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Despommier: “Vertical Farms Are Key to Eco-Urbanization”
Dickson Despommier, an advocate for vertical farming, asked “What if cities could function like an ecosystem?”, at the TED Mid Atlantic conference. Right now, cities are like a “black box, all these inputs go in and then out come wastes, which have to be removed.” In addition, current agriculture practices, which require the... [read more]
Vertical Farming in British Columbia Time Magazine names...
Vertical Farming in British Columbia Time Magazine names Valcent’s Vertical Farming Technology one of Top 50 Best Innovations of 2009 — City Farmer NewsLink to original post [read more]
Rotating Hydroponic Vertical Farming
Based out of El Paso, Texas, a company called Valcent has been working on a vertical farming system called VertiCrop that they believe is even better and more cost-effective than traditional field agriculture because the system has produced “20 times the normal production volume and only requires 5% of the average water used in... [read more]
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