Farms: Vertical ocean farming - the least deadliest catch | Bren Smith | TEDxBermuda
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Bren Smith's vertical ocean farm in Long Island Sound grows seaweed and shellfish and is designed to restore ecosystems, mitigate climate change, and create blue-green jobs for fishermen. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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Amazing, amazing talk.
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One of my favorite Ted Talks
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Bren:
Please Teach how to do this Maine.
Sincerely
Keith -
Ive been meaning to do this for over 30 years!You just give the sea life a surface to grow on!Youre producing the sea food not stealing it from mother ocean.
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Great but please don't put invasive gracilarria in Bermuda - it will take over and kill the reefs as it has devastated Hawaii.
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Cool, really interesting
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big praise from UK
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Yes!!! Great talk! What a wonderful personal enlightenment story! especially 8:46!
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If you think we need to develop a 'sustainable' (environmentally speaking) economy, before one that reaches full employment then you're heading down a dead end.
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Those who didin´t liked the video can you please explain why?
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I was going to say that we can already feed the world, the problem is a matter of logistics ~ specifically, safely transporting the food to the people, and the funding to make it possible. This might be a useful idea for when the planet hits 9 billion people, due sometime around 2100 ... watching this, I can say that the overfishing of our oceans has left us with a need to find sustainable alternatives ...
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Amazing!
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A terrific example of a low-impact, high-output, scalable, sustainable ocean farm and CSF. More please!
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That has Packard Foundation written all over it. That's the group that spent $65million over a few years to badmouth salmon aquaculture. It's also the group that funds the Monterey Bay Aquarium and their fish advisories based on their own set of criteria. And I'd love to see his gear actually stop storm surge...good luck with that.
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Thanks Bren, I loved your presentation and am so happy to be taking your message on the road for the next wave of ocean farmers!
-Cori Rose