Backyard Aquaponics
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Hello World!
My name is Jason Childs, i'm currently a participating part of PEPSI COLA's Refresh Your World project.
Every month PEPSI has judges who pick project submissions that they feel are good ideas that can help or improve to Refresh our world. This month my project was selected )
My submission is a Solar Powered Urban Aquaponics Farm, that uses abandoned homes and vacant lots for urban farming areas that will produce organically grown fish and produce and other green produced products.
We will offer these items to the community to help improve the quality & style of current eating habits, as well as teach people to produce their own at home. This project will sustain it's self by teaching the surrounding communities of all the techniques and procedures to sustain this project, selling and marketing the products to area Schools, Markets, and Restaurants, providing organically produced fresh food locally. Even more so we will provide jobs for people that need them. The plans are to establish our first location of many all over the city/country/world. We will offer scholarships to people who have a desire to pursue and sustain our mission & goals further.
I am reaching out to my fellow Aquaponic farmers, teachers, or just plain old fans of this movement, to help me establish the fist one of this level in the USA, Philadelphia, PA area. You can go to PEPSI COLA's website directly and follow links to vote for "EZ GROW GREEN" or you can go to this link directly and vote on the page they provided to me... you can vote everyday once a day! You can even power vote with special codes on pepsi products that will give you additional votes for this project!

http://www.refresheverything.com/search ... grow+green

I have 30 days to try to make it to the top 10 , if I get there I will get the funding needed to make this a reality! I am currently ranked #170 which is ok, I know that it can happen! Thank you very much if you decide to help, even if you don't please take the time to learn about this process as it can help you and your family and the world!
Thank you all in advance!
http://www.refresheverything.com/search ... grow+green "EZ GROW GREEN"

Hi Jason, bit of an advert for Pepsi for a first post, almost didn't allow this through as a first post... But I just hope that you'll have a little to add about what your doing in return..

Consider this a big No vote from me. Whilst you may have a good idea for the project, I will not support Pepsi (or other large Cola manufacturers) in any way shape or form.

http://www.naturalnews.com/021962.html

Ummm yeah, pepsi refreshing the world, I think not

Earthbound, thank you!!! very much for allowing this....I don't expect everybody to contribute or even agree with this, but when you have limited resources and are trying to make a serious change you go for it! Even though PEPSI is the sponsor, they don't control the project at all, they provide funds and over see it so that people don't use the monies fraudulently. They may benefit from promotions, but the people who need jobs, better quality food, and the resources from training, that is more important to me. Thank you to all of the people who choose to help, and thank you to all who don't, we are all part of a huge movement to change the world in a good way! Bless you!

Ill keep everyone posted on the progress, either way it's going to happen! Just may take a little longer....I still have an open door to anyone who wishes to help in any way.

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Bullwinkell, thanks for sharing! Please let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions for me! Thanks, keep it green!

That does seem like a bit of a joke on that site.. There are people there wanting 250 grand to set up aquaponics systems. They provide almost no information about what they want to do, no real plans, and just use other peoples pictures..

Well to be honest the way its setup it doesn't have much room for the actual plans or layout and does leave a lot of details out. When I first made the page it was kind of a last minute rush just so I could make a qualifying offer before the deadline. Once I did that, they took another month just to say ok, the bad thing is once you make the page you cant change or edit it. I am sorry about that I hope it doesn't turn to many people away, but the research I have done and the experience I do have with farming & fish and animal husbandry Im confident that it will all come together and be a great project. People are offering help and support and it feels good. I look forward to taking the smaller systems to a much larger level. Here's my brother's first setup and I didn't even know he was building one!
Thanks again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u2L-cmKAp0