Growing Power on Milwaukee Renaissance

Don Richards just agreed to participate in a task force to try to couple the Growing Power Fish Farm and Urban Farming Institute at New Pabst City with a project to make Milwaukee the center for the emerging community food movement across North America, or at least in the Great Lakes Region, including Canada, and, especially, Toronto.

We must move fast to inspire the Zilber Group of our seriousness, competency, partnering potential, and capacity to generate all kinds of capital: money from selling things and winning grants; connections with other possible tenants who will want to participate in the myriad spin-offs; culture and knowledge “capital” by virtue of research and development partnerships of the kind 4 MSOE professors are exploring in the area of sustainable energy sources, e.g. windmills, solar, anaerobic, etc. to warm the water; and so forth.

We need people to help us figure out:

  • the costs of transforming 2 tanks of 40,000 gallons that once held beer into an “eco system” for raising 40,000 fish per annum.

  • the cost of re-configuring at least 2 floors of Building #3 from a beer storage into a fish farm facility

  • the cost of removing some of the tanks from floors 3–7 to make way for a other tenants, including possibly the national or Great Lakes Headquarters for the emerging community food systems movement.

We need help reaching out to:

  • leaders of the various public, private, co-op, and community “constallations” of the emerging community food system movement across the USA and Canada and, why not, Mexico!

  • investors in public and private organizations who see the key role of urban farming in the sustainable development movements.

  • political leaders, culture makers, and educators ready to partner in this grand drama.

  • people able and willing to learn how to become “wiki webmasters” for the community food system movement, to vastly augment our self-organizing possibilities.

See http://MilwaukeeRenaissance.com pages on urban farming grow as people learn to harness the power of the internet to the growing power with the people community food system movement.

What say?

Why not?

Wind at our backs in 2006,

Godsil
Growing Power Fish Farm at New Pabst City Organizer

Last edited by g.   Page last modified on January 11, 2006

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