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 what there are lots of ...

The benefits are extensive, the technology is powerful and the results are delicious. Dickson Despommier is a professor of public health in environmental health sciences at Columbia University and has ...

A genetically impoverished biosphere, as Dickson Despommier illustrates, would rob us of potential armor that we may deeply regret losing; preserving diversity benefits all species, including humans.

No modesty, no hesitation. Only bold plans to lead and not to follow. Dickson Despommier’s Vertical Farm Project (he wants to create hi-tech indoor farms in towers in the hearts of cities) has a ...

One potential solution: more innovative designs. For ecologist Dickson Despommier that means vertical farming, cultivating fruits and vegetables under controlled settings within tall buildings ...

Eager to learn more, he quickly ordered the book The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century by Columbia ...

To solve this problem Dickson Despommier and his students at Columbia University in New York have taken up an old idea: building upwards when space is running out in the city. It is the idea of the ...

Flash forward to 1999. In a class led by Dr. Dickson Despommier at Columbia University, the modern vertical farm was conceptualized when the class sought solutions to feeding New York City using ...

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This Week in Virology A weekly netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick. Professors Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler and science writer Alan Dove and ...