Food coming from greenhouses installed in the door of their houses, electricity coming from renewable energies, the water collected from near environment and without almost garbage, since there is an almost complete circular economy, it sounds fantastic and, nevertheless, it seems possible: near the Dutch city of Almere, different groups are working to make this dream come true. Here will emerge the so-called ReGen village, a regenerative village that is supposed to work independently of the world economy.
The inventor of the ReGen villages, the American James Ehrlich, together with the Danish architects EFFEKT has combined numerous cycles into a complex, self-sufficient system. On the whole, there are four areas: food, water and energy supply and, of course, waste management.
Description of project by EFFEKT
ReGen Villages is a new visionary model for the development of off-grid, integrated and resilient eco-villages that can power and feed self-reliant families around the world.
ReGen stands for regenerative, where the outputs of one system are the inputs of another. The concept has a holistic approach and combines a variety of innovative technologies, such as energy positive homes, renewable energy, energy storage, door-step high-yield organic food production, vertical farming aquaponics/aeroponics, water management and waste-to-resource systems.
With the integration of such technologies, ReGen Villages holds a potential in changing some of the challenges of a growing population, increasing urbanization, scarcity of resources, the growing global food crisis as well as reducing the global CO2 emission and reducing the burdens on municipal and national governments in dynamically changing planetary and economic times.
ReGen Villages is all about applied technology. Already existing technologies are simply being applied into an integrated community design, providing clean energy, water and food right off the doorstep. ReGen Villages adds not only environmental and financial value, but also social value, by creating a framework for empowering families and developing a sense of community, where people become part of a shared local eco-system: reconnecting people with nature and consumption with production.
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ReGen Villages es un nuevo modelo visionario para el desarrollo de ecoaldeas integradas y resistentes que pueden ser autosuficientes en energia y alimentar familias en todo el mundo.
ReGen significa regenerativo, donde las salidas de un sistema son las entradas de otro. El concepto tiene un enfoque holístico y combina una variedad de tecnologías innovadoras, como hogares con energía positiva, energía renovable, almacenamiento de energía, producción de alimentos orgánicos de alto rendimiento en la puerta, acuaponía / aeroponía agrícola vertical, gestión del agua y sistemas de conversión de residuos en recursos.
Con la integración de tales tecnologías, ReGen Villages tiene el potencial de cambiar algunos de los desafíos de una población en crecimiento, aumento de la urbanización, escasez de recursos, la creciente crisis alimentaria mundial, así como la reducción de las emisiones mundiales de CO2 y la reducción de las cargas municipales y gobiernos nacionales en tiempos planetarios y económicos dinámicamente cambiantes.
ReGen Villages tiene que ver con la tecnología aplicada. Las tecnologías ya existentes simplemente se están aplicando en un diseño comunitario integrado, proporcionando energía limpia, agua y alimentos desde la puerta. ReGen Villages agrega no solo valor ambiental y financiero, sino también valor social, creando un marco para fortalecer a las familias y desarrollar un sentido de comunidad, donde las personas se vuelven parte de un ecosistema local compartido: reconectando a las personas con la naturaleza y el consumo con la producción.
