Is anyone else planning to attend? I think the dates are 24-26 of Feb, 2010.
Is anyone else planning to attend? I think the dates are 24-26 of Feb, 2010.
Please post details if people knew about it i am shore there would be some that would like to go
If its free pick it up
Grow food fish and food plants in one “organic” system with no wastes
Urban Aquaponics conference
in Brisbane from
February 24 to 26, 2010
Friday, July 3, 2009: The world’s first urban aquaponics conference will be held in Brisbane from February 24 to 26, 2010, by the Aquaponics Network Australia (ANA).
Aquaponics is combining fish farming with vegetable and fruit farming. Urban aquaponics is practicing aquaponics on rooftops or inside buildings in “protected” food production using solar energy and recycling of clean urban organic matter..
The conference venue is the Brisbane Technology Park conference centre in Eight Mile Plains, about 20 kilometers from Brisbane airport. The conference will have four main streams as separate, single-day events costing ANA members A$250 each, and non-members $350 each. They are:
• Aquaponics teaching units in high schools – to significantly improve the standard of science teaching, plus the number of young people able to know and manage hobby hydroponics at home. This is expected to better equip homes for responses to climate change – in which urban organic agriculture without waste, clean organic matter recycling, water harvesting and recycling, and energy conservation, will be key objectives. Many of the 2,500 high schools of the Western Pacific are expected to develop an interest in aquaponics for significant improved in science teaching.
• Aquaponics equipment, feeding and management advances suited to Australia and other hot-dry countries with temperate, sub-tropical or tropical climates. A special aspect will be the various hobby systems of the world that can produce high-protein fish and crustaceans, plus high-value fresh vegetables or fruits, for home tables at modest cost.
• Integrations of aquaponics systems with green walls, green roofs, solar and other sustainable energy sources, rain-water harvesting, storage and use, recycling of “grey water”, and recycling of clean organic matter for fish feed via vemiculture/insect culture.
• Aquaponics in LED-lit (Light Emitting Diodes) operations deep inside buildings. The technology operates 24 hours a day, uses solar or other sustainable energy, and extends the aquaponics technology to the kind of “protected agriculture” likely to be required if and when climate change weather turns violent.
The Aquaponics conference is a Western Pacific lead-up to the World Green Infrastructure Congress in Queensland from October 17 to 21 in 2012. The organizer, Green Roofs Australia Inc. has chosen four major themes for its World Green Infrastructure (“Cities Alive”) congress. They are:
• Climate Change Action Planning.
• Water management.
• Solar power advancement.
• Food from the roof (including aquaponics).
Aquaponics and vermiculture technologies are expected to become a strong feature of green roofs and green walls development in Australia through PhD research by the Central Queensland University and in R&D by other Australian universities and companies.
“Food from the roof” is about to start on Australian and North American rooftops as a technology soundly based on hydroponics, aquaponics, aquaculture, aeroponics, vermiculture and insect culture..
These themes are considered to be important for the world’s wider development of green roofs and walls that become major climate change responses for all nations.
From October 15 to 30, 2009 will be a study tour for professionals and news focused on the first “Cities Alive” congress in Toronto, Canada. It is expected to be a major event for its organizer, the World Green Infrastructure Congress (WGRIN) and its north American member, the Green Roofs for Healthy Cities organization of Canada and the United States.
The October 2012 “Cities Alive” congress in Queensland, Australia by WGRIN and its Australian member, Green Roofs Australia Inc, is planned for around 2,000 attendees from Australia and overseas.
The Aquaponics Conference in Brisbane in February 2010 is expected to attract around 250 attendees, mostly from Australia and neighboring countries.
Aquaponics pictures are available from Geoff Wilson – email: wilson.geoff@optusnet.com.au
Background:
Aquaponics first started in China thousands of years ago, when rice paddies also grew fish while rice was produced -- and in the Aztec empire of central America when “chinampa” integrated fish, fruit and vegetable systems were used.
Aquaponics is the term currently used to describe the combining of intensive aquaculture (fish, crustaceans and molluscs) with intensive growing of food plants (fresh vegetables and fruit).
Micro-organisms in the water break down the fish, crustacean or mollusc wastes into plant foods. In newly-developing systems of aquaponics, “organic” fish feeds grown from recycling of clean urban organic matter are proposed to provide “organic” fresh fish, fresh fruit and fresh vegetable as close as possible to where food is consumed – eliminating big costs and greatly reducing pollution.
Aquaponics has developed into a “best practice” food productions system in the last 30 years, after six universities in the United States helped further develop aquaponics for urban backyards – as an individual or company response to the “cold war” threat of atomic warfare.
The technology has now been taken up widely in the United States, Canada and Australia – and many hobbyists and innovating companies have foreseen it as a ideal response to both climate change and to rising costs of fresh farm food production, transport and storage.
The Aquaponics Network Australia (ANA) was set up in the early 2000s by retired agribusiness journalist Geoff Wilson, as an information organisation for educators and hobbyists interested in managing or owning small-scale aquaponics units for teaching or for home food production.
The network is a source of sound practical, technical and economic information about small-scale aquaponics suited to research, teaching and growing food in and around homes.
ANA accepts as members:
(a) Science teachers in the Western Pacific region.
(b) Anyone with a home food interest in learning more about the aquaponics technology.
(c) Individuals or companies supplying members with equipment or consumables.
(d) Professional advisors in aquaponics.
(e) Intending investors in commercial aquaponics.
The Aquaponics Network Australia will organise conferences and half-day lectures for financial members, and will soon have a new website for dissemination of news and information via fortnightly online newsletters and online monthly special reports.
JOIN AQUAPONICS NETWORK AUSTRALIA
• For information on Australian hobby aquaponics in backyards and rooftops, for home-based, organic fresh food production (fresh fish, fresh vegetables and fresh fruits).
• For information about Australian aquaponics for teaching science, biology, physics, chemistry and maths in more interesting ways.
• For information about Australia’s aquaponics business opportunities – especially on commercial rooftops, or in LED-lit investments deep inside buildings.
COST in Australia is A$135 a year, including 10% GST, or US$100 for members living in other countries.
Contact :
Geoff Wilson,
Director,
Aquaponics Network Australia
A networking, information and education division of
Qponics Pty Ltd (ACN 106 580 536)
32 David Road,
Holland Park 4121, Queensland, Australia.
Phone +61 7 3411 4524 Mobile: 0412 622 779.
Email: wilson.geoff@optusnet.com.au .
Who is this Geoff Wilson character? Has he ever contributed to ANY aquaponics forum discussion like this one in the past? Or is his expertise focused on running talkfests?
From the AAQ website
AAQ committee member Geoff Wilson has been a food and agriculture journalist and communicator since graduating from agricultural college in 1957. Beginning as a livestock industry journalist he has worked in wool, dairy, horticulture, forestry and aquaculture industry journalism and communications.
He has written for most rural newspapers and magazines in Australia and New Zealand, and for a number in Asia, Europe and the United States. At various times he was news editor of “Stock and Land” and editor of “Victorian Dairyfarmer”, “Australian Dairy Foods”, “Tree Farmer”, “Australian Forest Grower” and “International Tree Crops”. Concurrently for 10 years in the 1980s Geoff was agribusiness columnist the ”The Age” daily newspaper in Melbourne.
He currently writes on urban agriculture, aquaculture, aquaponics, and hydroponics, particularly for “Aquaponics Journal” in the United States.
As a director of Nettworx Publishing Pty Ltd., Geoff Wilson is now launching “Urban Agriculture Online” as an Internet-based information service. This will publish a fortnightly online newsletter to about 2,000 editors of trade and professional journals interested in the 30 or so topics of urban agriculture. “UAO” will also have monthly, in-depth reports and two-monthly “thesis watch” reports.
Geoff is President of the Urban Agriculture Network-Western Pacific and he has convened both Green Roofs for Healthy Australian Cities and Aquaponics Network Australia – two NGOs which will hive off from the Urban Agriculture Network “parent” as soon as sufficient members are recruited. He is Australian representative on the newly-formed World Green Roof Infrastructure Network made up of 16 national green roof organizations.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Geoff Wilson was honorary executive officer of the International Tree Crops Institute, which operated in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, China, India and Fiji. He organized conferences and seminars and an exchange program of scientists and technologists between Australia and China, and between the United States and China. This voluntary work followed Geoff Wilson’s winning of the Farm Writers and Broadcaster’s/Dalgety inaugural study award for a six week study of farm forestry in Australia and New Zealand, and the 1973 Gottstein Fellowship, for an 11-week study of the American Farm Tree System in 9 states of the United States. Geoff Wilson was guest of the New Zealand government for a two-week study of the Closer Economic Relations Treaty’s effect on the New Zealand economy, and was guest of the People’s Republic of China for a six-week study of the Great Green Wall of China and the Forest Net system of agroforestry in China.
This is the website with the current agenda:
It looks to be quite diferent from that proposed in the july 3 news in the thread above
http://www.aaq.com.au/geoff_wilson_2005.htm
Looks to be geared toward the comercial potential - I don't think I'd go expecting much help in running a home system but if you have an interest in the hatchery side ,political side or new species I would think the presenters list looks pretty good.
John
Sorry I was looking at the wrong conference when I posted that link
http://www.aquaculturehub.org/group/...-conference-is
that is the right one I think and is targeted more to the home market
Hi,
According to what I've read on another forum, it seems that the conference proposed for February may have been scrapped.
Gary
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
www.microponics.net.au - for candid dialogue on integrated backyard food production.
www.urbanaquaponics.com.au - the home of the Online Urban Aquaponics Manual.
At $350 a head when you can get all the info you need on these forums for free
If its free pick it up
Mr Geoff Wilson was a star speaker a few years ago at an Eco Show held in QLD. The room was packed with people eager to learn how to assemble an aquaponics system in their backyard. Geoff Wilson spoke of the many and varied commercial systems he had seen in the US and green roof his favourite topic. But when interupted by people eager that he tell them what plumbing they needed to build their own systems at home, what sort of fish, what kind of pump, stocking densities etc - Geoff was at a loss for words. I think Mr Wilson is more comfortable discussing the theory rather than the practise...
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