from a professor at Colombia University by the name of Dr. Dickson Despommier. People see this as something that might cost a lot of money and will provide no output the short run. Is Vertical farming for the bad or the good? I believe that vertical farms would be very beneficial to any community. Dr. Dickson Despommier is the biggest proponent of Vertical Farming and is also an ecology professor at Colombia University. Dr. Dickson Despommier describes his idea “A Vertical farm, many stories high, will
cloning, humans have many ideas for the future. One fairly new idea is vertical farming. Vertical farming is a very promising idea, which may take off in the near future; however, the benefits currently do not outweigh the disadvantages. Dickson D. Despommier is a microbiologist, ecologist, and Professor of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University. In Despommier’s book, The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century, vertical farming is the idea of farming
First thought up of by Dr. Dickson Despommier and his graduating class from Columbia when Dr. Dickson Despommier challenged his class to create a theoretical project that would lead to sustainability in the city. The students decided that they would try to feed the entire city of New York by growing food on the rooftops of the city. After doing the math they found that using the best crop, a rice, would only feed around two percent of the population. Dr. Dickson Despommier saw potential in this idea
time and 80% percent of the usable lands for raising crops will be in use . Vertical farming is one the ideas to move forward towards a healthier and more manageable future for all the human, as well as wildlife and our environment. “Ecologist Dickson Despommier argues that vertical farming is legitimate
Having lived in rural America all of my nearly twenty-two years in life I take pleasure in sitting down to dinner and knowing exactly where the food I am about to partake in came from and am hopeful that we continue to produce enough to feed ourselves. The steak was from an Angus steer fed out on our farm, the potatoes and corn a family friend grew in his garden, and the apples in dessert are from a local orchard. Granted, not everything I put in my mouth comes from a source that I have direct contact
processes are active around the world all the time. There are four stages of water erosion: (1) raindrop or splash erosion, (2) sheet erosion, (3) rill erosion, and (4) gully erosion ("Soil erosion... ... middle of paper ... ....php?id=1 Dickson, Despommier. (2009). The Rise of vertical farms. Scientific American, 301(5). Dingfelder, Jackie. (2010). Protecting and restoring america's waterways. FDCH Congressional Testimony. Do changes in connectivity explain desertification?. Bioscience, 59(3)
Imagine a disease free world, overcoming diseases that we don’t currently have a cure for, or having an increased life span for those who can’t get enough of life. Or how about changing the food available now into food that won’t spoil so fast, more of it being accessible so it won’t cost so much, or maybe using fewer chemicals and herbicides on our plants because they are genetically altered so that bugs won’t bother them. These are all things that are achievable with genetic engineering. Many