Modeling an Eco-Friendly Future for Hopedale

Preserving the past while creating a universally aligned future with Hydroponics / Aquaponics, Clean Energy creation and Open Education.

My wife and I recently downsized and moved into Hopedale, MA and I began running by the Draper Mills uptown almost daily. The Draper Mills became the focus of my attention and I quickly started designing a future for the space. In designing the future I needed first to examine the past…

“In order to live in a sustainable new world we must first envision it. The only way to envision it is to build it outside the world we’re currently living in.”

I re-imagined the space, the mills, the way the town was and brought it all forward by rebuilding and re-purposing the Draper Mills to feed and support the community by turning it into a combined Hydroponics and Aquaponics factory. I further added in a Clean Energy creation and distribution facility to further support the Hopedale community and beyond.

“The town is built on a natural aquifer. A combined Hydroponics and Aquaponics factory can feed the town and supporting communities – while guaranteeing the water supply and natural surroundings remain clean and natural for generations.”

As a service to the families in the community I added in primary and secondary education (Open Education) in the form of a Ross School. To balance that and afford a broader scope of education I added in an Adobe Learning Center, a state of the art Media Center and secondary education IT Learning and Testing Center.

The site also contains a new math, physics and molecular laboratory to support the new Hydroponics and Aquaponics Factory and a Holistic Healing center to teach Physical Health and Spiritual Wellness. I then topped off the education centers with an observatory to the stars – The Electric Universe.

“The academic and wellness centers are designed with a Ross School curriculum and methodology that integrates academics with physical and spiritual attainment and the arts, with practical workplace skills – fully aligned with nature.”

All of these services can be used in conjunction with Hopedale’s primary education centers while opening up the Secondary Education, Health and Spiritual Wellness Centers to the surrounding communities.

These new education centers are designed to co-mingle with Hopedale’s current centers of education while the Spiritual and Healing Arts centers are designed to co-mingle with our sisters and brothers in Hopedale’s religious communities.

To finish and support the space through income and services I added in retail units with a restaurant and coffee house and housing in the form of rental units above the free-standing retail space.

“I build upon Draper’s utopian vision of Hopedale as an intellectual society and re-created for the town a clean prosperous future, and a model for The New World^®.”

The town would have new income streams with its combined Hydroponics and Aquaponics Factory. Add in Hopedale’s new Clean Energy manufacturing and distribution hub with it’s Primary and Secondary Education centers it’ll help drive up home values and to draw in new people, new technologies and new business from the surrounding Massachusetts communities and beyond.
 

Hydroponics, Aquaponics and Vertical Farming

Feeding a ecological minded Massachusetts town and the supporting communities for life – Amazon style.

With 7.5 Billion people in the world that’s destined to increase to 10 Billion by the end of the 2050, the biggest challenge will be how to feed those hungry mouths naturally and sustainably. The answer to that question may have been answered successfully today with the Dutch system of Aquaponics and Vertical Farming.

“The planet will need to produce more food in the next four decades than all farmers in history have harvested over the past 8,000 years.”

“Our children will broadcast what we’re building and learning here and share it with the world.”