An eco-friendly architectural concept for cultivating food within skyscrapers.
Dickson Despommier, a microbiologist and professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University, is credited with popularizing the concept of vertical farming.
It is estimated that over the next four decades, our population will increase by 3 billion people and that 80% of us will be living in cities
Many scientists are concerned that the amount of land required to feed us in the future will not be available nor will it be economically or environmentally sustainable
Global warming and geological events will continue to create extreme weather conditions causing frost, floods, droughts, hailstorms, wildfires and torrential rainfalls that will severely affect the economics and sustainability of our food supply.
India has the world’s second largest population and is experiencing extreme changes in temperatures and rainfall patterns.
It is predicted that within this century, India will lose 30% of its agricultural production.
Currently, seventy-percent of available freshwater is used for agricultural irrigation, which subsequently contaminates our diminishing supply of fresh water with pesticides and herbicides
Transporting food thousands of miles is also becoming increasingly impractical and unsustainable because of the rising costs of gasoline and diesel fuel.
In the United States, it is estimated that twenty-percent of all fossil fuel consumption is used for agriculture.
We have no other option but to start vertical farming wherever possible.
Vertical farming is an eco-friendly architectural concept for cultivating food within skyscrapers.
It uses green inventions and green technologies related to hydroponics, aeroponics and agua-farming to economically produce food for personal and communal consumption.
Vertical farming stacks and grows plants “vertically” in skyscrappers and uses mineral enriched water instead of soil.
It also uses the recycling concept of aquaponics where fish are cultivated in tanks and their waste provides nutrients for edible plants that reciprocate by filtering the water for the fish.
Advances in green inventions are making vertical farming a reality.
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