The Suburbs - they will be retrofitted (eventually)
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Here's a video on the subject - you can hear the chickens squawking in the background

David Holmgren on the Endurance of Suburbia
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=iTYe8WloF1U

Holmgren is the "co-originator of the permaculture concept"

Some points he makes

+ Suburbia is no more dense than denser agricultural areas,
+ But suburbanites consume far more
+ The suburbs have: water, hard surfaces to capture land
+ Houses can be retrofitted to have solar panels, and some wind

PUBLIC POLICY and central planning may be far too slow - people may adopt on their own.
(Flexibility in planning may be forced on local officials)


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ENVISION:

+ Larger households, with boarders being taken in
+ Tasks (growing food etc) to be shared
+ Garages can be turned into workshops

David Holmgren Retrofitting The Suburbs - Part1
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=2cjhQWdbqE4

David Holmgren Retrofitting The Suburbs - Part2


David Holmgren Retrofitting The Suburbs - Part3
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=RC3kS0keJEY

David Holmgren Retrofitting The Suburbs - Part4


David Holmgren Retrofitting The Suburbs - Part5
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=HwMxCdugvYQ

You mean like tis?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3282065/Ch...ce-on-roof.html

My roof is to steep and not right for Rice but right for Solar Panels. The Garden will be for the growing number of veggies and the glass house will go into more production in 2009.

I Love it !


Peng Qiugen decided to plant rice on the roof of his four storey house in Shaoxing in east China's Zhejiang province as a novel way to farm in the overcrowded city.

Mr Qiugen planted the rice back in May on his 120-square-metre roof paddy and his crop is now ready to be harvested.

The rice paddy is expected to yield 120kg of rice grains.

Shaoxing is a city of more than four million people and its wine, Shaoxing wine, is one of the most famous varieties of traditional Chinese wine fermented from rice.