American architect James Ehrlich has been given a go-ahead by officials in the Netherlands to build an eco-village about 30 miles from Amsterdam. This village is going to be a modern neighborhood that would generate its own power using a closed loop system that would also recycle all the waste and generate all the food. Ehrlich is putting his own money on the line for his ambitious project.<\/p>\n
Ehrlich founded\u00a0ReGen Villages in 2016 as a startup company intending to disrupt the way the world thinks about housing, development and transportation, and how these CO2-heavy sectors can be overhauled to create a green, self-sustaining lifestyle.<\/p>\n
Under his vision, each ReGen village would incorporate entirely self-sustainable systems for waste management, water treatment, and food production, electricity would be generated through solar, biogas from food and animal waste, and geothermal sources.<\/p>\n
Special aquaponic gardens would combine fish farming with aquatic agriculture that allow residents to cultivate a sustainable micro-ecosystem to produce fish and produce. Human waste would be composted to feed the ecosystems, with the fish waste providing a critical source of fertilizer for the gardens.<\/p>\n