Resource Politics

Phosphorus is a political atom. You need it in order to grow food. For Finland,  phosphorus is less political as finnish population is only 5.4 million and as it is pretty easy to grow enough food for it but for countries that don't have their own rock phosphorus deposits like India and central europe access to rock phosphorus becomes an issue of national security and food security.

 

Peak Phosphorus

World food production is dependent on rock phosphorus and unfortunately it is a limited resource. Recycling phosphorus is one way of making best use of limited resource.
http://ekodiplomaatit.blogspot.com/2011/01/tarvitaanko-hiilidioksidia-lisaa.html

http://kemikaalikimara.blogspot.com/2010/01/kylmasti-ilman-fosfaatteja.html

http://blogs.helsinki.fi/ruoka-ja-kestavyys/2009/05/31/fosforikysymys-onko-vastauksia/

http://www.luomu.fi/mistaruokatulee/haastattelut/Turtola/Turtola_controller.swf

Mid-review

On Monday the 20th of February we had the chance to see what other groups were doing, and to show what we've done so far. Although the meeting was called "mid-review", it was more like a first look.
Just like us, the other groups are still looking for the right way to execute their project. Instead of presenting what we're going to do, we let the audience do a a bit of brainstorming for us. Asking questions like "What do you think would happen without phosphorus?" and "How would you tell the public about this?", we wanted to get some on help on "thinking outside the box".
The resulting answers are presented in the picture below. 

Good ideas come in all colours.

We got a lot of good ideas for our project. Thanks to everyone for participating!