permaculture

[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

OMG rock dust, granite yet! Mouthwatering soil amendment.

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On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:

> How Singapore Is Creating More Land for Itself
> https://www.nytimes.com/…/how-singapore-is-creating-more-la…
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/magazine/how-singapore-is-creating-more-land-for-itself.html?smid=tw-share&_r=2>
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> Wow!
> A few excerpts:
> 4 GWatt!
> "Last October, to test a proposal from two government agencies, Singapore
> floated a hectare of solar panels in one of its reservoirs; it hopes,
> eventually, to build a four-gigawatt solar plant at sea."
> Vertical farming and an $18 billion farm in China, 15 years to complete!
> "Singapore already has high-rise factories: towers occupied by dozens of
> manufacturing units, all sharing amenities like cargo elevators,
> electricity and truck ramps. Since 2012, the government has funded vertical
> farms, shelves of aluminum planters that grow spinach, lettuce and Chinese
> cabbage. Singapore grows only 7 percent of its food, having decided long
> ago that its land has more profitable uses. In the 1980s, it began
> dispatching its pig farms to outlying Indonesian islands like Batam, which
> still supplies Singapore with pork. The government has invested $380
> million in agricultural projects in Australia, and it is renting land in
> northeast China to build itself a farm that will measure double the area of
> the island of Singapore. The farm will take 15 years to complete and will
> cost $18 billion. Given enough ready money, thorny issues of territorial
> sovereignty swiftly dissolve."
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> Lawrence F. London, Jr.
> lfljvenaura@gmail.com
> https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared
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Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lfljvenaura@gmail.com
https://sites.google.com/site/avantgeared