I thought that the collision of these two #Climate related stories in my news feed was interesting:

Story 1: https://thebristolcable.org/2023/08/urban-growing-laying-ground-for-food-revolution-can-it-become-reality/

Story 2: https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/solar-farm-approved-on-outskirts-of-bristol/

Both are great news. Story 1 examines the potential for #local #food growth in and around #Bristol.
This is something that I'm passionate about - you could take the #ClimateChange stance, or the local #resiliency stance, or the supporting people to re-engage with the #Earth stance. It also aligns nicely with #Schumacher's 'Small Is Beautiful' philosophy.

Story 2 is about a new #Solar farm being approved on the outskirts of Bristol.

Again - big YES. Give me that free energy that's been falling on our heads since the dawn of recorded time!

What interested me is the collision in between land uses.

In story 1, we hear that #Bristol has the potential to oversupply the #fruit and #vegetable needs of its population if "all of its green space was used for urban growing". This includes currently unused tracts of land beside the motorway, not just urban snippets and disused corners.

Story 2 naturally needs space. Solar farms need to go on the land.

So is there a tension between the needs for human power (food) and the need for technological power (solar = energy = phone chargers, heart monitors, oxygen pumps etc)?

Is there a balance between the two, and what choices need to be made?

This might not be "A Thing", but it sparked my interest & I'd love to hear from folks in the know!

#ClimateChange #ClimateSystem #Agriculture #SolarPower #RenewableEnergy #Farming #UrbanFarms #AgroEcology #LocalProduction