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May12

Written by:host
5/12/2009 3:36 PM 

Interview with Dickson Despommier, Professor, Columbia University  

May 11, New York

Are there vertical farms in practice now, or are they all in the concept / design phase? No, there are no vertical farms in existence as we speak. This is now April 2009, but there are lots of high-tech greenhouses where massive amounts of produce are being raised. The best one I can think of is called Eurofresh. It's in the middle of the Arizona desert and it's 318 acres' worth of indoor farming in a place, which ecologically speaking you, could never farm...more

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