the island school - an amazing story indeed
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This is a compilation of the amazing things that are going on at the Island School, on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas. Hope you enjoy it!TRANSCRIPT
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The Future of Food ProductionAnd what does Tilapia fish poop have to do with it?
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The Future of Food ProductionIsland School, Island of Eleuthera, Bahamas
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Island School – Amazing Story
• Ex Navy Seal Starts School – H.S. semester abroad program• He forms Cape Eleuthera Institute – Mini Woods Hole• Reaches out to local poor and starts middle school• Self sufficient, off the grid, sustainable life support solutions
o Electricity – Solar and Windo Water – harvesting the raino Bio Diesel from waste cooking oil from cruise shipso State of the art non-polluting septic solutiono Trash – they recycle everything. Nothing wasted.o They even make their own furnitureo Zero Waste Goal for Future
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Island School – Amazing Story
• Sustainable food productiono Aquaponics - vegetables grown in water (hint-fish poop)o Aquaculture - off shore carnivorous fish farming 4,000 – 5,000 at a time!!!!
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Island School – Amazing Story
• Extensive shark and bonefish researchHow do you get a shark to go to sleep for you?
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Island School – Amazing Story
• Simple…just roll him over on his back but don’t try this at home…..
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Island School – Amazing Story
• Sometimes they end up in the Mediterranean
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Sustainable EnergyPower of the Sun and Wind – What it’s like to be off the grid
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Water – Harvesting the Rain
Can you drink it ???
Of course….
With multi filtering sand & U.V. filters
Amazing that you don’t see this anywhere in the U.S.
Water conservation Navy showers Waterless urinals If it’s yellow, let it mellow….
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Unique Solution for Septic WasteEvery time you flush – a flower blooms
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Trash – Where Does It All Go ?Save Those Scraps
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Trash – Where Does It All Go ?Here piggy, piggy piggy
What the pigs won’t eat…
The worms will…
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How do you recycle plastic?First of all…don’t buy it in the first place
If you do, don’t dispose of it in a landfill
If buying it is unavoidable,
Island School wants to turn it into lumber….like TREX.
Now all they need is a $50k grant to buy the extruding maching…. SOME DAY SOON THEY HOPE
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Biodiesel – Love Boat to School VanStart with a cruise ship
Then take their spent frying oil off their hands
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Biodiesel – Love Boat to School VanRecipe…
A little used frying oil Add methanol and sodium hydroxide
Like magic you get diesel fuel
OK…so it’s not that simple…
But exhaust does smell like french fries
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Aquaponics – The poop on growing lettuce
Start with a few hundred tilapia fish…
Let ‘em stew in a tank for a while….
Well…let’s just say the water contains a lot of nutrients….
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Aquaponics – The poop on growing lettuce
Pump the water to the farm platforms… using solar power of course.
Add some lettuce seedlings…
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Aquaponics – The poop on growing lettuce
“Let tus eat “…
Enough lettuce and herbs to feed an Army….
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Aquaculture – How to grow a big fishStart with a mommy and a daddy fish (otherwise known as brood stock)
And let ‘em spawn a whole bunch of eggs - 4,000 – 5,000 at a time
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Aquaculture – How to grow a big fishTransfer the little fishies into bigger tanks and watch them grow….
Do you think they like each other?
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Aquaculture – How to grow a big fish
Let them get a little bigger…..
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Aquaculture – How to grow a big fishTransfer them into a huge offshore underwater cage….. then wait 8 months…..
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Aquaculture – How to grow a big fishLower the cage into 100 feet of water, give or take a few feet…..
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Aquaculture – How to grow a big fishFeed the fish every day and tend to the cage from time to time…..
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Aquaculture – How to grow a big fishView of submerged cage…..
Top of cage at 30 feet
Bottom of cage at 90 feet
Hey, it takes a pretty big cage to house 5,000 three-foot fish…..
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Aquaculture – How to grow a big fishEight months later…..
Now That’s A Really Big Fish !!!!
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Island School – Amazing Story Indeed
Maybe some day their research will help feed the world