AÑO
2017
CATEGORÍA
Hogar
OBJETIVOS
Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles
PAL. CLAVE
Self-sustaining, sustainability, city making
PAÍS
United States of America
CRÉDITOS
Stanford University
LINK
http://www.regenvillages.com/
ReGen Village
An entire neighborhood that will grow its own food, power itself, and handle its own waste.
The neighborhood will be the first ReGen Village, a new type of community designed to be fully self-sufficient, growing its own food, making its own energy, and handling its own waste in a closed loop.
Any household waste that can be composted will feed livestock or soldier flies. The soldier flies will feed fish, and fish waste will fertilize an aquaculture system that produces fruit and vegetables for the homes. Seasonal gardens will be fertilized by waste from the livestock.
By using the most advanced methods for growing food—a combination of aeroponics, aquaponics, permaculture, food forests, and high-yield organic farming—the neighborhood will grow many times more food than a traditional farm of the same size, with fewer resources. Aquaponics, for example, can produce 10 times as much produce on the same amount of land, with 90% less water.