Sep 26, 2010 3:17 AM

Dead big-box stores as aquaponics factories

*I'll believe this Californian scheme when I see it.

*In the meantime, though, as architecture-fiction, this notion pegs the meter for Favela Chic. Out with the WalMart shoppers, in with the schools of tilapia.

http://www.grist.org/article/food-the-new-agtivist-gene-fredericks-is-thinking-inside-the-citys-bi/

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