The Urban Aquaculture Center: Aquaponics Goes Big
While traditional aquaculture comes with both benefits and drawbacks, many folks believe it may play an increasingly important role in feeding a hungry world. And with urbanization continuing apace world-wide, anything that can bring food production closer to centers of consumption merits close attention. We’ve already written a little about urban aquaponics, an innovative merging of hydroponics and aquaculture, and now we’ve just via one of our local free papers about a proposed Urban Aquaculture Center (UAC) in Milwaukee. The UAC intends to combine a 150,000-sq ft indoor aquaculture/agriculture facility with educational facilities, sustainable farming exhibits, a restaurant and fish market.
The Urban Aquaculture Center’s website is, unfortunately, a bit of a mess, at least from this user's perspective, and it’s a little hard to extract information about the current state of the project. However, scanning the various blog entries there certainly seems to be a buzz of activity around this concept, and the City of Milwaukee has already thrown its weight behind the idea. (more)
via:treehugger
