A garden in my apartment | Britta Riley

譯者: zhang haohan 審譯者: Sean Chuang

我和你們

I, like many of you,

很多人一樣是

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

20億城市人口中的一個

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

肯定有一段時間我不在乎你們中的任何一人

but there are days when I palpably feel

但是又有時我可以很清楚的感覺到

how much I rely on other people

我有多麼的依賴他人

for pretty much everything in my life.

幾乎是我生活中的每件事

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

有時 我甚至對這種現狀感到可怕

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

但是我今天想與你們分享的

就是這種社會基本結構（社會人）之間的

is how that same interdependence

is actually an extremely powerful social infrastructure

互相依賴所具有的強大力量

假如我們之間有開放資源的合作

that we can actually harness

to help heal some of our deepest civic issues,

大家是可以行動起來解決

if we apply open-source collaboration.

一些社會最根本的問題的

幾年前

A couple of years ago,

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

我讀了紐約時報上邁克爾波輪寫的一篇文章

在其中他論述到了 我們假如能夠自己為自己種點食物

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

這將是對環境

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

十分有好處的事情

當時我在讀那篇文章時

Now at the time that I was reading this,

正是寒冬

it was the middle of the winter

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

在我紐約的公寓中

不可能有地方來種菜

in my New York City apartment.

So I was basically just willing to settle

很自然的我勉強同意他的

for just reading the next Wired magazine

然後就去在連線(雜誌)

and finding out how the experts were going to figure out

上找找看專家們

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

是如何為我們解決這些問題的

但是這種想法就是邁克爾波輪

But that was actually exactly the point

that Michael Pollan was making in this article --

在文章中明確寫道的

it's precisely when we hand over

當我們把本來屬於

the responsibility for all these things to specialists

自己的責任全部都交到了專家手裡

我們其實就在為我們的

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

食品系統製造麻煩

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

那之後 我很碰巧的從我自己的工作中知道了

about how NASA has been using hydroponics

NASA使用水栽培

to explore growing food in space.

在宇宙中種植植物的方法

並且你可以通過在植物根

And that you can actually get optimal nutritional yield

周圍包裹高質量的液態土壤

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

來獲得最好的產量

對蔬菜植物而言

Now to a vegetable plant,

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

我的公寓和

外太空對他們來說沒什麼區別

但是起碼我可以提供自然光

But I can offer some natural light

and year-round climate control.

和全年的氣候控制

快轉到兩年後

Fast-forward two years later:

我們現在有了 窗邊農場

we now have window farms,

which are vertical, hydroponic platforms

一種垂直式室內水栽培植物

的平臺

for food-growing indoors.

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

工作原理是在它的底部有一個泵

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

用於定期向上方輸送液態養料溶液

然後順著懸空在粘土小球中的

which then trickles down through plants' root systems

that are suspended in clay pellets --

植物根慢慢滴落

所以不需要泥土的

so there's no dirt involved.

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

在每一個窗戶的小氣候生態中

陽光和氣溫是會變化的

所以窗邊農場

so a window farm requires a farmer,

是需要一個農工的

然後她來決定

and she must decide

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

在窗邊農場中放怎樣的種子

和是不是用有機肥料去培養

and whether she is going to feed her food organically.

現在的窗邊農場應該

Back at the time,

a window farm was no more than a technically complex idea

算的上是一個技術比較複雜的想法

that was going to require a lot of testing.

是需要很多的測試的

And I really wanted it to be an open project,

我真的很希望這可以成為一個大眾項目

因為在美國近年來

because hydroponics

is one of the fastest growing areas of patenting

水養殖是幾個專利

增長最快的領域之一

in the United States right now,

and could possibly become another area like Monsanto,

很可能成為另一個

像孟山都一樣

where we have a lot of corporate intellectual property

在食物方面形成很多

in the way of people's food.

企業知識產權

So I decided that, instead of creating a product,

所以我並不像做出一個產品

我想的是把

what I was going to do

was open this up to a whole bunch of codevelopers.

這個東西與所有的發展著一同共享

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

這是我們創造的第一個系統 相當不錯

We were actually able to grow about a salad a week

我們能每星期在典型的紐約公寓的窗戶上

in a typical New York City apartment window.

種出一盤沙拉

我們可以種小番茄

And we were able to grow cherry tomatoes

和黃瓜等各種菜

and cucumbers, all kinds of stuff.

但是這第一個系統

But the first few systems

were these leaky, loud power-guzzlers

是會漏水 而且很吵費電

那樣的東西瑪莎斯圖是肯定不喜歡的

that Martha Stewart would definitely never have approved.

(笑)

(Laughter)

So to bring on more codevelopers,

爲了吸引更多的製造者

我們建立了一個網站

what we did was we created a social media site

在上面發佈我們設計

on which we published the designs,

我們解釋他們是如何工作的

we explained how they worked,

甚至還把

and we even went so far

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

這些系統的各種漏洞都寫在了上面

And then we invited people all over the world

並且邀請全世界的人

與我們一同實驗來創造這個系統

to build them and experiment with us.

So actually now on this website,

現在這個網站大概有

we have 18,000 people.

18000人

And we have window farms all over the world.

我們現在全世界都有了

窗邊農場

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

我們現在做的

是NASA和那些大公司

would call R&D, or research and development.

稱為R＆D的或叫做研究與發展

但是我們把它叫做R＆DIY

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

or "research and develop it yourself."

或叫做研究與自己做

(Laughter)

比如

So, for example, Jackson came along

一路走來的傑克森他建議

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

我們可以用氣泵代替水泵

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

這需要一系列的改造來實現

只要成功了

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

我們就能減少一半左右的碳排放

居住在芝加哥的托尼和許多其他的窗邊農工

Tony in Chicago has been taking on growing experiments,

一樣在進行生產實驗

like lots of other window farmers,

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

然後他通過簡單改變養料

for nine months of the year in low-light conditions

成功達到了在一年中有九個月

by simply changing out the organic nutrients.

都能成功產出草莓

And window farmers in Finland have been customizing their window farms

接下來是在芬蘭的窗邊農工

通過加上led燈

for the dark days of the Finnish winters

已經成功的讓他們的窗邊農場

適應了芬蘭冬天的黑暗

by outfitting them with LED grow lights

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

同時他們也把這作為了公開資源計劃的一部份

So window farms have been evolving

通過像軟體一樣

不斷的版本更新

through a rapid versioning process similar to software.

窗邊農場在不斷的改進

And with every open source project,

公開資源的好處就在於

the real benefit is the interplay

互相的影響

between the specific concerns of people customizing their systems

由當地人爲了

適應當地環境做出的

for their own particular concerns,

特殊的想法

and the universal concerns.

與一般想法見的影響

So my core team and I

通過這樣的好處我的核心小組

are able to concentrate on the improvements

就能認識到

怎樣的改進才能對大家都有好處

that really benefit everyone.

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

同時也能為新參加的人員提供他們的需要

So for do-it-yourselfers,

對那些diy者

we provide free, very well-tested instructions

我們提供免費優質的指導

so that anyone, anywhere around the world,

因此對於任何人在任何地方

can build one of these systems for free.

他們都能免費得建一個窗邊農場

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

但是這些系統的專利也是會有的

that's held by the community.

是由整個社區的人們所共有的

And to fund the project,

出於為項目注資的目的

we partner to create products

我們的合作者做了一些產品

that we then sell to schools and to individuals

賣給了那些沒有時間自己做的

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

學校和個人

Now within our community, a certain culture has appeared.

現在在我們的社區內

一個很好的風氣已經形成了

In our culture, it is better to be a tester

在我們文化裡 我們認為成為一個

實踐者去支持他人的想法

who supports someone else's idea

than it is to be just the idea guy.

比僅僅成為一個倫理家要好的多

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

我們從這個項目中

得到是從我們自己工作中的自信

as well as an experience of actually contributing

和真真為環境做點事情的

to the environmental movement

體驗

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

而非僅僅是換換燈泡而已

其實我感覺艾琳

But I think that Eleen expresses best

對我們從中得到了什麽說的最好

what we really get out of this,

which is the actual joy of collaboration.

那就是合作的純粹的快樂

So she expresses here what it's like

她說這種快樂就像是

to see someone halfway across the world

在世界旅途的半路中

having taken your idea, built upon it

碰到了一個撿起了你的想法的人 擴充了你的想法的人

然後感謝你的想法的人

and then acknowledging you for contributing.

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

假如我們真的想看到

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

我們作為環境學家和food people所說的

巨大的消費行為改變

maybe we just need to ditch the term "consumer"

可能其實我們僅僅只需要挖掘一下消費者的潛能

and get behind the people who are doing stuff.

找到那些想做點是的人就好了

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

公開資源項目也要有它們的春天了

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

並且我們現在看到的R＆diy

has moved beyond just window farms and LEDs

也已經從窗邊農場加上led

into solar panels and aquaponic systems.

向太陽能板和養耕共生轉變

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

我們是在前代們的發明基礎

上建立起來的

And we're looking ahead at generations

現在我們也在尋找下一代

who really need us to retool our lives now.

那些需要我們的幫助重組他們生活的人

So we ask that you join us

我要求你加入到我們

in rediscovering the value of citizens united,

與我們一起重新定義

公民這個小單位的價值

and to declare that we are all still pioneers.

並與我們一同宣佈

我們還是開創者

(Applause)

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