Mississaugi First Nation has recently installed a Green Iglu Greenhouse on their reserve. The greenhouse will provide fresh food for the community year-round. For more information on Green Iglu systems, see the link.
Green Iglu is strengthening food security across Canada.
Permaculture provides a big-picture perspective, using nature’s patterns and rules as a basis for designing your home, backyard garden, business, community commons, and municipal streets and parkways. It’s a systematic, regenerative approach that tackles big problems – and solves them – with sweeping effects.
Ekodome is a Brooklyn, NY-based start-up company designing and manufacturing self-assembly Geodesic Dome Kits to help home and landowners worldwide build multipurpose spaces easily and affordably. The company was founded as Excolere LLC (dba Ekodome) by Sinan Halic, a Turkish descent maker artist living in New York who spent nearly a decade working on geodesic dome structures. His vision was to create modular living spaces by combining function, quality, design, and value – always with sustainability in mind. That is how Ekodome was designed in the first place. Today, we develop and manufacture geodesic dome building systems that aim to maximize lifetime user experience. Our mission is to contribute worldwide efforts in creating better habitats for the future based on sustainability principles.
NOPRI is currently developing economical systems for producing food through most or all of the year. In the summer of 2016, NOPRI built its first prototype all-season greenhouse. We’ve been iteratively improving since then.
Heat storage and thermal mass applications in passive solar winter greenhouse system.
link to siteGreenhouse plastic installation, greenhouse construction, shading and lighting, repair and maintenance.
link to siteWinter temperatures in Alliance, Nebraska can drop to -20°F (the record low is -40°F/C), but retired mailman Russ Finch grows oranges in his backyard greenhouse without paying for heat. Instead, he draws on the earth’s stable temperature (around 52 degrees in his region) to grow warm weather produce- citrus, figs, pomegranates – in the snow.
link to siteAN Preamble
Debenjiged gii’saan anishinaaben akiing giibi dgwon gaadeni mnidoo waadiziwin.
Creator placed the Anishinaabe on the earth along with the gift of spirituality.
Shkode, nibi, aki, noodin, giibi dgosdoonan wii naagdowendmang maanpii Shkagmigaang.
Here on Mother Earth, there were gifts given to the Anishinaabe to look after, fire, water, earth and wind.
Debenjiged gii miinaan gechtwaa wendaagog Anishinaaben waa naagdoonjin ninda niizhwaaswi kino maadwinan.
The Creator also gave the Anishinaabe seven sacred gifts to guide them. They are:
Zaagidwin, Debwewin, Mnaadendmowin, Nbwaakaawin, Dbaadendiziwin, Gwekwaadziwin miinwa Aakedhewin.
Love, Truth, Respect, Wisdom, Humility, Honesty and Bravery.
Debenjiged kiimiingona dedbinwe wi naagdowendiwin.
Creator gave us sovereignty to govern ourselves.
Ka mnaadendanaa gaabi zhiwebag miinwaa nango megwaa ezhwebag, miinwa geyaabi waa ni zhiwebag.
We respect and honour the past, present and future.
(Preamble to the Anishinaabe Chi-Naaknigewin – as adopted by the Grand Council in June 2011)
Anishinabek Agriculture