Sting: Vertical Farm Film Planned

treehugger.com:

The performer [Sting] is producing a film about vertical farming, according to the Deadline blog, starting with documenting the first one to be planted in the U.S.

Read the whole story: treehugger.com

Comments

[Aldous Huxley]

12:23 AM on 06/23/2010

forget sting,

show photos of his wife-----------

[techcafe]

11:04 AM on 06/22/2010

The Vertical Farm
http://www.verticalfarm.com/

"Despite the obvious advantage of not having to hunt or scavenge for our next meal, farming has led to new health hazards by creating ecotones between the natural world and our cultivated fields. As the result, transmission rates of numerous infectious disease agents have dramatically increased- influenza, rabies, yellow fever, dengue fever, malaria, trypanosomiasis, hookworm, schistosomiasis – and today these agents emerge and re-emerge with devastating regularity at the tropical and sub-tropical agricultural interface. Modern agriculture employs a multitude of chemical products, and exposure to toxic levels of some classes of agrochemicals (pesticides, fungicides) have created other significant health risks that are only now being sorted out by epidemiologists and toxicologists. As if that were no enough to be concerned about, it is predicted that over the next 50 years, the human population is expected to rise to at least 8.6 billion, requiring an additional 109 hectares to feed them using current technologies, or roughly the size of Brazil. That quantity of additional arable land is simply not available. Without an alternative strategy for dealing with just this one problem, social chaos will surely replace orderly behavior in most over-crowded countries."

read more:
http://www.verticalfarm.com/essay_print.htm

[Mahi Joe]

10:49 AM on 06/22/2010

I find this line in the article to be a bit amusing.

"Also, last Friday, Mayor Richard M. Daley announced he's supporting plans to establish a vertical farm in Chicago"

With all the traffic in the city I wonder if those plants might absorb some of that pollution.

[techcafe]

11:00 AM on 06/22/2010

"With all the traffic in the city I wonder if those plants might absorb some of that pollution."

well plants DO absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, so probably, yeah

[Mahi Joe]

11:07 AM on 06/22/2010

I was thinking more along the lines of carbon monoxide.

[smile13]

10:38 AM on 06/22/2010

Thanks Sting. Help wake up the masses!!!

[abbienormal]

03:28 PM on 06/23/2010

Yes. It is a great idea that deserves more attention.

[T Pile]

03:52 AM on 06/22/2010

These look fascinating, but I'm sure a thousand people will tell us a thousand reasons why they're impossible and that we shall all die. That is the way these usually go.

I did see an interesting point that most plants don't use most of the sunlight they get, and I know there are also such things as fiber-optic light pipes. I don't think it would make sense to put these in the inner city, though. At least not if it's built up.