Aquaponics author to address trends on Green Streets
by grmeyers
Bevan Suits,Sustainable Design Group
Bevan Suits, head of Sustainable Design Group and recently featured on Green Streets in a review of his Aquaponics Guidebook, penned this analysis: “Hydroponics is an industry. Aquaculture is an industry. Aquaponics is not an industry…yet. What current trends will guide its growth?”
As author of The Aquaponics Guidebook, Access to Personal Agriculture, Suits has a pretty good notion about how such questions might be answered, especially by today’s college students.
To make a point, he refers to compelling book on food by Michael Pollan, “In Defense of Food.”
If you have not read the book, this quote tells a lot about his concerns. “Food. There’s plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?
“Because most of what we’re consuming today is not food, and how we’re consuming it — in the car, in front of the TV, and increasingly alone — is not really eating. Instead of food, we’re consuming “edible foodlike substances” — no longer the products of nature but of food science.”
Suits believes Pollan’s work appears to be taken as a call to action by many university students attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Incoming freshmen were given copies of the book for free and seemed happy to think of it as a guidebook.
