Hydroponics

The legalization of marijuana in the United States is a very controversial topic. The legalization of cannabis would: boost revenue, allow wider access for medical use, increase personal freedoms, promote more effective criminal justice and law enforcement, and permit safety controls on the substance. Prohibition on cannabis costs taxpayers billions of dollars every year. Legalizing marijuana and establishing appropriate regulations for the use and distribution of marijuana, would allow for…

Riverview Gardens in Appleton, WI was an interesting place to volunteer for my Civic Engagement experience. I started volunteering at Riverview Gardens last winter after writing about the site for my UW Fox Valley course in Urban Geography. We had learned about “gentrification,” in Urban Geography, which is the process of neighborhood upscaling that results in displacing residents who can no longer afford to live there. Riverview Gardens is an example of gentrification in reverse. Riverview…

Introduction For $30 each week, Lufa Farms provides the consumer with a subscription to fresh, local, organic produce, delivered to a convenient location of the consumer’s choosing. This Montreal-based start-up, founded by Mohamed Hage, is breaking down the wall which blocks the consumer from purchasing locally grown produce year-round. This company embodies each discipline within management. Not unlike other companies, Lufa Farms faced challenges in the implementation of all of these…

Conserving and managing natural resources and wastes are national priorities. From unplugging your television, to riding a bike to work, there are many ways in which we can sustainably manage natural resources and wastes. Natural resources are what makes modern life possible for us, and it may seem impossible for some to cut back because of how much more convenient it may be. Conserving and maybe even, “going a little prehistoric” will come in handy once we are using less, and preserving more.…

Emission of Particulate Matter (PM10, PM2.5, and PM0.1) comprises a considerable fraction of urban air pollution (Laden et al. 2006, Shackleton et al, 2013). Long term exposure of airborne particulates matter is directly associated with post neonatal infant mortality (Laden et al. 2006), Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) (Tracey et al. 2006) and various disease conditions such as; cardiopulmonary, lung cancer (Pope III, 2002), atherosclerosis (Araujo, 2011) and asthma (Anderson et al., 2013).…

Plants require certain substances that are necessary for their survival. These requirements are carbon dioxide, water and mineral nutrients. Mineral nutrients are essential chemical element that are critical for plants to sustain life function and complete their life cycle (Uchida, 2000). These nutrients are classified into two groups micro a macro nutrients. Micronutrients are elements are used in very small amount these include boron, chlorine, cooper, iron, manganese and zinc. While…

Holla-Fresh Pty. Ltd. (HF), is located at Whites Road, Tantanoola, South Australia and is currently owned in a partnership by brothers, Ian and Mark Lines. The Lines brothers established the business in 1993 and began by creating their own markets. HF has since grown into an independent and flourishing private company with strong affiliations with supermarkets around Australia and has over 60 employees. HF’s ongoing success is evident through its expansions and consistent quality of culinary…

could benefit from it as well such as those in Medicine, Food Production, Manufacturing, Tourism, and Retail. In medicine, medical marijuana is now being harnessed as a tool or alternative to pharmaceuticals in treatment.The knowledge from indoor hydroponic marijuana cultivators can also prove useful to those in food production for their skills in developing plants with natural resistance to environmental conditions to help with agriculture. Medical and recreational cannabis is already…

The store operates on “shares of stock for as little as $25” that pay for remodeling of the abandoned building, first year operation, and for the ECSIA Hydroponics Greenhouse. With more and more local grocery stores disappearing, six federal agencies created an “$800,000 Obama administration initiative, ‘Local Foods, Local Places,’” and each community has a team of experts who “recognize local asset and opportunities…

An example of a sustainable design would be “shades that were plants growing behind glass, thin horizontal hydroponic planters” (McDonough & Braungart, 2013). This is what one of the science center lobby in Denver has, they are growing strawberries. The problem they ran into was that in the winter the daylight is only about 7 hours long. They needed a way to come…