Lynn King lives in Shanghai where this interview takes place. In Shanghai, Lynn is helping to spark an ecologically-sourced local food movement. In this interview, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of local food and how they might play into the creation of vertical cities, and how we might promote thriving cultures within a vertical city.
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"Cities create a lot of pollution and can be part of the problem, but they can also be the solution." - Lynn King
Show Notes:
- The projects in sustainable food safety and food security she is working on in Shanghai
- How her aquaponics project works
- Some advantages to growing vegetables locally
- How eating with the seasons reduces our dependence on fossil fuels
- How agriculture is one of the major contributors to pollution in the world
- How vertical farming would work in a vertical city
- What the future of ecological farms are
"We can’t only depend on soil-based farming anymore - we have to have backup." - Lynn King
- How the mindset of people needs to change in order to create a culture for a vertical city
- How food develops a vertical city culture
- How pollutants in the soil get into the food that we eat
- How you would choose the first people to move into a vertical city
- How travel leads to cross-cultural training
- Why you should support the eco-farmers in your community
Links Mentioned:
- Our interview with Dickson Despommier
- Learn more about Eco Villages
- Learn more about Lynn King
- Watch a video about the bell experiment mentioned in this episode
"Everyone should support their local farmer - they aren't doing it for the money." - Lynn King