TEDxWindyCity -- Dickson Despommier -- The Vertical Farm

Dickson talks about Vertical Farming: A 21st century hunger and conservation solution that promises, "urban renewal, sustainable production of a safe and varied food supply (year-round crop production), and the eventual repair of ecosystems that have been sacrificed for horizontal farming."

Dickson Despommier is the Emeritus Professor of Public Health and Microbiology at Columbia University, and the vertical farming concept grew out of a medical ecology course he taught in 1999. Articles about the subject have been published in The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Popular Science, Scientific American and Maxim. In October 2010, his first book on the subject, The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century, was published. More can be learned through his website, verticalfarm.com.



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[koolagoo]

Here is a great example how people get excited and work on ideas that will improve everyones lifes without any money incentive. Check out the Zeitgeist movement, and lets finally make this reality - feed the whole wide world!

[PaulCarnage]

Get rid of the monetary system (money) and this will be extremely possible.

[Harvidz]

@MrGamestop101 watch us fix it in 100 years.

[PaulCarnage]

@Sharangir LOL!. Damn straight(:

[Sharangir]

@PaulCarnage Damn dirty communists and their hippy ideas! How dare they want to make the world a better place!

[Alexfantastico26]

This gives me hope, and that's something we all need right now

[jcng5]

would this be cost effective?



[MrGamestop101]

Nature has worked for 14 billion years and we We're stupid enough to believe that are system developed in 10000 years is better. Tsk tsk.

[bakkenkegan]

the talk starts at 00:47

[efortune357]

@curingaging00 automation moves forward whether we like it or not. This has been happening for decades in our current system. Difference is in this system people become unemployed. In a resource based economy using automation means more freedom. Google " Foxconn to replace workers with 1 million robots in 3 years " stories like this one will continue to happen in order for companies to compete. It seems unemployment will continue to rise. It's already happening in this system.