These vertical farming designs are one thing I think of when I think industrial organic. For this climate we would need a sprawling Frank Lloyd Wright type of design, with greenhouses in rotation. If they can grow pineapples at Heligan...
The same principle applied on a smaller scale for the backyard gardener, and community gardens? Imagine the LU Garden taller than the Hangar.
Oddly, I didn't see any of this sort of thing in the scenes of Firefly.
Further Reading:
The Vertical Farm:
Reducing the impact of agriculture on ecosystem functions and services
An essay by Dickson Despommier
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
60 Haven Ave, rm. 100
New York, New York 10032
ddd1@columbia.edu
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Futuristic Farming
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