{"id":612,"date":"2007-06-19T11:42:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T15:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=612"},"modified":"2007-06-19T19:11:29","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T23:11:29","slug":"vertical-farming-in-the-big-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2007\/06\/vertical-farming-in-the-big-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Vertical farming in the big Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/vertical_farm.jpg\" alt=\"Vertical farm\" class=\"right\" \/>Vertical farming&#8230;imagine it&#8230;a 30 or 40 storey building of mostly windows topped off by a solar panel that sustainably harvests energy to run the irrigation system that sustainably harvests water from naturally occurring rain.  Indoor fields planted with crops, or with an environment suitable for raising small herds of livestock.  And all of this done in the middle of New York city.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what the BBC asks us to imagine <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/6752795.stm\">in this article<\/a> reporting on the ideas of Columbia University Professor Dickson Despommier.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m all for greenhouses, which is what it sounds to me like this is, I can&#8217;t help but think that we&#8217;re mere decades away from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0067756\/plotsummary\">Silent Running<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Some days I hope I&#8217;m not around to see it when humanity&#8217;s general tendecy to Do Stupid Things comes back to bite it in the ass.  This is one of those days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vertical farming&#8230;imagine it&#8230;a 30 or 40 storey building of mostly windows topped off by a solar panel that sustainably harvests energy to run the irrigation system that sustainably harvests water from naturally occurring rain. Indoor fields planted with crops, or with an environment suitable for raising small herds of livestock. And all of this done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}