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TimberFish Sustainability Proposal

Summary

This proposal describes an ecological, economic, and educational sustainability program using the TimberFish Technology. It is multidisciplinary, hands on, and integrally related to the real world. The program offers many benefits to students by demonstrating the meaning of sustainability in local and entrepreneurial applications. It also will integrate the knowledge they obtain in the academic areas of the natural sciences (biology chemistry, physics), applied technology (engineering, computer science, fabrication, construction), business (economics, entrepreneurial start ups, marketing), mathematics, sociology, philosophy, and art.

The program offers significant advantages to the university. By offering an environmental sustainability program that is unique, practical, and scalable to global application it will attract students who are very concerned about the looming issue of Climate Change, and who don’t know what they can do about it. The public relations that can be obtained from this will also be attractive to donors to the university, and for potential corporate sponsors who are looking for ways to improve their environmental image.

The program is centered on student participation in the building and operation of TimberFish systems that can produce seafood from sustainably harvested forests and woodlots. This can incentivize reforestation and deforestation avoidance, which will help mitigate Climate Change.

The process comprises mixing non toxic sources of nutrients, such as food wastes, with wood chips that can be harvested from nearby woodlots or forests in ways that preserves their natural habitat and biodiversity. This combination is used as a substrate to grow microbes, which are fed to invertebrates, which are then fed to fish and shrimp. The resulting seafood is clean and locally produced. The only other outputs are high quality effluents, a high energy residual wood chip, and potting soil. The process is non-polluting, ecologically sustainable, and economically competitive in todays' market.

This program has an additional benefit in that it provides a template for the revival and continuation of the "Global Village" concept that Marshall McLuhan introduced in the 1960s. This could now include a series of local sustainable green circular economies which would integrate sociological, economic, and environmental factors into a sustainable future for humanity. It presents a potential path to resolve the issues of global Climate Change and environmental pollution.

To see a copy of the full draft proposal see;

• Eco Proposal