ren-ai-ssanceman-blog
ren-ai-ssanceman-blog
ren(AI)ssance man
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A waypoint of food, design, and innovation.  Join me as I explore aquaponics, urban food systems, and design.  Toss aside your Soylent and let's delve into communites faced with some of the most disruptive technologies of our time. On the dawn of this technological ren(AI)ssance, how will what we eat and how we eat it change?
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ren-ai-ssanceman-blog · 11 years ago
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Your source for vertical farming and urban agriculture news, business, and design.
Buzzword of the day: Agritecture.  Let's take a systems-based look at urban food.  It is impossible to ignore the built environment when seeking to actualize a more sustainable urban food paradigm and incorporating permaculture into a flexible model is one way to address that. Built space is, by traditional definition, inherently relatively inflexible with limited use. Human environments need to be seen as having potential to be complete ecosystems with net-positive externalities. Instead of wasting water and land resources in vast monocultures producing unhealthy foods, lets focus on passive benefits.  Air, water, and soil purification and enrichment is a starting point, but lets consider the benefits to communities.  Let's continue to centralize agricultural production in urban spaces in order to reap the benefits of advances in energy production, resource distribution, and much else besides.
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ren-ai-ssanceman-blog · 11 years ago
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Growing from the ashes? After one model fails, will a new one take its place?
Michigan State University is providing a three-year, $1.5 million commitment and faculty for the development of an urban farming project, said to make Detroit a leader in urban agricultural efforts. Backers say it’s expected to develop the city as a world center for urban food systems technology.
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ren-ai-ssanceman-blog · 11 years ago
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Is this the future we are eating towards?
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Oh, you live in the future and your chicken pot pie comes in pill form?
I’m sorry for your life.
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ren-ai-ssanceman-blog · 11 years ago
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more pics like this here :3
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ren-ai-ssanceman-blog · 11 years ago
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A meal complete with grass for toe wiggling
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lunch
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ren-ai-ssanceman-blog · 11 years ago
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1kin
 noun \ˈkin\
a: food cookers
b: table setters
c: garden pickers
d: life builders
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KINFOLK
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ren-ai-ssanceman-blog · 11 years ago
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Finding value(s) in a meal
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by scott andrew studios
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