The Vertical Farm: A Keystone Concept for the the Ecocity : Dickson Despommier at TEDxWarwick 2013
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- Опубликовано: 8 апр 2013
- Dr. Dickson Despommier was born in New Orleans in 1940, and grew up in California before moving to the New York area, where he now lives and works. He has a PhD in microbiology from the University of Notre Dame. For 27 years, he has conducted laboratory-based biomedical research at Columbia University with NIH-sponsored support. He is now an emeritus professor at Columbia University and adjunct professor at Fordham University.
At present, Dr. Despommier is engaged in a project with the mission to produce significant amounts of food crops in tall buildings situated in densely populated urban centers. This initiative has grown in acceptance over the last few years to the point of stimulating planners and developers around the world to incorporate them into their vision for the future city. To date, there are vertical farms up and running in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Seattle, and Chicago, with many more in the planning stage. It is his hope that vertical farming will become commonplace throughout the built environment on a global scale.
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Incredible!
He's fabulous. We need this kind of info to go VIRAL
good presentation
He's like the Vertical Farm version of Gregg Popovich. A charismatic, wise, old man.
I had that exact thought myself, love Pop
This will require XL pipelines from the oceans, connected to massive desalination plants.
It will have to have a constant flow of fresh water to every city and town, even in the desert regions.
What if I said we don’t need to build anymore greenhouse?
4:00 It seems like Brazil will give up part of their country for the next three billion. It would be great if they would say no, that would make a challenge and some incentive to adapt instead of directly filling this gap by giving up valuable rain forests away for primarily financial gain.
There is more to it Tan what he says. I wonder what it is. He spends more time leading up to it than what it is just a stack of high tech greenhouses.
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Yeah, okay.
Meantime, please read up a bit on the issue of tipping points, and why all the climate scientists - especially those that write books - are writing (and talking) about "runaway" climate change. What exactly does that mean?
Hint: It has a bit to do with "exponential" growth (which is related to maths, but still...)
Main point: Sometimes we don't notice a car when it first starts to move very slowly. We're at that stage now. If the car gets rolling down hill though it's harder to stop.
The Victory Gardens in WW2 produced forty percent of the produce. They did it without chemicals or any of the high tech junk. Urban farms today produce 4 to 11 times the yield per acre as chemical farms and that is by growing in the ground the way nature does it. More food could be grown in the cities but they are hindered by local laws and in some places it is a crime to grow food in your own yard.
Do we really need these energy consuming high tech Factory farms? I don't think so. There are many low tech inexpensive ways to grow food in small spaces. Training vine crops like tomatoes, cucumbers and beans to grow up the walls will not only produce lots of food but cut the cost of cooling the home. Lettuce, rainbow chard and other small veggies can be grown in window boxes with edible flowers and be pleasant to look at.
There millions of acres of lawns that take a tremendous amount of time, fertilizer and fossil fuel to maintain. These can be converted to edible landscapes. Fruit and nut trees can line the streets and be planted in parks with berry bushes. Vegetables can be grown in vacant lots. These and many more things can be done and are being done in some places.
Besides producing a massive amount of nutritious food they will remove carbon from the air and store it. It will beautify the urban area creating a pleasant place to live, cut energy use and produce work for the unemployed. Can those vertical factory farms provide all those benefits? I'll you to decide.