tons of veggies don't contribute any significant calories, a million or so at best. Gardening for calories is extremely difficult.
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Because we have to account for the 1 billion that today go to bed hungry, without having eaten. People will begin to live longer- There is a lot of waste from transitioning from rural living where the production usually happens, here is more waste under transport, and when people enter the middle class income group, they will begin to eat more meat. 1 kg of animal protein takes 4 kg of vegetable protein (dry weight) eggs. Beef it lots more, all the way up 18 kg of feed per one kilo produced. :)
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Why does a 50% larger population require 100% more food?
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