Catching up with a great article and slideshow about vertical farming and produce-friendly urban planning.
"Dickson Despommier, a professor of public health at Columbia University, hopes to make these zucchini-in-the-sky visions a reality. Dr. Despommier’s pet project is the “vertical farm,” a concept he created in 1999 with graduate students in his class on medical ecology, the study of how the environment and human health interact."
My favorite argument for vertical farming on his website - "We cannot go to the moon, Mars, or beyond without first learning to farm indoors on." The website is also a multi-sourced portal for designs and project submissions from all over the world. Here's one actually conceived for the Gowanus area.
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