Day 5 - Hydro Power and an Organic Farm
There were significantly less calories consumed today!
This morning started with a lecture from an LdM architecture professor, Marco Sorito, on renewable energy in Italy. From there we walked to the train station which allowed us to get a better glimpse of putblic transport in Italy and we boarded a private bus to the Bilancino Lake dam and hydro electric power plant. We learned how this dam was first built in 1966 as a resivoir to prevent flooding in Florence. Much later it was converted into a hydro electric power station to generate income to further the work of this resivoir. We were able to visit both the dam am intake as well as the turbine house and learn about Frances hydro turbines.
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We returned to Florence and took a brief break and then joined another LdM faculty, Martina Delle Chiaie on the public bus system to a small organic CSA farm, Semele. There Giovanni Petrini explained his method for returning farming to the traditional methods and relying on strategies that worked for most of our human existence to grow simple, helthy food. We picked delicious cherries and had a tasting at the farm of fresh greens, onions and baby zucchini with (of course) olive oil and vinegar. We appreciate the simple, healthy food!
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Tomorrow is mainly a free day to tour the Florence Museums.
There were significantly less calories consumed today!
This morning started with a lecture from an LdM architecture professor, Marco Sorito, on renewable energy in Italy. From there we walked to the train station which allowed us to get a better glimpse of putblic transport in Italy and we boarded a private bus to the Bilancino Lake dam and hydro electric power plant. We learned how this dam was first built in 1966 as a resivoir to prevent flooding in Florence. Much later it was converted into a hydro electric power station to generate income to further the work of this resivoir. We were able to visit both the dam am intake as well as the turbine house and learn about Frances hydro turbines.
.We returned to Florence and took a brief break and then joined another LdM faculty, Martina Delle Chiaie on the public bus system to a small organic CSA farm, Semele. There Giovanni Petrini explained his method for returning farming to the traditional methods and relying on strategies that worked for most of our human existence to grow simple, helthy food. We picked delicious cherries and had a tasting at the farm of fresh greens, onions and baby zucchini with (of course) olive oil and vinegar. We appreciate the simple, healthy food!
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Tomorrow is mainly a free day to tour the Florence Museums.
The important question of the day is.... who's going to bring BJ a half pound of some sustainable Italian coffee (whole bean) to "analyze" ???
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