Almost all the food that we consume is the product of domestication, cultivation, and husbandry. The last great exception to this is seafood, much of which is still harvested directly from oceans, lakes and streams just like our hunter gatherer ancestors did. Well, actually not very much like they did at all. We now catch ocean and freshwater species on a scale and intensity that threatens not only of the existence of the species we catch, but also the ecosystems of which they are part. One potential solution is to make our use of marine resources more like terrestrial food production, i.e. farming. Of course, whether farming can help solve solutions or create new ones depends on the details of design and implementation.
Check out this blog post by Liz Camuti of the American Society of Landscape Architects that describes the work of Greenwave:
http://dirt.asla.org/2015/11/03/ocean-farm-wins-2015-buckminster-fuller-challenge/
They recently won the Buckminster Fuller Institute Challenge. Greenwave’s winning project was the “world’s first
multi-species 3-D ocean farm". Do you think that this setup is a problem solver?
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