From the Los Angeles Times via NY Times' Mark Bittman, an article on Houwelings Hothouse, a Delta B.C. company that has developed an incredibly innovative model of greenhouse agriculture, and for climate reasons, applied it in southern California. This is truly a Canadian export success story.
Their vast twenty acre greenhouses use half the water of traditional agriculture, use sequestered CO2 and rely on equally vast arrays of photovoltaic cells for half of their power. And the growing process relies on a small fraction of the pesticides and artificial nutrients used in outdoor growing or traditional greenhouse operations. I have included a copy of their report on sustainable agriculture here (PDF). And it produces the type of year-round green collar job that everyone is talking about.
In short it is a technology that we could export to the world.
When Industry Minister Tony Clement is finished screwing the auto workers, maybe he can turn his attention to assisting Canadian champions such as this.
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