Dec
12
Vertical Farming: Apple Store Meets Greenhouse Meets Skyscraper
For more than a decade, Columbia University professor Dickson Despommier has argued that agriculture needs to expand upwards, not outwards. Forget the noble farmer in his fields; enter the 30-story greenhouse running on solar energy and urban wastewater, churning out food year-round.
Once seen as an amusing novelty, Despommier’s vertical farms went mainstream in 2007, garnering widespread press attention and investor interest. No wonder: by 2050, Earth’s population will swell…
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