A garden in my apartment | Britta Riley

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Ja sam, kao mnogi od vas,

I, like many of you,

jedna od dvije milijarde ljudi na Zemlji

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

koji žive u gradovima.

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

I postoje dani -- ne znam kako je to kod vas --

but there are days when I palpably feel

no postoje dani kad opipljivo osjećam

how much I rely on other people

koliko se oslanjam na druge ljude

for pretty much everything in my life.

za gotovo sve u svom životu.

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

A u nekim danima to može biti i pomalo zastrašujuće.

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

No ono o čemu ću govoriti danas

je kako je upravo ta međuovisnost

is how that same interdependence

is actually an extremely powerful social infrastructure

zapravo izuzetno jaka društvena infrastruktura

koju bismo zapravo mogli iskoristiti

that we can actually harness

to help heal some of our deepest civic issues,

da pomognemo riješiti neke od naših najdubljih građanskih problema,

if we apply open-source collaboration.

ako bismo primijenili otvorenu suradnju.

Prije nekoliko godina

A couple of years ago,

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

čitala sam članak Michaela Pollana u New York Timesu

u kojem je tvrdio da je uzgoj čak i malo vlastite hrane

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

jedna od najboljih stvari

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

koju možemo učiniti za okoliš.

U trenutku kada sam to čitala

Now at the time that I was reading this,

bila je sredina zime

it was the middle of the winter

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

i ja definitivno nisam imala sobu za mnogo zemlje

u svom newyorškom stanu.

in my New York City apartment.

So I was basically just willing to settle

Tako da sam se upravo bila spremna zadovoljiti

for just reading the next Wired magazine

čitanjem novog broja časopisa Wired

and finding out how the experts were going to figure out

da vidim kako će stručnjaci za nas otkriti

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

rješenje svih tih problema u budućnosti.

No to je bilo upravo ono o čemu je

But that was actually exactly the point

that Michael Pollan was making in this article --

Michael Pollan pisao u tom članku --

it's precisely when we hand over

da upravo to kada prepuštamo

the responsibility for all these things to specialists

odgovornost za sve te stvari specijalistima

da uzrokujemo ovakvu zbrku

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

kakvu vidimo u prehrambenom sustavu.

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

Tako, ja slučajno znam ponešto iz vlastitog rada

about how NASA has been using hydroponics

o tome kako NASA koristi hidropone

to explore growing food in space.

za istraživanje rasta hrane u svemiru.

I zapravo možete dobiti optimalan prehrambeni prinos

And that you can actually get optimal nutritional yield

tako da pokrenete visoko kvalitetnu vrstu otopine

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

preko korijenskog sistema biljke.

Sada za povrtnu biljku

Now to a vegetable plant,

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

moj bi stan mogao biti

jednako stran kao i svemir.

Ali ja mogu ponuditi štogod prirodnog svjetla

But I can offer some natural light

and year-round climate control.

i kontrolu klime tijekom godine.

Brzo naprijed, dvije godine poslije:

Fast-forward two years later:

imamo prozorska uzgajališta:

we now have window farms,

which are vertical, hydroponic platforms

to su vertikalni hidroponi sistemi

za uzgoj hrane u zatvorenom prostoru.

for food-growing indoors.

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

a način na koji radi je da postoji pumpa na dnu

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

koja periodički šalje neke hranjive otopine do vrha

koja tada kaplje dolje kroz sustav korijenja biljke

which then trickles down through plants' root systems

that are suspended in clay pellets --

koje je postavljeno u glinenim kuglicama --

tako da zemlja nije uključena.

so there's no dirt involved.

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

Svjetlo i temperatura variraju

prema mikroklimi svakog prozora

tako da prozorsko uzgajalište

so a window farm requires a farmer,

zahtjeva uzgajivača

koji mora odlučiti

and she must decide

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

kakve će kulture imati u svojem prozorskom uzgajalištu

i hoće li svoju hranu organski hraniti.

and whether she is going to feed her food organically.

U to vrijeme prozorsko uzgajalište nije bilo više nego

Back at the time,

a window farm was no more than a technically complex idea

tehnički kompleksna ideja

that was going to require a lot of testing.

koja će zahtijevati mnogo testiranja.

And I really wanted it to be an open project,

A ja sam stvarno željela da to bude otvoren projekt

jer hidroponi su

because hydroponics

is one of the fastest growing areas of patenting

sada jedno od najbrže rastućih područja za patentiranje

u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama

in the United States right now,

and could possibly become another area like Monsanto,

i mogli bi postati

još jedno područje kao korporacija Monsanto,

where we have a lot of corporate intellectual property

gdje imamo mnogo korporacijskog intelektualnog vlasništva

in the way of people's food.

koje stoji na putu ljudskoj hrani.

So I decided that, instead of creating a product,

I tako sam odlučila da umjesto da stvaram produkt,

otvoriti taj sistem

what I was going to do

was open this up to a whole bunch of codevelopers.

velikoj grupi kooperanata.

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

Nekoliko prvih sistema koje smo stvorili nekako su funkcionirali.

We were actually able to grow about a salad a week

Mogli smo čak uzgojiti jednu glavicu salate za oko tjedan dana

in a typical New York City apartment window.

na prozoru tipičnog newyorškog stana.

Mogli smo uzgojiti i minirajčice,

And we were able to grow cherry tomatoes

i krastavce, i još mnogošta.

and cucumbers, all kinds of stuff.

Ali nekoliko prvih sistema

But the first few systems

were these leaky, loud power-guzzlers

bili su propuštajući bučni žderači energije

koje Martha Stewart nikad ne bi odobrila.

that Martha Stewart would definitely never have approved.

(Smijeh)

(Laughter)

So to bring on more codevelopers,

Da bismo pridobili što više suradnika,

stvorili smo društvenu internetsku mrežu

what we did was we created a social media site

na kojoj smo objavili nacrt,

on which we published the designs,

objasnili kako funkcionira,

we explained how they worked,

i išli smo čak tako daleko

and we even went so far

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

da smo naglasili što je u tim sistemima neispravno.

And then we invited people all over the world

I tada smo pozvali ljude iz cijelog svijeta

da ih grade i da eksperimentiraju s nama.

to build them and experiment with us.

So actually now on this website,

I sada doista na toj internetskoj stranici imamo

we have 18,000 people.

18.000 ljudi.

And we have window farms all over the world.

I imamo prozorska uzgajališta

po cijelom svijetu.

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

Ono što činimo

NASA ili neki drugi veliki koncern bi nazvao

would call R&D, or research and development.

I&R ili istraživanje i razvoj.

Ali mi ga nazivamo I&R-uradi-sam

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

or "research and develop it yourself."

ili istražuj i razvijaj ga sam.

(Laughter)

Na primjer,

So, for example, Jackson came along

Jackson je došao i predložio

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

da koristimo zračne pumpe umjesto vodenih.

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

Bilo je potrebno sastaviti mnogo sistema da bismo dobili jedan ispravan,

ali kad smo to ostvarili, mogli smo

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

smanjiti emisiju ugljika na polovicu.

Tony u Chicagu provodio je eksperimente rasta,

Tony in Chicago has been taking on growing experiments,

kao i mnogi drugi uzgajivači,

like lots of other window farmers,

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

i uspio je uzgojiti plodove jagoda

for nine months of the year in low-light conditions

devet mjeseci godišnje u uvjetima slabog osvjetljenja

by simply changing out the organic nutrients.

tako da je jednostavno promijenio organske nutrijente.

And window farmers in Finland have been customizing their window farms

A uzgajivači u Finskoj

prilagođavali su svoja prozorska uzgajališta

for the dark days of the Finnish winters

mračnim danima finske zime

tako da su ih opremili s LED žaruljama,

by outfitting them with LED grow lights

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

tako da su sada dio otvorene suradnje i dio projekta.

So window farms have been evolving

Tako su se prozorska uzgajališta razvijala

kroz rapidan proces različitih izvedbi

through a rapid versioning process similar to software.

slično kao kod softwarea.

And with every open source project,

I sa svakim projektom otvorene suradnje

the real benefit is the interplay

stvarna korist je interakcija

between the specific concerns of people customizing their systems

između specifičnih potreba

ljudi koji prilagođavaju svoje sisteme

for their own particular concerns,

vlastitim individualnim potrebama

and the universal concerns.

i univerzalnih potreba.

So my core team and I

Dakle moj uži tim i ja

are able to concentrate on the improvements

možemo se koncentrirati na poboljšanja

koja doista doprinose svima.

that really benefit everyone.

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

I u stanju smo paziti na potrebe pridošlica.

So for do-it-yourselfers,

Stoga za one koji će sistem raditi u kućnoj radinosti

we provide free, very well-tested instructions

osiguravamo besplatna, vrlo dobro testirana uputstva

so that anyone, anywhere around the world,

tako da bilo tko, bilo gdje na svijetu

can build one of these systems for free.

može ovaj sistem izraditi besplatno.

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

A tu je i zaštićeni patent na tim sustavima

that's held by the community.

koji je u posjedu zajednice.

And to fund the project,

Da bismo financirali projekt,

we partner to create products

ulazimo u partnerstva kako bismo kreirali produkte

that we then sell to schools and to individuals

koje potom prodajemo školama i pojedincima,

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

koji nemaju vremena za gradnju vlastitih sistema.

Now within our community, a certain culture has appeared.

U našoj zajednici

sada je nastala jedna određena kultura.

In our culture, it is better to be a tester

U našoj je kulturi bolje biti ispitivač

koji podržava ideju drugoga,

who supports someone else's idea

than it is to be just the idea guy.

nego biti samo onaj koji ima ideju.

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

Što smo dobili iz ovog projekta je

podrška za vlastiti rad

as well as an experience of actually contributing

kao i iskustvo stvarnog doprinosa

to the environmental movement

pokretu za očuvanje okoliša

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

koji je drugačiji od toga da samo stavimo nove žarulje.

No mislim da Eileen izražava najbolje

But I think that Eleen expresses best

što doista dobivamo iz ovoga,

what we really get out of this,

which is the actual joy of collaboration.

a to je zapravo radost suradnje.

So she expresses here what it's like

Pa tako ona ovdje izražava kako je to

to see someone halfway across the world

kad vidiš nekoga tko je s druge strane svijeta

having taken your idea, built upon it

uzeo tvoju ideju, nadogradio je

i tada ti priznao tvoj doprinos.

and then acknowledging you for contributing.

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

Ako zaista želimo da se promijeni priroda konzumerskog ponašanja

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

o kojoj svi mi govorimo

kao ekolozi i uživatelji hrane,

maybe we just need to ditch the term "consumer"

možda samo moramo odbaciti pojam konzument

and get behind the people who are doing stuff.

i pomoći ljudima koji štogod poduzimaju.

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

Projekti otvorene suradnje teže svojem trenutku.

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

I ono što opažamo je da se I&R-uradi-sam

has moved beyond just window farms and LEDs

razvio izvan jednostavnih prozorskih uzgajališta i LED žarulja

into solar panels and aquaponic systems.

u sisteme sa solarnim kolektorima i akvaponije.

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

Mi nadograđujemo inovacije

prijašnjih generacija.

And we're looking ahead at generations

I pripremamo se za generacije

who really need us to retool our lives now.

koje nas doista trebaju da sada iznova opremimo naše živote.

So we ask that you join us

Pa vas pozivamo da nam se pridružite

in rediscovering the value of citizens united,

u ponovnom otkrivanju vrijednosti

ujedinjenog građanstva

and to declare that we are all still pioneers.

i da objavimo

da smo u ovome svi mi još uvijek pioniri.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)