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Student Presentation

Living Green with Aquaponics
Vanessa Rodgers, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, vrodgers@hawaii.edu Sarah Myhre, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, smyhre@hawaii.edu

The authors wanted to design a course on an environmental system that could be built and utilized by virtually anyone, anywhere in the world to reduce reliance on imported food from the World Food Market. The authors researched the field of Aquaponics, a combination of hydroponics and aquaculture, and found that it has the ability to benefit places with poor soil quality, water scarcity, and dwindling fish supplies. “Living Green with Aquaponics” was the result of this research, and was developed as an asynchronous five-week online course in Laulima, a Sakai-based course management system created by the University of Hawaii. The major goal of this course is to teach those interested in Aquaponics: what it is and its potential applications to environmental sustainability around the world.

All Audiences asychronous online course, Aquaponics, Laulima