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thefifthseason@venera.social
TheFifthSeason

A study from the University of Michigan looked at how much CO2 was produced when growing food in different types of urban farms and found that, on average, a serving of food made from traditional farms creates 0.07kg of CO2.The impact on the environment is almost five times higher at 0.34kg per portion for individual gardens, such as vegetable patches or allotments.

The majority of the emissions do not come from the growing of the food themselves, the scientists say, but from the infrastructure needed to allow the food to be grown.

#Farming #CO2 #Homegrown
Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than those grown conventionally

Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than those grown conventionally

The study found individual garden infrastructure responsible for increased levels of CO2

waynerad@diasp.org
Wayne Radinsky

"Interstellar Lab: We develop and commercialize biofarming platforms combining AI, advanced hardware and bioscience to supply plant based ingredients at scale on Earth and in space."

So from what I can tell, the idea here is they make farming "pods", called "Biopods". They are 5.3 meters (17.4 feet) in diameter and 2.6 meters (8.7 feet) tall. The inside is a climate-controlled environment that can recreate a wide range of climates, whatever is optimal for the food being grown. Which is grown in a modular aeroponics system. It recycles water and captures CO2 and light from the sun. AI algorithms monitor 50+ sensors and use microcontrollers to adapt the pod in real time.

"We focus on plant physiology and phytochemistry to enhance the synthesis of specific secondary metabolites by the plants."

The focus on "metabolites" makes more sense when you realize this is being done by the Robertet Group, a French manufacturer of food flavorings and fragrances.

The "space" part about the NASA Deep Space Food Challenge, which apparently is a thing. They plan to deliver their first system next year. Interestingly the system they plan to deliver includes insects. A closed-loop system with microgreens, vegetables, mushrooms, and insects. Supposed to be able to feed astronauts on long-term space missions.

Interstellar Lab

#solidstatelife #astronomy #farming #agriculture #aeroponics

Interstellar Lab

Interstellar Lab designs, manufactures and sells advanced controlled-environment biofarms for sustainable farming on Earth and life-support in Space. Our mission is to preserve life on Earth and expand it to Space.

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aljazeera@squeet.me
Al Jazeera (unofficial)

What's behind Iraq's water crisis? | People & Power Documentary

Iraq is running out of water. It is the fifth most vulnerable nation to the impacts of climate change, according to the United Nations. Temperatures have ris...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #ClimateChange #Drought #Farming #Iraq #IraqDocumentary #Oil #Politics #WaterWars #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines
What's behind Iraq's water crisis? | People & Power Documentary

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danie10@squeet.me
Danie

OpenFarm is a free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge: Open-Source is not just Software

OpenFarm website page showing a search box, a survey button for seeing what type of gardener you are, and tiled photos with titles tomatoes, UF micro tom tomato, Thai Basil, Heirloom tomato, lettuce, and potato.
They provide a platform for expert and beginner farmers and gardeners to share their knowledge in the form of Growing Guides – structured, community generated, single-author documents that describe how to grow a Crop based on specific environmental conditions and growing practices. Compatibility Scoring between Users and Guides allows high quality and relevant information to be discovered quickly.

The concept of OpenFarm originated in September of 2013 in the FarmBot Whitepaper by Rory Aronson. The idea was to build a centralized, structured, and open dataset that described how to grow plants based on specific environmental conditions and growing practices. This database would be the knowledge for FarmBot to function, and it was necessary to build from the ground up because nothing like it existed.

They are a global service that aims to break down borders through the open sharing of knowledge, increase participation in the food system, and help everyone become a better farmer or gardener.

They believe that the open sharing of knowledge – especially that for growing food and taking care of our environment – can significantly raise our quality of life and reduce our negative impact on the earth. As a project with openness at their core, they’re striving towards organizational and financial transparency; accessibility of our data and source code; and openness to all ideas, people, and perspectives. Their source code is on GitHub under the MIT license.

See https://openfarm.cc/en
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