it's been present in mining disputes back and kind of personally i don't see spitzbergen as a place where people should be living. because it's gone to such an extreme climate and it's so unsustainable to live here but there will never come a time when people don't live here so i think it's a very good idea to try growing your own plants here. but harbaugh says it's about more than just having fresh vegetables on spitsbergen. this technique that we developed here can be used to grow food in this inner city it can be used to grow food on different islands so it has many. applications to other places as well so if we can do it here it can be done anywhere this is the most challenging place to do it. benjamin vidmar believes that if his ideas can take root in spitsbergen they could grow practically anywhere. environmental destruction and pollution forces people to find creative solutions to sustain the traditional livelihood and indigenous fishing community in mumbai came up with a simple but effective idea by creating small pools of clean water for fish to breed unhindered in the city's mos

the norwegian islander spitzbergen in the arctic circle is the back of beyond the frigid climate isn't ideal for plants but a man from sunny florida did the impossible and started growing fresh produce there . this is not a u.f.o. it's a greenhouse inside it drops to minus 20 degrees celsius during the dark polar night only when the polar day begins will benjamin vidmar see things growing here we have some days you know that they're in the midnight sun there's sun in theory 24 hours a day so it just moves around in the sky and it can get like $2530.00 degrees in here i really like to do some root vegetables carrots potatoes would be nice. finally a bit of sunlight and darkness prevails for months in winter it's minus $25.00 degrees celsius the tundra here is permanently frozen there are more polar bears and fall apart than people of all places benjamin did mark gross food here the world's northernmost settlement. this one i think looks good too and then this 13 stuart the 4th one is on the table so it's an experiment together with his colleague benjamin works in what they call their la