A garden in my apartment | Britta Riley

Translator: Mads Fløe Reviewer: Jacob Buch Petersen

Jeg er, som mange af jer,

I, like many of you,

en af de to milliarder mennesker på jorden,

am one of the two billion people on Earth who live in cities.

som bor i en by.

And there are days -- I don't know about the rest of you --

Og der er dage - Jeg ved ikke med resten af jer -

but there are days when I palpably feel

men der er dage, hvor jeg helt håndgribeligt føler,

how much I rely on other people

hvor meget jeg er afhængig af andre mennesker

for pretty much everything in my life.

mere eller mindre, på alle områder i mit liv.

And some days, that can even be a little scary.

Og nogle dage kan det endda være lidt skræmmende.

But what I'm here to talk to you about today

Men hvad jeg er kommet for at tale om i dag er,

hvordan den samme indbyrdes afhængighed,

is how that same interdependence

is actually an extremely powerful social infrastructure

faktisk er en ekstremt stærk social infrastruktur,

som vi fasktisk kan lære at styre,

that we can actually harness

to help heal some of our deepest civic issues,

og således heale nogle af vores dybeste borgerlige problemstillinger,

if we apply open-source collaboration.

hvis vi gør brug af samarbejde igennem Open Source.

For et par år siden

A couple of years ago,

I read an article by New York Times writer Michael Pollan,

læste jeg en artikel af journalist Michael Pollan, i New York Times,

hvori han diskuterede, at dyrke bare lidt af sin egen mad,

in which he argued that growing even some of our own food

er en af de bedste ting,

is one of the best things that we can do for the environment.

vi kan gøre for miljøet.

Da jeg læste dette

Now at the time that I was reading this,

var det midt om vinteren,

it was the middle of the winter

and I definitely did not have room for a lot of dirt

og jeg havde bestemt ikke plads til en masse jord

i min lejlighed i centrum af New York

in my New York City apartment.

So I was basically just willing to settle

Så jeg var egentlig parat til bare,

for just reading the next Wired magazine

at læse den næste udgave af magasinet Wired,

and finding out how the experts were going to figure out

og finde ud af, hvordan eksperterne ville løse opgaven med,

how to solve all these problems for us in the future.

at finde løsninger på disse problemer i fremtiden.

Men det var netop pointen,

But that was actually exactly the point

that Michael Pollan was making in this article --

som Michael Pollan diskuterede i denne artikel --

it's precisely when we hand over

At det er nemlig præcist når vi overlader

the responsibility for all these things to specialists

ansvaret for alle disse ting til specialisterne,

at vi bliver årsagen til den slags virvar,

that we cause the kind of messes that we see with the food system.

som vi kan observere i mad-systemet.

So, I happen to know a little bit from my own work

Jeg kender tilfældigvis til en smule fra mit eget arbejde om,

about how NASA has been using hydroponics

hvordan NASA har brugt hydroponiske bede til

to explore growing food in space.

at udforske, i dyrkning af afgrøder i rummet.

Og man kan faktisk få et optimalt ernæringsmæssigt udbytte

And that you can actually get optimal nutritional yield

ved at anvende en form for flydende jord, af høj kvalitet,

by running a kind of high-quality liquid soil over plants' root systems.

hen over planternes rodsystemer.

For en plante

Now to a vegetable plant,

my apartment has got to be about as foreign as outer space.

er min lejlighed nok

nogenlunde lige så fremmed, som det ydre rum.

Men jeg kan tilbyde noget naturligt lys,

But I can offer some natural light

and year-round climate control.

samt klimakontrol året rundt.

Vi spoler to år frem i tiden,

Fast-forward two years later:

og nu har vi vinduesfarme,

we now have window farms,

which are vertical, hydroponic platforms

som er vertikale hydroponiske bede til,

at dyrke spiselige afgrøder indendørs.

for food-growing indoors.

And the way it works is that there's a pump at the bottom,

Og måden det fungerer på er, at der sidder en pumpe i bunden,

which periodically sends this liquid nutrient solution up to the top,

som periodisk sender en flydende næringsstof-opløsning op til toppen,

hvor fra det siver ned igennem planternes rodsystemer,

which then trickles down through plants' root systems

that are suspended in clay pellets --

som hænger fast i små stykker ler,

så der bliver altså ikke brugt jord.

so there's no dirt involved.

Now light and temperature vary with each window's microclimate,

Lys og temperatur varierer

for hver enkelt vindues mikroklima,

så en vinduesfarm

so a window farm requires a farmer,

kræver en landmand.

og hun må bestemme sig for

and she must decide

what kind of crops she is going to put in her window farm,

hvilke afgrøder, hun vil dyrke i sin vinduesfarm,

og om hun vil dyrke sine afgrøder økologisk.

and whether she is going to feed her food organically.

Til at begynde med, var en vinduesfarm

Back at the time,

a window farm was no more than a technically complex idea

en teknisk meget kompleks idé,

that was going to require a lot of testing.

som først skulle igennem en lang testfase.

And I really wanted it to be an open project,

Og jeg ville virkelig gerne have, at det skulle være et Open Source-projekt,

fordi hydroponiske bede,

because hydroponics

is one of the fastest growing areas of patenting

er et af de områder, hvor der ansøges flest patenter

i USA lige nu,

in the United States right now,

and could possibly become another area like Monsanto,

og det kan evt. ende,

som endnu et område som Monsanto,

where we have a lot of corporate intellectual property

hvor erhverslives intellektuelle ejendomsret,

in the way of people's food.

står i vejen for menneskers mad.

So I decided that, instead of creating a product,

Så jeg besluttede, at i stedet for, at skabe et produkt,

ville jeg i stedet

what I was going to do

was open this up to a whole bunch of codevelopers.

starte dette her op, med en hel masse medudviklere.

The first few systems that we created, they kind of worked.

De første par systemer vi lavede virkede på sin vis.

We were actually able to grow about a salad a week

Vi kunne rent faktisk dyrke omkring en salat om ugen

in a typical New York City apartment window.

i en vindueskarm i en almindelg lejlighed i centrum af New York.

Vi var i stand til at dyrke cherrytomater og

And we were able to grow cherry tomatoes

agurker, og alt muligt andet.

and cucumbers, all kinds of stuff.

Men de første par systemer

But the first few systems

were these leaky, loud power-guzzlers

var de her lækkende, larmende, strømslugere,

som Martha Stewart i hvert fald aldrig ville have sagt god for.

that Martha Stewart would definitely never have approved.

(Latter)

(Laughter)

So to bring on more codevelopers,

Så for at bringe flere medudviklere ind i det,

gjorde vi det, at vi lavede en social medie hjemmeside,

what we did was we created a social media site

hvor vi offentliggjorde disse designs,

on which we published the designs,

vi forklarede hvordan de fungerede,

we explained how they worked,

og vi gik endda så langt,

and we even went so far

as to point out everything that was wrong with these systems.

at vi beskrev alle problemerne med disse systemer.

And then we invited people all over the world

Og så inviterede vi mennesker fra hele verden til,

at bygge dem og ekserimentere sammen med os.

to build them and experiment with us.

So actually now on this website,

Så faktisk har vi på denne hjemmeside

we have 18,000 people.

18.000 mennesker.

And we have window farms all over the world.

Og vi har vinduesfarme

over hele verden.

What we're doing is what NASA or a large corporation

Det vi gør,

er hvad NASA eller store virksomheder

would call R&D, or research and development.

ville kalde for R&D, eller forskning og udvikling.

Men det vi kalder det er R&D-G-D-S,

But what we call it is R&D-I-Y,

or "research and develop it yourself."

eller forskning og udvikle det selv.

(Laughter)

Så for eksempel

So, for example, Jackson came along

Jackson kom og foreslog,

and suggested that we use air pumps instead of water pumps.

at vi brugte luftpumper i stedet for vandpumper.

It took building a whole bunch of systems to get it right,

Der skulle bygges en hel del systemer, før det rigtig lykkedes,

men så snart det gjorde, så var vi i stand til,

but once we did, we were able to cut our carbon footprint nearly in half.

at reducere halvdelen af vores udledning af drivhusgasser

Tony i Chicago har haft en tilgang til eksperimenterne,

Tony in Chicago has been taking on growing experiments,

meget lig mange andre vinduesfarmere,

like lots of other window farmers,

and he's been able to get his strawberries to fruit

og han har fået sine jordbær til at give frugt

for nine months of the year in low-light conditions

ni måneder om året, under lavt belyste betingelser,

by simply changing out the organic nutrients.

simpelthen ved, at ændre de organiske næringsstoffer.

And window farmers in Finland have been customizing their window farms

Og vinduesfarmere i Finland

har tilpasset deres vinduesfarme,

for the dark days of the Finnish winters

så de passer til de mørke finske vintre,

ved at udstyre dem med LED vækst lys,

by outfitting them with LED grow lights

that they're now making open source and part of the project.

som de nu er ved at lave til Open Source og en del af projektet.

So window farms have been evolving

Så vinduesfarme har udviklet sig

igennem en hurtig versioneringsprocess,

through a rapid versioning process similar to software.

lignende den der anvendes til software.

And with every open source project,

Og som med alle andre Open Source-projekter,

the real benefit is the interplay

er det rigtige udbytte, det samspil der er,

between the specific concerns of people customizing their systems

blandt specifikke problemstillinger,

blandt mennesker, der tilpasser deres systemer

for their own particular concerns,

i forhold til deres egne problemstillinger,

and the universal concerns.

samt de mere universelle problemstillinger.

So my core team and I

Så mit kerne team og jeg

are able to concentrate on the improvements

var i stand til, at koncentrere os om forbedringer,

som virkelig kommer alle til gode.

that really benefit everyone.

And we're able to look out for the needs of newcomers.

Og vi er i stand ti, at tage hånd om nyankomnes behov.

So for do-it-yourselfers,

Så for gør-det-selv folket

we provide free, very well-tested instructions

tilbyder vi gratis og gennemtestede instruktioner,

so that anyone, anywhere around the world,

således at alle, hvor som helst i verden,

can build one of these systems for free.

kan bygge et af disse systemer gratis.

And there's a patent pending on these systems as well

Og der er patentanmeldelse på disse systemer også,

that's held by the community.

som ejes af fællesskabet.

And to fund the project,

Og til at finansiere projektet,

we partner to create products

går vi sammen om at lave produkter,

that we then sell to schools and to individuals

som vi sælger til skoler og privatpersoner,

who don't have time to build their own systems.

der ikke har tid til, at bygge deres egne systemer.

Now within our community, a certain culture has appeared.

I vores fællesskab

er der opstået en bestemt kultur.

In our culture, it is better to be a tester

I denne kultur er det mere anset, at være en tester,

som bakker op om en andens idé,

who supports someone else's idea

than it is to be just the idea guy.

end det er bare at være idémanden.

What we get out of this project is support for our own work,

Det som vi får ud af dette projekt er,

at vi får støtte til vores eget arbejde,

as well as an experience of actually contributing

samt en oplevelse af rent faktisk at bidrage

to the environmental movement

til miljøbevægelsen

in a way other than just screwing in new light bulbs.

på en anderledes måde, end bare at skifte til el-sparepærer.

Men jeg tror Eileen sagde det bedst,

But I think that Eleen expresses best

at det vi virkelig får ud af det her er,

what we really get out of this,

which is the actual joy of collaboration.

er glæden ved at bidrage.

So she expresses here what it's like

Så hun udtrykker her, hvordan det er,

to see someone halfway across the world

at se nogen på den anden side af jorden,

having taken your idea, built upon it

der har brugt din idé, bygget ud fra den,

og anerkendt dig for dit bidrag.

and then acknowledging you for contributing.

If we really want to see the kind of wide consumer behavior change

Hvis vi virkelig ønsker, at se den brede forbrugerkultur ændre sig,

that we're all talking about as environmentalists and food people,

som vi alle snakker om,

som miljøforkæmpere og madelskere,

maybe we just need to ditch the term "consumer"

så er vi måske nød til, helt at skrotte begrebet forbruger,

and get behind the people who are doing stuff.

og i stedet bakke op omkring mennesker, som gør en forskel.

Open source projects tend to have a momentum of their own.

Open Source-projekter synes at leve deres eget liv.

And what we're seeing is that R&D-I-Y

Og det vi kan se er, at "forskning og udvikling gør-det-selv",

has moved beyond just window farms and LEDs

har bevæget sig ud over bare vinduesfarme og LED-lys,

into solar panels and aquaponic systems.

til solpaneler og hydroponiske bede.

And we're building upon innovations of generations who went before us.

Og vi bygger oven på nyskabelser,

fra generationer, der kom før os.

And we're looking ahead at generations

Og vi kigger frem mod generationer,

who really need us to retool our lives now.

som virkelig har brug for, at vi nyskaber måden vi lever på i dag.

So we ask that you join us

Så vi ønsker at du vil være med til

in rediscovering the value of citizens united,

at genopdage værdien

af forenede borgere,

and to declare that we are all still pioneers.

og til at erklære,

at vi alle stadig er pionerer.

(Applause)

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