Daozen
28th May 2016, 12:58
http://www.sciencealert.com/this-dutch-town-will-grow-its-own-food-live-off-grid-and-handle-its-own-waste
This idea may not be perfect, but at least we're starting to talk about the subject. Maybe we should go even more low tech, and make a similar village with hobbit homes. An underground skyscraper based on green homes would be even better.
ReGen Villages wants to harness the power of today's technology to create "off-grid capable neighbourhoods" that provide the comforts of a regular modern lifestyle, but which are entirely self-reliant and sustainable: growing their own food, generating their own energy, managing waste locally, and recycling water.
"We're really looking at starting off as the Tesla of eco-villages," ReGen Villages CEO James Ehrlich told Adele Peters at Fast Company. "We are redefining residential real-estate development by creating these regenerative neighbourhoods, looking at first these greenfield pieces of farmland where we can produce more organic food, more clean water, more clean energy, and mitigate more waste than if we just left that land to grow organic food or do permaculture there."
The idea is that by combining sustainable farming and land management with an independently run tech infrastructure, ReGen Villages will be "power positive", effectively generating surplus energy that can be fed back into surrounding electricity grids, and growing about half of all the food the inhabitants eat.
This idea may not be perfect, but at least we're starting to talk about the subject. Maybe we should go even more low tech, and make a similar village with hobbit homes. An underground skyscraper based on green homes would be even better.
ReGen Villages wants to harness the power of today's technology to create "off-grid capable neighbourhoods" that provide the comforts of a regular modern lifestyle, but which are entirely self-reliant and sustainable: growing their own food, generating their own energy, managing waste locally, and recycling water.
"We're really looking at starting off as the Tesla of eco-villages," ReGen Villages CEO James Ehrlich told Adele Peters at Fast Company. "We are redefining residential real-estate development by creating these regenerative neighbourhoods, looking at first these greenfield pieces of farmland where we can produce more organic food, more clean water, more clean energy, and mitigate more waste than if we just left that land to grow organic food or do permaculture there."
The idea is that by combining sustainable farming and land management with an independently run tech infrastructure, ReGen Villages will be "power positive", effectively generating surplus energy that can be fed back into surrounding electricity grids, and growing about half of all the food the inhabitants eat.