vue - 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. What is TEDx? In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxWINDYCITY, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDxWINDYCITY event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized. This independent TEDx event is operated under license from TED.
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His idea is based on fear. Not on interconnectedness and sharing.
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Anyone who wants to understand why we excel in anti-nature behavior needs to read Carlos Castaneda - The Active Side of Infinity (Chapter - Mud Shadows).
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Amazing that he talked about Newark vertical farming in 2010 and today in 2016 Aero Farms has converted 2 abandoned buildings into productive and probably profitable vertical farms. Goldman Sachs is an investor
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Its crazy that the Newark vertical farm is actually open now! Thank Dr.Despommier for making it possible.
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No need for artificial lighting, if rotation is used strategically synched with the Suns movement.
Rotate the farms as needed to have full sun exposure and artificial lighting is eliminated. -
Holy shit it's coach POP!
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MORON
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The economics of your proposal are dubious when considering the cost and availability of urban real estate vs rural. And your seeming assumption that all farming practices which are performed outdoor are harmful to our environment and not sustainable are very insulting to a farmer such as myself. However, where I feel you are bang on is the notion to recycle and reuse the incredible amount of nutrients we import into condensed areas with little in the way of a plan for incorporating them back into the system from which they were removed. Great strides are being taken in rural areas to deal with problems of over fertilization, to match plant nutritional requirements with nutrient applications. Our planets nutrients are for the most part a finite resource which need to be recycled to stay balanced. Creating an urban recapture is a huge part of the link. Farming in skyscrapers, on the other hand, is going to take a lot more selling.
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Does anyone else think he kinda looks like the Spurs coach Gregg Popovich? Only smarter and nicer lol
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Sounds like a good idea ... but:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/parking-lot-greenhouse-goes-bankrupt-in-vancouver-1.2510245 -
anks for such an inspiring speech, lecture...
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13:21 -- The lecturer mentions "EuroFresh Farms" as a "good example" of food being produced indoors. I did a little searching, and unfortunately they declared bankruptcy twice, most recently in early 2013, allegedly due to a slump in tomato prices. So I have to wonder if these alternative farming methods are really economically feasible.
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What an absolutely fantastic TedX talk by the creative inventor of the Vertical Farm concept. There is a whole lot of potential to help Humanity continue to move on in an ever improving way!
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There is currently a vertical farm in Singapore that sell picked the same day produce that is just 30% above imports from China. For a start up technology that is a fairly impressive fete. One issue is that like renewable energy it is a direct threat to an established industry and does not provide a sure market share for anyone investing at this point. It will take time to come along but it will start in places where the is almost not land to grow food and an expanding economy.
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Umm it does make sense, it would save land to farm, and leave the earth to repair itself, I don't think it would be very expensive because it already costs money to create deforestation and build greenhouses etc.. But what this guy failed to say, is that the real unsustainable way of eating, is eating animal products, they use 70% of all agricultural land and obviously most of the water, (not to mention the pollution of water from farming animals), because killing 60 billions land animals per year, means feeding 60 billions land animal every year, and yeah sure chickens eat less, but cows, bulls, pigs, and goats eat more!... In fact it is so unsustainable that with what the UK produces of grain an other plant based food to feed animals, we could feed almost all hungry children in Africa... And yes I am saying that this idea is good, but the real way to protect the environment is to eat a full plant based diet... And yes all the nutrients we need we find them in plant based... And also feeding 10 billions people in 50 years time will take less land than feeding 70 billions land animals in 50 years time, period.
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Lovely idea, but we need to make sure the bees and other pollinating insects are still around by the time we get to it :)
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We must make it real! We can!
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"We have chosen to live in cities"
Um, I think this guy needs to do some research in to the US during the 1870's. The movement to cities was not very voluntary... -
Just use money for good dont get rid of it..
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People who see the zeitgeist movement should also know about the venus project.
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