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“A Fluid Definition of Self-Sufficiency” Waterpod is a barge near the Brooklyn Navy Yard that is an experiment in sustainbale living.  (It’s still under construction.)  The NYT reports: The project, which has been financed with private donations and grants, is intended to be self-sustaining: food will be grown onboard, some of it in hydroponic gardens; drinking water derived from purified rainwater; electricity generated through a mix of solar, wind and bicycle power; and waste recycled into compost. John McGarvey, an art consultant who is serving in an unpaid capacity as the project’s executive director, compared it to “farm life, minus the livestock — but inside the fishbowl of New York City.”

“A Fluid Definition of Self-Sufficiency”

Waterpod is a barge near the Brooklyn Navy Yard that is an experiment in sustainbale living.  (It’s still under construction.)  The NYT reports:

The project, which has been financed with private donations and grants, is intended to be self-sustaining: food will be grown onboard, some of it in hydroponic gardens; drinking water derived from purified rainwater; electricity generated through a mix of solar, wind and bicycle power; and waste recycled into compost.

John McGarvey, an art consultant who is serving in an unpaid capacity as the project’s executive director, compared it to “farm life, minus the livestock — but inside the fishbowl of New York City.”