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Everyone wants to know about me. How about the project instead.
The Greenhouse Project is an idea I had after I've seen food prices go up due to fuel prices but when fuel prices came down food prices stayed the same. Also, a store I use to frequent raised prices on everything but their own brand name items, essentially ripping off customers. Far too often people can't afford healthy organic food resorting to what they can afford which is far less nutritious. Far too much food is imported from south of the border, or farther away and not enough grown locally to reduce food miles or pollution. So, I came up with the idea as way to grow organic food year-round in a greenhouse needing no fossil fuels.

• Can China feed itself again?

  By richard boettner on June 5, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  The short answer is yes, but… In an earlier article I explained how China built the Three Gorges dam, and flooded enough land to reduce its production by a substantial amount, forcing China to import an ever increasing amount from… Read More ›

• Conservation, reduction in energy use is missing

  By richard boettner on May 12, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  China has an impressive plan to become more sustainable as can be seen from the draft report China’s National Energy Strategy and Reform. In this report the word conservation is mentioned 76 times and yet not once with regard to… Read More ›

• China food production

  By richard boettner on May 3, 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  There is trouble researching information or finding a historical timeline to see when the last time China was able to produce enough food to feed itself, but it is safe to say it was some time before Communism set in…. Read More ›

• All the magnets, no high speed trains

  By richard boettner on May 1, 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  China is beginning to explore high speed train technology, and who knows where it could lead. To illustrate some ideas about China’s emerging high-speed train technology, the author provides the following theoretical discussion: I’ve been discussing the idea that if… Read More ›

• China wants more clean energy & eco-cities

  By richard boettner on April 25, 2012 • ( 6 )

  

  The issue of energy could take up a hundred pages or more to do a proper job in covering China’s issues and the building of eco-friendly cities, so only a small picture is presented in this article. The fact that… Read More ›

• Comment on the environment in China

  By richard boettner on April 24, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  Nature is the only thing that is currently truly sustainable on our planet. There’s plenty of greenwashing going on right now, especially in the U.S.  Greenhouse Project Denver is concerned with growing more local food year round in an almost… Read More ›