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Items Tagged With Colin Tudge
An Ecology of Solutions
Written By: Kay Emmo
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2008-03-30 15:01:04
Vector: George Dvorsky
Snagged and mashed verbage:
Link: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/rad
I forwarded George's email to former C-Realm guest Eric Boyd who had the following to say on the topic of vertical farming:
The discussion of mushroom picking robots relates directly to my conversation with Colin Tudge in episode 77: AI (Agricultural Intelligence), and the discussion of vertical farming resonates with a discussion thread in the C-Realm Forum that turned acrimonious and pointlessly adversarial. This is the same thread for which I solicited some outside opinions and received some whoppers from Dmitry Orlov and Albert Bates.
I'm repeating myself here, but playing the role I've adopted for myself involves a lot of repetition. I agree with Colin Tudge in that I'm open to technological enhancements that will enable independent farmers to produce more and better food with less drudgery to feed their local communities. I am in no way interested in mega-scale, tech-centric agribusiness schemes intended to maintain the behemoth of highly centralized and largely de-peopled, corporate industrial farming. I want to see a widespread and rapid shift to a more localized and human scale system of food production. Or using Thomas Homer-Dixon's vocabulary, I want to see a reversal in the trend of trading the resiliency of decentralized agriculture for the seeming efficiency gained by scaling up, centralizing, and removing humans from the practice of food cultivation.
Finally, as many thoughtful people have pointed out, the problems that face us call out not for monolithic universal prescriptions but for a panoply of adaptive responses, i.e. an ecology of solutions (now there's a good title for an episode of the podcast).
Written By: Kay Emmo
Section:
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2008-03-30 15:01:04
Vector: George Dvorsky
Snagged and mashed verbage:
On Friday March 28th Anders Sandberg debated the future of farming on BBC Radio 4 with Robin Maynard, of the Soil Association and Professor Les Firbank from the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research.
Will the future of farming be glass skyscrapers full of plants and chickens, hi-tech genetically modified crops, or a return to traditional methods and wisdom? Charlotte Smith examines some of the suggested ways we might feed the world in years to come.
Link: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/rad
I forwarded George's email to former C-Realm guest Eric Boyd who had the following to say on the topic of vertical farming:
Thanks, I gave it a listen. I personally think that "Vertical Farming" is a ridiculous idea, mostly because of the power requirements. I mean, you've got to provide artificial light for the plants on most of the floors, and that's going to be *extremely* intensive use of electricity.
You basically need to provide 1kW/m^2, which amounts to ~4MW per acre. If you've got any size farm, you're talking about entire power plants. Not to mention the capital cost of building skyscrapers. It's beyond silly. But certainly there is a role for farming in the city - just look at the Cuba model.
I do think the discussion on GMOs was correct - Europe is becoming an island of expensive food, and it's going to hold them back if they can't bring themselves to accept it.
My take:
The discussion of mushroom picking robots relates directly to my conversation with Colin Tudge in episode 77: AI (Agricultural Intelligence), and the discussion of vertical farming resonates with a discussion thread in the C-Realm Forum that turned acrimonious and pointlessly adversarial. This is the same thread for which I solicited some outside opinions and received some whoppers from Dmitry Orlov and Albert Bates.I'm repeating myself here, but playing the role I've adopted for myself involves a lot of repetition. I agree with Colin Tudge in that I'm open to technological enhancements that will enable independent farmers to produce more and better food with less drudgery to feed their local communities. I am in no way interested in mega-scale, tech-centric agribusiness schemes intended to maintain the behemoth of highly centralized and largely de-peopled, corporate industrial farming. I want to see a widespread and rapid shift to a more localized and human scale system of food production. Or using Thomas Homer-Dixon's vocabulary, I want to see a reversal in the trend of trading the resiliency of decentralized agriculture for the seeming efficiency gained by scaling up, centralizing, and removing humans from the practice of food cultivation.
Finally, as many thoughtful people have pointed out, the problems that face us call out not for monolithic universal prescriptions but for a panoply of adaptive responses, i.e. an ecology of solutions (now there's a good title for an episode of the podcast).
Episode 76: Feeding People
Written By: Administrator
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2008-02-06 15:44:00
Written By: Administrator
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2008-02-06 15:44:00
Guests: Gyrus founder of the Dreamflesh Journal, and Colin Tudge, author of Feeding People is Easy.
The excerpt I read on the topics of Nutritionism and the Problem of the Fixed Stomach comes from In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan.
At the end of the program, I read part of my correspondence with Digital Crusader Eric Boyd which was sparked by Stuart Staniford's essay, The Fallacy of Reversibility: Why Peak Oil Actually Helps Industrial Agriculture. Another former guest of the C-Realm Podcast, Sharon Astyk has written an excellent response to Staniford.
Episode 77: AI (Agricultural Intelligence)
Written By: Administrator
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2008-02-13 14:28:00
And here's a snippet from Colin Tudge's bio:
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Written By: Administrator
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2008-02-13 14:28:00
In this installment, KMO speaks with Colin Tudge and David Blume about the possible applications of high technology, genetic engineering, robotics and artificial intelligence in farming.
Both of the guests on this week's program have long and impressive bios which I did not even attempt to do justice when I introduced them. Here is a tasty tidbit from David Blume's bio:
KQED, San Francisco’s Public Broadcasting System station, asked Dave to put his alcohol workshop on television, and together they spent two years making the ten-part series, Alcohol as Fuel. To accompany the series, Dave wrote the comprehensive manual on the subject, the original Alcohol Can Be A Gas! Shortly after the first show aired, in 1983, oil companies threatened to pull out their funding if the series was continued. KQED halted the distribution of the series and book (see this current book’s Introduction for the whole story).
And here's a snippet from Colin Tudge's bio:
CT nurses the conviction that human beings are basically both sensible and nice and that if only democracy could be made to work—creating societies based on people's real desires and values, as opposed to those assumed by economists and governments—then the world would be a much better place. After so many decades of muddle-headedness and abuse, it may well be too late to keep the world in a tolerable state. Yet this still may be achievable, and is surely worth a try.
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