Urban Agriculture

Dickson travels to indoor farm Gotham Greens in Brooklyn, New York to speak with Co-founder and CEO Viraj Puri.

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Viraj Puri

• Gotham Greens

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Daniel Podmirseg

Daniel joins Dickson and Vincent to talk about the Vertical Farm Institute, which provides advice and planning on the design and construction of indoor farms.

• Vertical Farm Institute
• Daniel's thesis, 'Up'
• Letters read on Urban Agriculture 28

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson provides an update on progress towards establishing long-term, sustainable, local, safe food systems based on indoor farming.

• Pumpkin genome sequenced (SciDaily)
• The Next Big Thing(s)
• Seeds and Chips
• A Farm Grows in the City (WSJ)
• Plenty
• Square Roots
• Infarm
• Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center (Wikipedia)
• Letters read on Urban Agriculture 27

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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Robert Colangelo

Dickson and Vincent speak with Robert Colangelo, founding farmer and CEO of Green Sense Farms, the world's largest commercial indoor vertical farm. 

• Green Sense Farms
• Green Sense Radio
• Letters read on Urban Agriculture 26

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Dickson defines the term 'vertical farm': a high-tech greenhouse that is stacked on top of itself, transforming it into a multi-story growing space.

• GreenTech Amsterdam
• The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
• Rewilding the World by Caroline Fraser
• Carbon farming

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Guest: Joel Cuello

Dickson and Vincent speak with Professor Joel Cuello about his work on engineering of sustainable biological and agricultural innovations, including bioregenerative space life support, crop hydroponics, plant tissue culture, micropropagation, and industrial mass production of algae and plant cell and microbial cultures.

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• Controlled environment agriculture
• World without walls (pdf)
• 10 tips for engineering students
• Realizing algal biofuels full potential
• Image credit

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Guest: Gene Giacomelli

Dickson and Vincent speak with Professor Gene Giacomelli about his work on controlled environment plant production systems research, design, development and applications.

• Controlled environment agriculture
• Biometry and biosystems informatics
• Food, bioproducts, and renewable energy
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Guest: Clare Miflin

Dickson and Vincent speak with architect Clare Miflin about biomimicry - innovation inspired by nature - and environmentally sound building practices. 

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Guest: Gregory Kiss

Dickson and Vincent speak with architect Gregory Kiss about how to build self-sustaining urban buildings.

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Guests: Ed Horton and Danielle Horton

Dickson and Vincent speak with Ed and Danielle Horton from Urban Produce, which uses a high-density vertical indoor growing system which they hope to implement all over the world.

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