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MIT CityFARM "Grow it HERE and eat it HERE" Project author or developer: Caleb Harper Where: US / Stati Uniti / Contea di Middlesex Website: www.mitcityfarm.com/ The future of global food production will mandate a paradigm shift from traditional practice to resource leveraged and environmentally optimized urban food growing solutions. The MIT CityFARM is an anti-disciplinary group of engineers, architects, urban planners, economists and plant scientists exploring and developing of high performance urban agricultural systems.Through innovative research and development of hydroponic, aquaponic and aeroponic production systems, novel environmental, diagnostic and networked sensing, control automation, autonomous delivery and harvest systems, data driven optimization and reductive energy design; MITCityFARM methodology has the potential to reduce water consumption for agriculture by 98%, eliminate chemical fertilizers and pesticides, double nutrient densities and reduce embodied energy in produce by a factor of ten.By fundamentally rethinking "grow it THERE and eat it HERE" to "grow it HERE and eat it HERE" we will dramatically reduce environmental contamination and depletion while creating jobs for a rapidly urbanizing global workforce and increasing access to diverse and affordable nutrient dense produce in our future cities. Art Cultural System Environment Communication Economics Education Politics Health Urban Development Food Agents of changes Covid
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MIT CityFARM "Grow it HERE and eat it HERE"
Project author or developer:Caleb Harper
Where:US / Stati Uniti / Contea di Middlesex
Website:www.mitcityfarm.com/
The future of global food production will mandate a paradigm shift from traditional practice toresource leveraged and environmentally optimized urban food growing solutions. The MIT CityFARMis an anti-disciplinary group of engineers, architects, urban planners, economists and plant scientistsexploring and developing of high performance urban agricultural systems.Through innovativeresearch and development of hydroponic, aquaponic and aeroponic production systems, novelenvironmental, diagnostic and networked sensing, control automation, autonomous delivery andharvest systems, data driven optimization and reductive energy design; MITCityFARM methodologyhas the potential to reduce water consumption for agriculture by 98%, eliminate chemical fertilizersand pesticides, double nutrient densities and reduce embodied energy in produce by a factor often.By fundamentally rethinking "grow it THERE and eat it HERE" to "grow it HERE and eat it HERE"we will dramatically reduce environmental contamination and depletion while creating jobs for arapidly urbanizing global workforce and increasing access to diverse and affordable nutrient denseproduce in our future cities.
Art
Cultural System
Environment
Communication
Economics
Education
Politics
Health
Urban Development
Food
Agents of changes
Covid
