@ericvanular BMG's simulation project has another advantage ahead: Energy Security. Consider large scale energy distributors now experience catastrophic black-outs that affect whole provinces, states and regions. The Ice Storm (1998) in Eastern Canada and Northeast USA states is not a distant memory when we see the affects from a recent November wind storm in Quebec that shut down power to half a million people in the province. Not only economics was affected with industry and transportation having no options, but whole families in 300,000 homes in the province had children, older adults and vulnerable family members at risk had power disruption persisted. Energy security is ahead with project like BMG.

Hi @sanchali, I like your mission with Joro, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has."

I love your Team bios, they're fun and inspiring for me. Glad to find you today!

@briparks I saw vertical farming exhibited at the CNE in Toronto this summer by Ripple Farms. Saw your post and found a message from them that they will run their second vertical farming bootcamp on November 23rd in Toronto at Seneca College. I was pretty excited by this new way to farm sustainability too. I like the points you make on the versatility to grow food in non-traditional places like urban streetscape, shipping containers and discarded agricultural lands, and mitigate the affects from weather, insects or disease that traditional farms experience. Ontario agricultural land is being sold to land development builders for residential homes and communities outside Toronto on rich growing earth. What about future food production when growing land size is depleted, I wondered. You talk about a method that may be the way out of our modern preoccupations in a sustainable way.
Ripple Farms bootcamp workshop is on vertical farming, aquaponics and the technology behind it:
Newnham Campus, Saturday, November 23rd, 8:30am - 5pm
Ripple Farms, 192 Spadina Ave. Toronto M5T 2C7
Olivia Pasut, Vertical Farming Bootcamp opasut@ripplefarms.ca

That's the voice of 28 nations making a commitment. I look forward to hearing from the Dec 2 summit in Madrid, where the EU will work toward making Europe "climate neutral" where no greenhouse gases beyond what can be absorbed - by 2050.

@Zo The climate similarity mapping gets us close to home, with a sense for change we now know we are capable of doing, based on 2020 society changes we are already doing. I hope many others take a look.

Madhvi Ramani writes in The Week about the changes caused by the coronavirus on the world and environment. Can there be a positive effect on human behaviour that is gained from this situation? Ramani writes there are significant environment beneficial ways it has changed cities, countries and people. One example: “people on a seven-day cruise produce roughly the same carbon footprint as they would during 18 days on land, not to mention the damage ships wreck on fragile ocean ecosystems.” Are we in a period of unexpected ways that shift human behaviors worldwide? Can we learn from this experience to capture what is good about it, and collectively change our energy use because it benefits us?
https://theweek.com/articles/899439/coronavirus-environmental-wakeup-call

@harry0123 Freiburg is an eye-opener for the way local people gained a voice, and made changes to build and live in a sustainable community. It's worth reading twice for the many ideas that develop out of civic involvement and community commitment. It is inspiring.

@ocean-based The BGC-ARGO Executive Summary and frontiersin.org article demonstrate collaboration is a successful key to intensify ocean improvement projects. This collective effort brings a thoughtful research-rich reason to invest.

@Zo The climate similarity mapping gets us close to home, with a sense for change we now know we are capable of doing, based on 2020 society changes we are already doing. I hope many others take a look.

Hi @sanchali, I like your mission with Joro, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has."

I love your Team bios, they're fun and inspiring for me. Glad to find you today!

Madhvi Ramani writes in The Week about the changes caused by the coronavirus on the world and environment. Can there be a positive effect on human behaviour that is gained from this situation? Ramani writes there are significant environment beneficial ways it has changed cities, countries and people. One example: “people on a seven-day cruise produce roughly the same carbon footprint as they would during 18 days on land, not to mention the damage ships wreck on fragile ocean ecosystems.” Are we in a period of unexpected ways that shift human behaviors worldwide? Can we learn from this experience to capture what is good about it, and collectively change our energy use because it benefits us?
https://theweek.com/articles/899439/coronavirus-environmental-wakeup-call

A glass covering for solar panels introduces architectural beauty to clean energy function, by "a wall of photovoltaic panels (that) will save the building an estimated 18% annual energy consumption," at Red River College. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/featured-reports/article-from-the-wings-of-a-butterfly-comes-inspiration-for-winnipeg-building/

That's the voice of 28 nations making a commitment. I look forward to hearing from the Dec 2 summit in Madrid, where the EU will work toward making Europe "climate neutral" where no greenhouse gases beyond what can be absorbed - by 2050.

@briparks An interesting video to explain how vertical farming is a "closed loop hydraulic system."

@briparks The Vertical Farming Bootcamp still has space for November 23rd. Is anyone interested in building food sustainability in a hands-on experience? Ripple Farm is prompt in returning messages. $399. +tax Cdn $. I can see this local farming technology taking off.

@briparks I saw vertical farming exhibited at the CNE in Toronto this summer by Ripple Farms. Saw your post and found a message from them that they will run their second vertical farming bootcamp on November 23rd in Toronto at Seneca College. I was pretty excited by this new way to farm sustainability too. I like the points you make on the versatility to grow food in non-traditional places like urban streetscape, shipping containers and discarded agricultural lands, and mitigate the affects from weather, insects or disease that traditional farms experience. Ontario agricultural land is being sold to land development builders for residential homes and communities outside Toronto on rich growing earth. What about future food production when growing land size is depleted, I wondered. You talk about a method that may be the way out of our modern preoccupations in a sustainable way.
Ripple Farms bootcamp workshop is on vertical farming, aquaponics and the technology behind it:
Newnham Campus, Saturday, November 23rd, 8:30am - 5pm
Ripple Farms, 192 Spadina Ave. Toronto M5T 2C7
Olivia Pasut, Vertical Farming Bootcamp opasut@ripplefarms.ca