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03 Dickson Despommier - The Advantages of Vertical Farms

1/22/2016

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Dr. Dickson Despommier is a professor of Microbiology and Public Health at Columbia University, and the author of The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century.
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In this episode, Dickson describes the advantages of the vertical farms concept, how the concept is already manifested in the real world, and how vertical farms would integrate into a vertical city.

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"A vertical farm is simply a two-story greenhouse." - Dickson Despommier
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Show Notes:
  • What is a vertical farm?
  • The problems facing vertical farming
  • The advantages of vertical farming and why they are building them around the world right now
  • How vertical farming increases the yield of crops
  • The advantages of having a vertical farm within the city limits
  • How the vertical farms concept was born
  • The health risks that vertical farms help address
  • How his graduate students helped him come up with the idea of vertical farms
  • About the vertical farms located in Japan that already existed when he wrote his book
  • The size of the largest vertical farm that is in existence today

"You can situate a vertical farm in an office building." - Dickson Despommier

  • Why most of the vertical farms today are doing veggies instead of grain crops
  • How the LED lighting industry has changed the vertical farm
  • What are aeroponics?
  • What it will take for the vertical farming movement to spread throughout the world
  • The work being done in the academic sector about vertical farming
  • Why there are some laws that ban vertical farming in certain cities
  • The different kinds of pollution that are changing our world, and how we can reverse the trends

Links Mentioned:
  • Ready more about Dickson on Wikipedia
  • This Week in Virology podcast
  • This Week in Parasitism podcast
  • Urban Agriculture podcast
  • Dr. Despommier's book The Vertical Farm: Feeding The World in the 21st Century
  • Plant Chicago (a vertical farm)
  • FarmedHere vertical farm
  • Green Spirit vertical farms
  • Connect with Dickson Despommier:
    • Twitter | Website

"Aeroponics uses 95% less water than outdoor farming, and it all can be reused." - Dickson Despommier
7 Comments
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7/19/2016 03:35:59 pm


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7/19/2016 03:36:17 pm


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7/19/2016 03:36:42 pm


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7/19/2016 03:36:51 pm


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7/19/2016 03:37:25 pm


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7/19/2016 03:37:54 pm


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