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Podcast: Imagining A Food Self-Sufficient Village Of The Future

by Michael Wolf
April 27, 2017May 1, 2017Filed under:
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When we think about the smart home, most of us think about what is doable today.

But what will new homes and neighborhoods look like twenty five, fifty, hundred years from now as we face a world of dwindling resources?

That’s what my guest James Ehrlich thinks about every single day.  James is a former video game entrepreneur turned successful TV documentary producer turned CEO of ReGen Villages, a company that is building the ‘Tesla of Ecovillages’.   James and I talk about how our homes and neighborhoods will evolve to become interconnected and self-sustaining – what James calls ‘regenerative’ – in the future.


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