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Vertical farms and future cities
Sustainability a big theme at the World Science Festival |
Maywa Montenegro |
02 Jun 2008 |
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| What do vertical farms, green roofs, soft cars, breathing walls, and Dongtan, China, have in common? They were all subjects of discussion at Friday's Future Cities event in New York City, part of the four-day 2008 World Science Festival. To a packed house, Columbia University microbiologist Dickson Despommier described his vision for feeding the planet's burgeoning, and increasingly urban, population. The vertical farm takes agriculture and stacks it into the tie ... |
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| Topics: food, innovation, local food, placemaking, tech, urban planning (all these topics) |
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