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Imagine a world where every town has its own local food source, grown in the safest way possible, where no drop of water or particle of light is wasted, and where a simple elevator ride can transport you to nature's grocery store - imagine the world of the vertical farm.When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thought up. Despommier's stroke of genius, the vertical farm, has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. These farms, grown inside skyscrapers, would provide solutions to many of the serious problems we currently face, including: -Allowing year-round crop production -Providing food to areas currently lacking arable land -Immunity to weather-related crop failure -Re-use of water collected by de-humidification of the indoor environment -New employment opportunities -No use of pesticides, fertilizers, or herbicides -Drastically reduced dependence on fossil fuels -No crop loss due to shipping or storage -No agricultural runoff

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<p> A captivating argument that will intrigue general readers and give policymakers and investors much to ponder. -- Kirkus Reviews <p> A visionary known the world over, Despommier believes that the 'vertical farm is the keystone enterprise for establishing an urban-based ecosystem' and for 'restoring balance between our lives and the rest of nature. -- Booklist (starred) <p> Despommier has quickly become the central figure in what could be a worldwide revolution. - Scientific American <p> Nobody has ever dreamed as big as Dr. Dickson Despommier. -- New York Magazine <p> Despommier's . . . ingenious idea . . . could ultimately ease the world's food, water, and energy crises. -- The Huffington Post Dickson Despommier is a futurist, an architect, and an intellectual in the same vein as Leonardo da Vinci, I. M. Pei, and Buckminster Fuller. Vertical farms will be remembered as one of the preeminent breakthroughs of the early 21st century, and Despommier will be remembered as the

<p>&#8220;A captivating argument that will intrigue general readers and give policymakers and investors much to ponder.&#8221;&#160;-- Kirkus Reviews <p>&#8220;A visionary known the world over, Despommier believes that the &#8216;vertical farm is the keystone enterprise for establishing an urban-based ecosystem&#8217; and for &#8216;restoring balance between our lives and the rest of nature. -- Booklist (starred) <p>&#8220;Despommier has quickly become the central figure in what could be a worldwide revolution.&#8221; &#8211; Scientific American <p>&#8220;Nobody has ever dreamed as big as Dr. Dickson Despommier.&#8221; -- New York Magazine <p>&#8220;Despommier&#8217;s . . . ingenious idea . . . could ultimately ease the world&#8217;s food, water, and energy crises.&#8221; -- The Huffington Post &#8220;Dickson Despommier is a futurist, an architect, and an intellectual in the same vein as Leonardo da Vinci, I. M. Pei, and Buckminster Fuller. Vertical farms will be remembered as one

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Dr Dickson Despommier spent thirty eight years as a professor of microbiology and public health in environmental health sciences at Columbia. His work on vertical farms has been featured on such top national media as BBC, French National television, CNN, The Colbert Report and The Tonight Show, as well as in full-length articles in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Scientific American, and The Washington Post. He recently spoke at the TED Conference, Pop!Tech and the World Science Festival and has been invited by the governments of China, India, Mexico, Jordan, Brazil, Canada, and Korea to work on environmental problems.

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