Agriculture and Urbanism go hand and hand. This episode covers a brief history of Food in the U.S. as well speak to several interesting guests. First; Charlie Price of Aquaponics U.K. at sterling University explains how Aquaponics is a viable solution for feeding a rapidly expanding population. Also a collection of farmers that I interviewed at the Urban Farming World conference last fall, including the organizer Will Allen of Growing Power, Will is a MacArthur genius award recipient, and was named as one of the 100 most influential people by Time magazine for 2010. Also a farmer from Brooklyn New York, Kristin Schafenacker from Added Value urban farm, and our last guest will be a James Taylor Jr. a young Organic Farmer describes his Community Supported Agriculture.
Episode 2 of the American Dream Survival Guide looks at an overview of water and the built American Landscape. Special guests include Neil Grigg, professor and former head of the Civil Engineering Department at Colorado State University. He has written about 300 publications on civil infrastructure, including numerous books. Professor Grigg explains the current situation with government fiscal shortfalls in relation to water infrastructure as well as identifies pressing issues facing Americans and the water they use. Also featured, Luuk Rietveld, a Dutch urban water cycle specialist from the faculty of Civil Engineering at Technical University Delft in the Netherlands. Professor Rietveld discusses some of the Global water issues as well as their solutions.
Episode 1 is now available as a free download podcast on iTunes. This episode looks at a brief history of the American Landscape and the American Dream. Lars Lerup, former Dean of the college of Architecture at Rice University, comments on the suburban landscape and introduces his new book “1 Million Acres and No Zoning”. Peter Calthorpe, founding member of the Congress for New Urbanism and acclaimed urban planner and architect, explains how we got where we are today as well as where we are going and how his new book “Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change” addresses current issues.
