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Interesting TEDx Talk on Aquaponics |
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Friday, 16 September 2011 |
 In a TEDx talk on Aquaponics of March 2011, Charlie Price of Aquaponics UK explores the role aquaponics can play in the future of our collective food supply.
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Cool design: The Phyto-Purification Bathroom |
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Tuesday, 17 May 2011 |
 Jun Yasumotos Phyto-Purification Bathroom is a nice design draft of a very small, very local, very closed-cycle, ecologically engineered private bathroom system. The aim of it was, to "bring to public knowledge this kind of water recycling process and eventually start a debate over the possibility to integrate it inside our houses", he writes.
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Comment on: Can nuclear power be part of the solution? |
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Friday, 08 April 2011 |
In its recent edition, The Solutions Journal asks this question in the context of the Fukushima disaster (Vol. 2, Issue 3, Apr 05, 2011 ).
The authors R. Costanza, C. Cleveland, B. Cooperstein and I. Kubiszewski argue that the external costs of the nuclear need to be reflected in the prices for electricity generated by all power plants. Costs for the risk of accidents, the safe disposal of waste and for climate impacts. They conclude that the market mechanism will help to find out "whether nuclear power
plants, or some subset of nuclear power plants, should be part of the
energy solution".
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New centre for sustainable water management services |
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Friday, 25 February 2011 |
cewas will be officially inaugurated in Willisau, close to Lucerne (Switzerland), on 18 of May 2011. The centre aims to combine advanced education and
support to start up a business. It builds up SMEs that can offer expertise in
the field of sustainable sanitation and integrated water management on a
national and international level.
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Fish production in the "city of the future"? |
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Monday, 27 December 2010 |
Closing water, nutrient and energy cycles within cities by urban farms for fish and vegetable production
By A. Graber, A. Schoenborn* and R. Junge
*Corresponding author:
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 The potential of urban farming to help feed future generations is more and more recognized today. Rooftop- or backyard gardening, small and medium-scale aquaponic facilities run near waste heat sources, urban community gardening or even multi-stories farming in urban areas are going mainstream (again).
In this article we are introducing some of the work in this field that has been done at the Institute of Natural Resource Science (INRS) of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Waedenswil, Switzerland.
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Vertical Farming - an update in "The Economist" |
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Thursday, 23 December 2010 |
"The Economist" of Dec. 9, 2010, critically analyzes the Vertical Farm concept, as it is being promoted by Dr. Dickson Despommier. The authors highlight the claims and difficulties of this daring vision and point ways how parts of it could be realized in our inner cities.
Full article: http://www.economist.com/node/17647627
More about the Vertical Farm concept: http://www.verticalfarm.com/
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Results of IEES Workshop, Amsterdam, Sep. 2-3, 2010 |
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Friday, 26 November 2010 |
 The presentations of the 2010 IEES Workshop "Ecological
Engineering and the Urban Landscape" are now available at
http://www.waterharmonica.nl/workshops/2010_09_iees_amsterdam/index.htm
The collection was compiled by Ruud Kampf, Waternet. Thank you, Ruud.
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Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management Toolbox |
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Monday, 08 November 2010 |
 The Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management (SSWM) Toolbox is a free and open source tool to develop capacity for
sustainable sanitation and water management at the local level.
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Biotope City - an online journal |
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Wednesday, 08 September 2010 |
 The "city as a specific form of nature which embeds itself as much as possible in natural cycles" is the vision of biotope-city.net. The website focusses on up-to-date developments in greening cities, e.g., vertical gardens. It offers lots of articles for free - contributions are welcome.
Go there and enjoy!
http://www.biotope-city.net
Source: Helga Fassbinder @ the IEES workshop 2010 in Amsterdam
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