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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
TEDxWindyCity with Dickson Despommier -- The Vertical Farm
If you haven't read The Vertical Farm by Dickson Despommier yet, it's brings you through the history of food development, our current food supply, basics in agricultural farming and how it has environmentally impacted our ecosystems through the years. Mostly, it's a good read to fill in that gap of environmental knowledge you might have missed out on. It will enlighten you on ideas of food + technology growing vertically, population growth and limited space, urban agriculture, growing hydroponically and aquaponically. Dr. Despommier will inspire you through the empowering concept of vertical farming and sustainable systems for our future generations. Here's a snippet:
"In the end, if and when our time on this planet has run its course, the human species will be judged not by the number of billionaires it has produced, or even by the exquisite art it has created over the entire span of its evolutionary history. Rather, it will be evaluated on how well it looked after its own kind and the rest of the life forms on which it was wholly dependent. Was the human culture based on equal sharing of resources in which every individual got enough water and food to live an adequately healthy life, or was it a species that encourages greed and hoarding of resources for one group or country at the expense of others? We must answer this question in advance if we are to change from a destructive force of nature into one that has learned the true value of symbiosis. Learning how to provide for ourselves in every way -- including producing food -- in ways that do not encroach on the right of others, such as the hardwood forest, will test our ability to think through the problem until we have solved it. I believe we can" (Despommier, 102).
The Vertical Farm: Feeding The World in the 21st Century
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