أمريكا مفترق إلى مزرعة الكابيتول

أكبر سكرامنتو

وقد التزمت الملوك سكرامنتو لبرنامج الغذاء والاستدامة المحلية المفرطة لمطاعم الحلبة والعمليات الغذائية. (صوره المجاملة من سكرامنتو الملوك)

14 ديسمبر 2016

العاصمة الامريكيه ؟ Since the opening of the Golden 1 Center this past October, Sacramento startup California Safe Soil has been collecting food scraps from the King’s food vendors and turning it into a liquid fertilizer. The collection of uncooked foods by the arena is part of a فلسفه المزرعة إلى المحكمة Kings Chairman and Owner, Vivek Ranadivé, released earlier this year. In it, he identified 10 guiding principles that would govern all food, sustainability, sourcing and recycling activities at Golden 1 Center. وأضاف "مع الساحة الجديدة ، ذهبيه 1 المركز ، ونحن نري فرصه لتكريم مباشره الناس والقيم من سكرامنتو" ، وكتب. One of the pledges in that statement includes implementing a new waste management plan that would substantially reduce the landfill footprint of the arena. California Safe Soil uses food that would otherwise be buried in a landfill to help farmers grow more crops with less water and chemical fertilizers. "سكرامنتو هي الولايات الامريكيه من المزرعة إلى مفترق العاصمة. نحن نريد ان نجعل سكرامنتو أمريكا مفترق إلى مزرعة الكابيتول كذلك ، "كاليفورنيا الرئيس التنفيذي للتربة الأمن دان موراش يقول. The Kings also announced a plan to source 90 percent of culinary ingredients from growers and producers operating within a 150-mile radius of Golden 1 Center with the support of executive chef Michael Tuohy of Legends Hospitality.

يتضمن ميثاق سكرامنتو كينغ للغذاء والاستدامة احكاما للاستعانة بنسبه 90 في المائة من مكونات الطهي من داخل دائره نصف قطرها 150 ميل من المركز الذهبي 1 والحد من بصمه مدافن النفايات من خلال الاداره المستدامة للنفايات . (صوره المجاملة من سكرامنتو الملوك)

مشكله النفايات الغذائية

Food waste in the United States is a $165,000,000,000--مشكله الدولار. ما يصل إلى 40 ٪ من المواد الغذائية التي يتم إنتاجها في الولايات المتحدة لا تؤكل أبدا ، ولكنها فقدت ببساطه ، علي كل مستوي من السلسلة الغذائية. السوبر ماركت تخسر ما يقدر ب $15,000,000,000 في الفواكه والخضروات غير المباعة وحدها ، وفقا لوزارة الزراعة. Where does all this wasted food wind up? In landfills, mostly. In California, 18% of all the trash that goes to landfills comes from food scraps. The problem is not simply one of space. Decomposing food scraps also emit methane, a short-lived, but particularly potent greenhouse gas. وابتداء من نيسان/ابريل الماضي ، وفي محاولة لخفض انبعاثات غاز الميثان من مدافن النفايات ، وضع قانون جديد للدولة (AB 1826) will require businesses in California to recycle their organic waste. The law will also contribute to a statewide goal of تخفيض 75 ٪ من النفايات العضوية أو أعاده تدويرها أو سمادها بنسبه 2020. The California Air Resources Board recently مقترح to ban the disposal of organic wastes in landfills completely by 2025.   How to handle that waste is an open question. According to the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), القدرة علي الولاية ليست سوي ثلث إلى نصف 10,000,000 طن من النفايات العضوية التي تنتهي في مدافن القمامة في كاليفورنيا كل عام.

إغلاق حلقه في سكرامنتو

California Safe Soil owns the intellectual property rights and a few patents for a technology that deals with both of these problems by creating a liquid fertilizer from food waste in a matter of hours. The company’s founder and CEO, Dan Morash, had seen all kinds of different technology in renewable energy and adaptive reuse of waste over the course of a 30-year career as an investment banker on Wall Street. “There weren’t any good technologies for food waste recycling,” he says. When the technology for his product came along, he decided to locate his business in Sacramento for three main reasons. One, the $1.7 billion agricultural market in California, which consists primarily of specialty crops such as fruits, vegetables and nuts. The company decided that local growers of higher margin crops would be more likely to invest in a new product that promises better growth. وقد وفر الموقع التالي لجامعه كاليفورنيا في ديفيس ، وهي أحدي الجامعات الزراعية الرائدة في البلد ، بحوثا تدعم سلامه المنتج وأثاره علي نمو المحاصيل. The third main reason to set up here was the capital. “If you plan on building any kind of project in the State of California, you had better know your way around the regulatory situation,” Morash says. The company spent the last four years building these relationships and demonstrating their technology in a pilot facility in West Sacramento, before relocating in October to a new commercial-scale facility at the McClellan Business Park.  

كاليفورنيا التربة الامنه يجمع الاطعمه غير الماكوله قصاصات من محلات البقالة والآن الساحة الذهبية 1 مركز ويخلق الاسمده السائلة منه باستخدام براءة اختراع تكنولوجيا الهضم الانزيمي. (صوره مجامله من كاليفورنيا التربة الامنه)

من السوبر ماركت إلى التربة

California Safe Soil has long-term contracts with all 225 Save Mart supermarkets and several other California grocery chains, including Safeway, Inc., Nugget Markets, Inc., Whole Foods and Grocery Outlet. The company collects the unsold produce, meat, deli and bakery food wastes within two days of being removed from supermarket shelves. In the plant, this waste is ground up, heated and mixed with enzymes before being pasteurized for safety. "ان المتطلبات الراسماليه متواضعة جدا ، بالمقارنة مع التكنولوجيات البديلة مثل الهضم لاهوائي والسماد العضوي ، مع بصمه بيئية أصغر بكثير ، والمنتج النهائي الأكثر قيمه ،" العلماء من جامعه كاليفورنيا وذكر ديفيس في العام الماضي في مجلة الإنتاج الأنظف. "بما ان العملية ليس لها انبعاثات جوية كبيره ، أو نفايات سائله ، أو مخلفات صلبه ، أو روائح للإزعاج ، فمن الممكن الحصول علي جميع تصاريح التشغيل اللازمة في المناطق الحضرية". The whole process takes only a few hours, rather than months, like it does in traditional compost, and results in a liquid, organic fertilizer that farmers buy to grow more fruits and vegetables. In field trials, farmers have reported yield increases up to 33%, while using up to 25% less water and reducing the need for costly nitrogen-based fertilizers.

وتنمو النباتات التي تعطي الاسمده السائلة للتربة الامنه في كاليفورنيا جذورا أكثر ، مما يساعدها علي تناول المزيد من المياه والاسمده من التربة ، وزيادة الغلات والحد من النفايات. (صوره مجامله من كاليفورنيا التربة الامنه)

كيف يعمل

The company’s flagship product, Harvest-to-Harvest (H2H), can be applied to crops using existing irrigation drip lines. The fertilizer works by stimulating the growth of a diverse population of microbes in the soil, causing the plant to grow more roots, take up more water and fertilizer, and increase flowering and fruiting. The reality underground is much more complex and is the result of a complex web of interrelationships between the billions of microbes living in soil and the plant roots. Plants get carbon from the atmosphere, during photosynthesis, and use it to create the molecular material they need to grow. However, scientists believe that nearly one-third of that carbon is never used, but is released into the soil through the plant’s roots. If this sounds like a loss, it’s not. The microbes that feed on these nutrient-rich secretions can suppress pathogens in soil, break organic matter into nutrients plants can use, and stimulate root growth, among other things. الهدف من السماد ، ثم ، هو تكرار هذه العملية الطبيعية والحفاظ علي الطاقة عن طريق وضع بعض هذه المواد العضوية مره أخرى في التربة. مواجهه ببساطه يجعل هذا يحدث بشكل أسرع.

فرصه ذهبيه

While most of California Safe Soil’s existing clients are local supermarkets, the company has ambitions to provide their service nationwide, throughout the food supply chain. “One of the appeals of Golden 1, in addition to it being such a landmark for the City of Sacramento, is that it demonstrates one of many other ways that we can make this program work,” says Morash.  The Sacramento Kings discovered California Safe Soil at a بدء المنافسة the team hosted earlier this year.

تقديم المركز الذهبي 1. (صوره المجاملة من سكرامنتو الملوك)

الملوك الامتياز ، ويقول الرئيس راناديفييه ، يمكن ان يكون "منبرا للخير ، والاحاديه للمجتمع ، وفي أفضل ما لدينا ، رمزا للمنطقة مذهله الفريق يدعو الوطن". “When you’re running a league like the NBA, and you’re running a league like the Sacramento Kings, you’re very visible,” says Dr. Allen Hershkowitz, Co-Founder of the NBA Green program, Green Sports Alliance and Green Sports International. “Look at it this way. Billions of dollars are spent every year to advertise with sports venues. Why do companies do that? They do that because they must assume that by affiliating with sports somehow, they are going to influence the culture of the marketplace.” وقدم هيرشكويتز والملوك سكرامنتو مؤخرا عرضا لجميع رؤساء فريق الدوري الأميركي للمحترفين 30 علي فوائد الاستدامة. “The situation we’re in is the result of literally hundreds of millions of ecologically ignorant decisions that have been made for centuries. Now we need hundreds of millions of ecologically intelligent decisions to move us forward. And that’s what this represents. The Kings are doing their part,” says Hershkowitz.

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