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A Library Journal Best Book of 2010
“A world-changing innovation whose time has come. The visionary book provides a blueprint for securing the world’s food supply and at the same time solving some of the gravest environmental crises facing us today.”–Sting
Imagine a world where every city has its own local food source grown in the safest way conceivable, 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 – believe the world of the vertical farm. When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve The usa’s food, water, and energy crises, he didn’t just think big – he thought up. In The Vertical Farm, he passionately explains the fantastic have an effect on of urban agriculture and how it’ll change the face of this planet for future generations. With this groundbreaking book, “Despommier has quickly change into the central figure in what is usually a around the world revolution.” (Scientific American).