The Island School - An Amazing Story Indeed

The Future of Food ProductionAnd what does Tilapia fish poop have to do with it?

The Future of Food ProductionIsland School, Island of Eleuthera, Bahamas

Island School – Amazing Story

• Ex Navy Seal Starts School – H.S. semester abroad program• He forms Cape Eleuthera Institute – Mini Woods Hole• Reaches out to local poor and starts middle school• Self sufficient, off the grid, sustainable life support solutions

o Electricity – Solar and Windo Water – harvesting the raino Bio Diesel from waste cooking oil from cruise shipso State of the art non-polluting septic solutiono Trash – they recycle everything. Nothing wasted.o They even make their own furnitureo Zero Waste Goal for Future

Island School – Amazing Story

• Sustainable food productiono Aquaponics - vegetables grown in water (hint-fish poop)o Aquaculture - off shore carnivorous fish farming 4,000 – 5,000 at a time!!!!

Island School – Amazing Story

• Extensive shark and bonefish researchHow do you get a shark to go to sleep for you?

Island School – Amazing Story

• Simple…just roll him over on his back but don’t try this at home…..

Island School – Amazing Story

• Sometimes they end up in the Mediterranean

Sustainable EnergyPower of the Sun and Wind – What it’s like to be off the grid

Water – Harvesting the Rain

Can you drink it ???

Of course….

With multi filtering sand & U.V. filters

Amazing that you don’t see this anywhere in the U.S.

Water conservation Navy showers Waterless urinals If it’s yellow, let it mellow….

Unique Solution for Septic WasteEvery time you flush – a flower blooms

Trash – Where Does It All Go ?Save Those Scraps

Trash – Where Does It All Go ?Here piggy, piggy piggy

What the pigs won’t eat…

The worms will…

How do you recycle plastic?First of all…don’t buy it in the first place

If you do, don’t dispose of it in a landfill

If buying it is unavoidable,

Island School wants to turn it into lumber….like TREX.

Now all they need is a $50k grant to buy the extruding maching…. SOME DAY SOON THEY HOPE

Biodiesel – Love Boat to School VanStart with a cruise ship

Then take their spent frying oil off their hands

Biodiesel – Love Boat to School VanRecipe…

A little used frying oil Add methanol and sodium hydroxide

Like magic you get diesel fuel

OK…so it’s not that simple…

But exhaust does smell like french fries

Aquaponics – The poop on growing lettuce

Start with a few hundred tilapia fish…

Let ‘em stew in a tank for a while….

Well…let’s just say the water contains a lot of nutrients….

Aquaponics – The poop on growing lettuce

Pump the water to the farm platforms… using solar power of course.

Add some lettuce seedlings…

Aquaponics – The poop on growing lettuce

“Let tus eat “…

Enough lettuce and herbs to feed an Army….

Aquaculture – How to grow a big fishStart with a mommy and a daddy fish (otherwise known as brood stock)

And let ‘em spawn a whole bunch of eggs - 4,000 – 5,000 at a time

Aquaculture – How to grow a big fishTransfer the little fishies into bigger tanks and watch them grow….

Do you think they like each other?

Aquaculture – How to grow a big fish

Let them get a little bigger…..

Aquaculture – How to grow a big fishTransfer them into a huge offshore underwater cage….. then wait 8 months…..

Aquaculture – How to grow a big fishLower the cage into 100 feet of water, give or take a few feet…..

Aquaculture – How to grow a big fishFeed the fish every day and tend to the cage from time to time…..

Aquaculture – How to grow a big fishView of submerged cage…..

Top of cage at 30 feet

Bottom of cage at 90 feet

Hey, it takes a pretty big cage to house 5,000 three-foot fish…..

Aquaculture – How to grow a big fishEight months later…..

Now That’s A Really Big Fish !!!!

Island School – Amazing Story Indeed

Maybe some day their research will help feed the world