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
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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.
 
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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.
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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. 
Links for this episode
Green Sense Farms
Green Sense Radio
Letters read on Urban Agriculture 26
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Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello
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.
 
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GreenTech Amsterdam
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
Rewilding the World by Caroline Fraser
Carbon farming
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