The village without electricity

An eco-village that produces its own organic food, clean water, and clean energy without depending on the electricity grid is coming to the suburbs of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

According to Science Alert, the first high-tech eco-village project is expected to be born in the city of Almere, 20 minutes drive from Amsterdam, is the idea of ​​the California-based company Regen Villages, USA. Regen Villages wants to create residential areas that do not use electricity and aim for sustainable living with the ability to produce food, energy, manage waste locally and reuse water.

A corner of the electricity-free eco-village on the outskirts of Amsterdam.

By combining sustainable land management and farming with an independent technological infrastructure, Regen Villages efficiently generates surplus energy to feed the surrounding grid, while growing about half of the food residents consume.

“We’re looking at developing real estate by creating neighborhoods that use renewable energy, looking at farmland that can be used to produce more organic food, clean water, cleaner energy and less waste,” said James Ehrlich, president of Regen Villages.

The village aims to produce its own organic food through a vertical garden system.

According to Ehrlich, tons of organic food from vegetables, fruits, nuts, beans, fish, eggs, meat, chicken, dairy animals, can be grown continuously year-round and with high productivity when applying vertical gardening systems.

The eco-village project, designed by Danish company Effekt, includes 25 pilot houses and will increase to 100 when completed in 2017. The project will then be replicated in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Germany.

According to Khoahoc.tv