Integrating Systems – Forget the Theory, What About the Practice Greening the Greenhouse: Designing a Carbon Neutral Future – 2 nd April 2008

Creating a sustainability experience, connecting global and local issues & promoting sustainable ways of living to safeguard future communities and ecosystems

Integrated Greenhouse Project Phase 0 (2003/4) SEEDA 2003 Seed funding - £40k GreenSys 2004 Established partnerships with Professor Gerard Bot and team at Wageningen University, and the renewable energy team at TV Energy

Integrated Greenhouse Project Phase 1 (2005/6) Human Impact Building (ReDiscover/Millennium Commission) Purpose: To demonstrate sustainable low-carbon greenhouse design, integrated with other buildings

Our Heating Journey … from fossil fuel to local wood chip... the first public indoor rainforest garden to convert to wood chip heating CO2 emissions per unit of energy supplied Grams of CO2 per kWh Woodfuelled heat Wind power Solar PV m-si Solar PV p-Si Natural gas heating Light fuel oil heating

Integrated Greenhouse Project Phase 2 (2007/8) Green Greenhouse / Vertical Soil Heat Exchanger (VSHE)

The Problem Unsustainable food/crop production in energy-wasteful greenhouses, using non-renewable energy Lack of integration of greenhouses with associated buildings for improved energy management Lack of investment in low-carbon footprint greenhouses Confusion about what is best practice for producers and consumers

Greening the Greenhouse: “so much for the theory ” integration part I continuity of supply how big is your bunker? Infinity and beyond, integration part II No questions please, wait for the workshop ;^)

Greening the Greenhouse: “so much for the theory” integration part I –If demand < capacityBiomB = happiness –If demand > capacityOilB = happiness –If demand > capB < capO = disquiet! put both devices ‘behind’ the buffer? discuss…remember the workshop

Greening the Greenhouse: “so much for the theory” In conclusion… We’re proud of our biomass boiler We’re going to make it work Bring on the GSHP! If we knew then what we knew now … Workshop anyone?

Thank you! Please contact us if you have any questions. Integrated Greenhouse Project The Living Rainforest Hampstead Norreys Berkshire RG18 0TN Karl Hansen, Project Leader Andrew Logan, Project Coordinator