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.
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.
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
Show Notes:
"You can situate a vertical farm in an office building." - Dickson Despommier
Links Mentioned:
"Aeroponics uses 95% less water than outdoor farming, and it all can be reused." - Dickson Despommier
- 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:
"Aeroponics uses 95% less water than outdoor farming, and it all can be reused." - Dickson Despommier