Solutions for Communities Worldwide

Addressing the worldwide challenges created by poverty, climate challenges and disaster recovery in an eco-friendly way with innovative solutions: that’s GreenHouse Community.

To help alleviate growing global concerns about poverty, disaster recovery and energy savings, the GreenHouse Community business segment has developed the innovative LifeVillage, a quickly deployable, sustainable and eco-friendly infrastructure that GreenHouse believes will become the standard for delivering self-sustainability. The entire system includes easily fabricated buildings, renewable power via solar panels and bio-waste ethanol, state-of-the-art water purification, and a completely sufficient vegetable and fish farm. The LifeVillage can be purchased in its entirety, or the components can be purchased separately. The applications for this “instant infrastructure” are almost unlimited, since there are many places around the world where access to electricity, clean water, and consistent food sources is scarce.

    Instant community contained in two standard-size shipping containers.

    The innovative LifeVillage system, a quickly deployable, sustainable and eco-friendly infrastructure can include physical buildings fabricated onsite, renewable power via solar panels and bio-waste ethanol, state-of-the-art water purification, and a completely sufficient vegetable and fish farm. The entire system can be purchased as a set, or as individual components.

    A few trained workers can construct a single building in about five hours, and the completely modular structures can be combined to form larger buildings such as schools, clinics, and community centers. Each LifeVillage is fabricated from light-gauge steel frames, which are formed with advanced, compact mechanical equipment on site. This allows the system, fully engineered to International Building Code standards, to be rapidly deployed. An entire LifeVillage can be built in one to two weeks.

     

    Powered by the Sun

    The LifeVillage system also includes photovoltaic equipment that provides electricity by capturing the sun’s energy. Covering just six structures with solar panels can generate 31.2 kW of electricity, or 60,000 kilowatt-hours over the course of a year…enough to power a medical clinic, school, and living quarters for teachers and doctors. The LifeVillage will also power up to 5,000 reading lights in the surrounding region, alleviating the need to build expensive power supply lines or the infrastructure needed to support them.

    One Community at a Time

    LifeVillages have the potential to change the world one community at a time. Developing nation communities and governments face many challenges, but their interests are largely aligned. It will take leadership on many fronts to successfully “solarize” the developing world, but doing so will have inestimable value for all nations. Reduced greenhouse gas emissions and reduced global demand for fossil fuels are just two examples of the positive outcomes for developing nations. The twentieth century saw the rise of industrialized nations from agrarian economies, but many nations were left behind. Developing nations now have the potential of being leaders in clean, renewable energy across the globe.

      Revolutionary patent pending invention for on-site food production facilities that scale easily (serving municipalities, institutions or back-yard farms) and provide years of reliable access to a source of low-fat protein and vegetables that can be grown organically.

      Although aquaponics (the simplest definition being “the symbiotic cultivation of plants and aquatic animals in a recirculating environment”) has been around in various forms for thousands of years, GreenHouse Portable Farms contain proprietary ways to produce yields that fall well within established production parameters for existing aquaponics systems, but with a much more stable system requiring less intervention and maintenance, featuring much greater environmental sustainability, when compared to competing technology.

      Benefits

      • Utilize a non-soil planting medium
      • Eliminate almost entirely the risk of pests and disease
      • Establish year-round productivity for your produce without using a fully climatized enclosure
      • Lessen the need to over-fish our oceans, rivers and lakes
      • Reduce groundwater impact, over-irrigation and discharge of pollutants attributable to in-ground farming.

      Information and Statistics

      • A single 90' x 120' (27.5m x 36.5m) unit produces 60,000 vegetables 23,000 lbs. (10,400 kgs) of fish per year
      • A single 20' x 30' (6m x 9m) unit produces 3,600 vegetables 1,400 lbs. (635 kgs) of fish per year
      • A single 10' x 20' (3m x 6m) unit produces 1,100 vegetables 400 lbs. (180 kgs) of fish per year
      • A single 6' x 8' (1.8m x 2.5m) unit produces 400 vegetables 100 lbs. (45 kgs) of fish per year.