George Chan: Traumfarmen (100 Notes-100 Thoughts / 100 Notizen-100 Gedanken: dOCUMENTA 13) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3775729003 ISBN 13: 9783775729000

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011

Synopsis

In a lifetime of work with farmers around the world, George Chan, the father of integrated farming, has been searching for a formula that would transform “waste into wealth”. He brought together their ancient knowledge with new technologies and elaborated a theory based on circularity and sustainable recycling where farming can exist with zero input and zero emissions―the Integrated Farming and Waste Management System. For the so-called Dream Farms, a sustainable cycle was developed using material and energy in different stages, such as raising chickens and using their waste as extra nutrients for the plants, effecting an increase of crop and gain. Chan has been a pioneer of our modern take on non-pollution and bio-farming, but unfortunately his revolutionary model comes out of site-specific research and exchanges and thus remains for the most part unknown. This notebook brings together key ideas of this committed thinker in the form of drawings, diagrams, notes, and photographs, which are introduced by Fernando García-Dory, who has carefully compiled these papers in close exchange with Chan.George Chan (*1923) is an environmental engineer.Fernando García-Dory (*1978) is an artist and agro-ecologist living between Madrid, Berlin, and the northern Spanish mountains.

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In a lifetime of work with farmers around the world, George Chan, the father of integrated farming, has developed an integrated theory for transforming "waste into wealth." The Integrated Farming and Waste Management System is based on a system of sustainable recycling wherein farming can exist with zero input and zero emissions. For the so-called Dream Farms, a sustainable cycle was developed using material and energy in different stages, such as raising chickens and using their waste as extra nutrients for the plants, effecting an increase in crop overall. Chan has been a pioneer in bio-farming, but his revolutionary model has been built on site-specific research and until now has remained largely unknown. This notebook brings together the key ideas of this committed thinker in drawings, diagrams, notes and photographs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3775729003
• ISBN 13: 9783775729000
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 36