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The updated tenth anniversary edition, with a new afterword by Gene A. Giacomelli!
“The vertical farm is a world-changing innovation whose time has come. Dickson Despommier’s visionary book provides a blueprint for securing the world’s food supply and at the same time solving one of the vital gravest environmental crises facing us today.” –Sting
Imagine a world where every town has their own local food source, grown in the safest way conceivable, where no drop of water or particle of light is wasted, and where a simple elevator ride can transport you to nature’s grocery store – consider the world of the vertical farm.
When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve The usa’s food, water, and energy crises, he didn’t just think big – he thought up. Despommier’s stroke of genius, the vertical farm, has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Despommier explains how the vertical farm will have an out of this world affect on changing the face of this planet for future generations.
Despommier takes readers on an out of this world journey inside the vertical farm, buildings filled with fruit and veggies that will provide local food sources for entire cities.
Vertical farms will allow us to:
– Grow food 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
– Protect crops from unpredictable and harmful weather
– Re-use water collected from the indoor environment
– Provide jobs for residents
– Eliminate use of pesticides, fertilizers, or herbicides
– Drastically reduce dependence on fossil fuels
– Prevent crop loss because of shipping or storage
– Stop agricultural runoff
Vertical farms can be built in abandoned buildings and on deserted lots, transforming our cities into urban landscapes which will provide fresh food grown and harvested just around the corner. Possibly the most important aspect of vertical farms is that they are able to built by nations with little or no arable land, transforming nations which are currently unable to farm into top food producers.
In the tradition of the bestselling The World Without Us, The Vertical Farm is a completely original landmark work destined to grow to be an instant classic.
With a Foreword by Majora Carter.
