permaculture

[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

Now this is unbelievable..................

The Supertree Grove in Singapore's Gardens by the Bay, which sit on 250
acres of reclaimed land. The Supertrees are vertical gardens that contain
over 160,000 types of plants. Credit Sim Chi Yin/VII, for The New York Times

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On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:01 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
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> 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>
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>> 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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