{"id":30393,"date":"2015-04-08T11:35:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T11:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.trueactivist.com\/?p=30393"},"modified":"2019-02-16T02:43:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T02:43:24","slug":"inspirational-new-project-uses-nasa-technology-to-build-a-green-future-t1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trueactivist.com\/inspirational-new-project-uses-nasa-technology-to-build-a-green-future-t1\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspirational New Project Uses NASA Technology To Build A Green Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Haven For Humanity is an exciting project with the aim of encouraging people to harmonize with nature<\/a> and learn self-sufficiency<\/a> methods. The project founders describe it as a “budding paradigm-shift community center and natural hygiene inspiration center”, set in the Catskill Mountains in New Haven,\u00a0upstate\u00a0New York.<\/p>\n The not-for-profit project was started by the Kovalyov family\u00a0in 2011. They had been considering the impact of our modern-day rat race existence on human health, stress levels and the environment, and decided to build a place where an alternative<\/a>, natural lifestyle could thrive.<\/p>\n “We are passionate about re-connecting with what it really means to be a human<\/a> being,” says Sam Kovalyov in the video above. The aim was to build a blue-print for a new, harmonious existence with nature<\/a>, and demonstrate how green our future could be.<\/p>\n The family, along with volunteers, have built a futuristic bioenergy greenhouse<\/a> dome,\u00a0designed with room for over 600 organic<\/a> and aquaponic fruit and vegetable plants,\u00a0a host of\u00a0fresh-water organic fish, gourmet mushroom<\/a> logs, fresh-water organic clams, and hundreds of\u00a0gallons of fresh organic<\/a> compost.<\/p>\n Inspired by research by NASA, the large moat on the interior of the greenhouse<\/a> contains large amounts of organic matter and algae<\/a> which act as nutrients for plant<\/a> growth and fish food, and can also be turned into natural gas<\/a> through the use of an\u00a0anaerobic digester. This gas will be used to run a generator<\/a> as well as any natural gas appliances, allowing for near complete self-sufficiency at the location.<\/p>\n The project is set to open its doors to the public this summer 2015, and will offer a range of workshops and learning opportunities including\u00a0raw-vegan<\/a> cooking classes, yoga and meditation to name a few, as well as allowing visitors to explore (and feast on) its beautiful 40-acre edible<\/a> forest<\/a>. Find out more here<\/a>\u00a0and watch the video above to see how the biodome technology works in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Haven For Humanity is an exciting project with the aim of encouraging people to harmonize with nature and learn self-sufficiency methods. The project founders describe it as a “budding paradigm-shift…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3030,"featured_media":30489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,108,66,8],"tags":[1770,1106,1374,1391,1429,515],"yoast_head":"\n