{"id":1618,"date":"2016-08-25T20:13:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T20:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2016-08-25T20:13:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T20:13:20","slug":"solar-powered-ring-garden-marries-desalination-and-agriculture-for-drought-stricken-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/?p=1618","title":{"rendered":"Solar-powered Ring Garden marries desalination and agriculture for drought-stricken California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inhabitat<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/solar-powered-ring-garden-marries-desalination-and-agriculture-for-drought-stricken-california\/\" target=\"_blank\">Solar-powered Ring Garden marries desalination and agriculture for drought-stricken California<\/a><br \/>\nAugust 25, 2016<br \/>\nby Tafline Laylin<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With roughly 80 percent of California\u2019s already-scarce water supply going to agriculture, it\u2019s crucial for the state to embrace new technologies that shrink the amount of water required to grow food. Alexandru Predonu has designed an elegant solution that uses solar energy to power a rotating desalination plant and farm that not only produces clean drinking water for the city of Santa Monica, but also food crops \u2013 including algae. A finalist of this year\u2019s Land Art Generator Initiative competition, a site-specific biennial design competition that has inspired world-renowned designs like <em>The Pipe<\/em> and <em>Energy Duck<\/em>, <em>Ring Garden<\/em> is capable of churning out 16 million gallons of clean water, 40,000 pounds of aeroponic crops, and 11,000 pounds of spirulina biomass for livestock feed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/solar-powered-ring-garden-marries-desalination-and-agriculture-for-drought-stricken-california\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inhabitat Solar-powered Ring Garden marries desalination and agriculture for drought-stricken California August 25, 2016 by Tafline Laylin &#8220;With roughly 80 percent of California\u2019s already-scarce water supply going to agriculture, it\u2019s crucial for the state to embrace new technologies that shrink the amount of water required to grow food. Alexandru Predonu has designed an elegant solution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[75,21,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-75","category-inhabitat","category-press-and-articles-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}