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Urban Aquaponics conference is now in Brisbane from February 25 & 26, 2010
Urban Aquaponics conference is now in
Brisbane from February 25 & 26, 2010
September 11, 2009: The world’s first urban aquaponics conference will now be held in Brisbane on February 25 and 26, 2010, by the Aquaponics Network Australia (ANA).
Aquaponics is combining fish farming with vegetable and fruit farming in an intensive system. It is ideally suited to new technologies combining into urban agriculture that goes beyond soil farming.
Urban aquaponics is now practicing aquaponics on rooftops or inside buildings in “protected” food production using solar energy and recycling of nutrients from clean urban organic matter.
The Urban Aquaponics Conference next February is expected to attract around 250 attendees, mostly from Australia and 14 neighboring countries.
The conference venue is the Brisbane Technology Park conference centre on Miles Platting Road in Eight Mile Plains, about 20 kilometers from Brisbane airport. The conference will have four main streams over two days. Cost to ANA members is A$250 a day, and non-members $350 a day (plus $100 more if the extra day is attended). Content and display streams are:
• Integrations of aquaponics systems with green walls, green roofs, solar and other sustainable energy sources, rain-water harvesting, storage and use, recycling of “grey water”, and recycling of clean organic matter for fish feed via vemiculture/insect culture.
• Aquaponics teaching units in high schools – to significantly improve the standard of science teaching, plus the number of young people able to know and manage hobby hydroponics at home. This is expected to better equip homes for responses to climate change – in which urban organic agriculture without waste, clean organic matter recycling, water harvesting and recycling, and energy conservation, will be key objectives. Many of the 2,500 high schools of the Western Pacific are expected to develop an interest in aquaponics for significant improvement in science teaching.
• Aquaponics equipment, feeding and management advances suited to Australia and other hot-dry countries with temperate, sub-tropical or tropical climates. A special aspect will be the various hobby systems of the world that can produce less-expensive, high-protein fish and crustaceans, plus high-value fresh vegetables or fruits, for home tables at modest cost.
• Aquaponics in LED-lit (Light Emitting Diodes) operations deep inside buildings. The technology operates 24 hours a day, uses solar or other sustainable energy, and extends the aquaponics technology to the kind of “protected agriculture” likely to be required if and when climate change weather turns violent.
The Urban Aquaponics Conference next February is a Western Pacific lead-up to the “Cities Alive Australia” World Green Infrastructure Congress in Brisbane, Queensland from October 17 to 20 in 2012, organized by Green Roofs Australia Inc. GRA Inc has chosen four major themes for its World Green Infrastructure (“Cities Alive Australia”) congress. They are:
• Climate change action planning.
• Non-municipal water supply management.
• Much-enhanced solar power advancement.
• Food from the roof (including aquaponics).
Aquaponics and vermiculture technologies are expected to become a strong feature of green roofs and green walls development in Australia through research by the Central Queensland University and by other Australian universities and companies. “Food from the roof” is about to start on Australian and North American rooftops as a technology soundly based on hydroponics, aquaponics, aquaculture, aeroponics, vermiculture and insect culture, with added benefitrs from improved management of non-municipal water, and enhanced solar power.
These themes are considered to be important for the world’s wider development of green roofs and walls that become major climate change responses for all nations. The October 2012 “Cities Alive” congress in Queensland, Australia by WGRIN and its Australian member, Green Roofs Australia Inc, is planned for around 2,500 attendees from Australia and overseas.
Aquaponics first began in China thousands of years ago, when rice paddies also grew fish while rice was produced -- and in the Aztec empire of Central America, when “chinampa” integrated fish, fruit and vegetable systems were used. They are still visible in Mexico City.
Aquaponics is the term used in North America for the last 30 years to describe the combining of intensive aquaculture (fish, crustaceans and molluscs) with intensive growing of food plants (fresh vegetables and fruit). It closely mimics “Mother Nature”, and produces “organic” fresh food via water, without soil.
Micro-organisms in the water break down the fish, crustacean or mollusc wastes into plant foods. In newly-developing systems of aquaponics, “organic” fish feeds grown from recycling of clean urban organic matter provide “organic” fresh fish, fresh fruit and fresh vegetable as close as possible to where food is consumed – eliminating big costs and greatly reducing pollution.
Aquaponics has developed into a “best practice” food productions system in the last 30 years, after six universities in the United States helped further develop aquaponics for urban backyards – as an individual or company response to the “cold war” threat of atomic warfare.
The technology has now been taken up widely in the United States, Canada and Australia – and many hobbyists and innovating companies have foreseen it as a ideal response to both climate change and to rising transport costs of fresh farm food production, transport and storage.
The Aquaponics Network Australia (ANA) was set up in 2002 by retired agribusiness journalist Geoff Wilson, as an information organisation for educators and hobbyists interested in managing or owning small-scale aquaponics units for improved science teaching or for home food production.
Contact : Geoff Wilson, Director, Aquaponics Network Australia
A networking, information and education division of Qponics Pty Ltd (ACN 106 580 536)
32 David Road, Holland Park 4121, Queensland, Australia.
Phone +61 7 3411 4524 Mobile: 0412 622 779.
Email: wilson.geoff@optusnet.com.au
Brisbane from February 25 & 26, 2010
September 11, 2009: The world’s first urban aquaponics conference will now be held in Brisbane on February 25 and 26, 2010, by the Aquaponics Network Australia (ANA).
Aquaponics is combining fish farming with vegetable and fruit farming in an intensive system. It is ideally suited to new technologies combining into urban agriculture that goes beyond soil farming.
Urban aquaponics is now practicing aquaponics on rooftops or inside buildings in “protected” food production using solar energy and recycling of nutrients from clean urban organic matter.
The Urban Aquaponics Conference next February is expected to attract around 250 attendees, mostly from Australia and 14 neighboring countries.
The conference venue is the Brisbane Technology Park conference centre on Miles Platting Road in Eight Mile Plains, about 20 kilometers from Brisbane airport. The conference will have four main streams over two days. Cost to ANA members is A$250 a day, and non-members $350 a day (plus $100 more if the extra day is attended). Content and display streams are:
• Integrations of aquaponics systems with green walls, green roofs, solar and other sustainable energy sources, rain-water harvesting, storage and use, recycling of “grey water”, and recycling of clean organic matter for fish feed via vemiculture/insect culture.
• Aquaponics teaching units in high schools – to significantly improve the standard of science teaching, plus the number of young people able to know and manage hobby hydroponics at home. This is expected to better equip homes for responses to climate change – in which urban organic agriculture without waste, clean organic matter recycling, water harvesting and recycling, and energy conservation, will be key objectives. Many of the 2,500 high schools of the Western Pacific are expected to develop an interest in aquaponics for significant improvement in science teaching.
• Aquaponics equipment, feeding and management advances suited to Australia and other hot-dry countries with temperate, sub-tropical or tropical climates. A special aspect will be the various hobby systems of the world that can produce less-expensive, high-protein fish and crustaceans, plus high-value fresh vegetables or fruits, for home tables at modest cost.
• Aquaponics in LED-lit (Light Emitting Diodes) operations deep inside buildings. The technology operates 24 hours a day, uses solar or other sustainable energy, and extends the aquaponics technology to the kind of “protected agriculture” likely to be required if and when climate change weather turns violent.
The Urban Aquaponics Conference next February is a Western Pacific lead-up to the “Cities Alive Australia” World Green Infrastructure Congress in Brisbane, Queensland from October 17 to 20 in 2012, organized by Green Roofs Australia Inc. GRA Inc has chosen four major themes for its World Green Infrastructure (“Cities Alive Australia”) congress. They are:
• Climate change action planning.
• Non-municipal water supply management.
• Much-enhanced solar power advancement.
• Food from the roof (including aquaponics).
Aquaponics and vermiculture technologies are expected to become a strong feature of green roofs and green walls development in Australia through research by the Central Queensland University and by other Australian universities and companies. “Food from the roof” is about to start on Australian and North American rooftops as a technology soundly based on hydroponics, aquaponics, aquaculture, aeroponics, vermiculture and insect culture, with added benefitrs from improved management of non-municipal water, and enhanced solar power.
These themes are considered to be important for the world’s wider development of green roofs and walls that become major climate change responses for all nations. The October 2012 “Cities Alive” congress in Queensland, Australia by WGRIN and its Australian member, Green Roofs Australia Inc, is planned for around 2,500 attendees from Australia and overseas.
Aquaponics first began in China thousands of years ago, when rice paddies also grew fish while rice was produced -- and in the Aztec empire of Central America, when “chinampa” integrated fish, fruit and vegetable systems were used. They are still visible in Mexico City.
Aquaponics is the term used in North America for the last 30 years to describe the combining of intensive aquaculture (fish, crustaceans and molluscs) with intensive growing of food plants (fresh vegetables and fruit). It closely mimics “Mother Nature”, and produces “organic” fresh food via water, without soil.
Micro-organisms in the water break down the fish, crustacean or mollusc wastes into plant foods. In newly-developing systems of aquaponics, “organic” fish feeds grown from recycling of clean urban organic matter provide “organic” fresh fish, fresh fruit and fresh vegetable as close as possible to where food is consumed – eliminating big costs and greatly reducing pollution.
Aquaponics has developed into a “best practice” food productions system in the last 30 years, after six universities in the United States helped further develop aquaponics for urban backyards – as an individual or company response to the “cold war” threat of atomic warfare.
The technology has now been taken up widely in the United States, Canada and Australia – and many hobbyists and innovating companies have foreseen it as a ideal response to both climate change and to rising transport costs of fresh farm food production, transport and storage.
The Aquaponics Network Australia (ANA) was set up in 2002 by retired agribusiness journalist Geoff Wilson, as an information organisation for educators and hobbyists interested in managing or owning small-scale aquaponics units for improved science teaching or for home food production.
Contact : Geoff Wilson, Director, Aquaponics Network Australia
A networking, information and education division of Qponics Pty Ltd (ACN 106 580 536)
32 David Road, Holland Park 4121, Queensland, Australia.
Phone +61 7 3411 4524 Mobile: 0412 622 779.
Email: wilson.geoff@optusnet.com.au
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