Sentences with phrase «build vertical farms»

But not if Croatian Architects UPI2M have their way; They propose building vertical farms and biofuel factories on top of existing gas stations, using algae and bamboo grown on top to fuel up cars below.

Not exact matches

Metropolis Farms» technology is built so people don't need a bachelor's or master's degree to build their own vertical farm.

Metropolis Farms is building the infrastructure for 10 vertical farms to expand its operaFarms is building the infrastructure for 10 vertical farms to expand its operafarms to expand its operation.

Part of the slowdown in our schedule is because several of us are working hard at building the GreenSpace permaculture center, specializing in fresh microgreens with indoor vertical farming.

STEAM projects — such as redesigning a city or building a model of a vertical farm — allow for scientific inquiry, mathematical application, artistic exploration, and hands - on discovery.

The book explores and examines numerous innovations from vertical farming in the ocean (long ladders of kelp and crops of oysters and mussels tended and harvested in the depths of the ocean) to biomimicry (buildings that resemble growing organisms).

Maybe we will live in towering skyscrapers in which we can reach out and pluck a tomato off the side of the building, thanks to vertical farming.

Surely it makes more sense to fix the horizontal farm before we build the vertical.

With 54 percent of the world's population residing in urban areas — expected to increase to about 66 percent by 2050, according to the 2014 Revision of World Urbanization Prospect — vertical farming projects strive to expand production on and in buildings and vertical structures.

Windowfarms let you garden - appropriately enough - in your windows Whereas the majority of vertical farming concepts and projects featured in Gizmag over the years have either been huge dedicated structures or add - ons to existing buildings, the Windowfarms system downsizes and personalizes veggie growing by placing an indoor farm in the window.

Whereas the majority of vertical farming concepts and projects featured in Gizmag over the years have either been huge dedicated structures or add - ons to existing buildings, the Windowfarms system downsizes and personalizes veggie growing by placing an indoor farm in the window.

A vertical farm must be able to produce enough food to cover the cost of its day to day operations and, ultimately, the capital cost of the building's construction (or renovation).

Adam Stein once wrote dismissively of vertical farming: «the notion of spending «hundreds of millions» of dollars to build weird, poorly sited temples of food production in areas much better suited to dense, green residential and retail space...

Creating more urban farms and more food production centers closer to where the market is, whether they are traditional outdoor growing areas, rooftop farms, indoor hydroponic and aquaponics systems, vertical farms, or vacant lot gardens, can go a long way toward building a more resilient local food system and reducing the ecological footprint of our diets.

Weber Thompson has shown us how to integrate food production into building facades as a simpler, better way of doing vertical farming.

In fact, Graff has designed a vertical farm project that is an arcology, or a» a web of symbiotic resource flow relationships that enable the building to operate with a self - sufficiency similar to that of ecological systems.»

So we have a complete system: The building takes waste from the residents, converts it to methane to run the generators that run the farm, giving back fertilizer for the rooftop allotment gardens and food from the vertical farm portion.

That's not very efficient, and if it came to having massive food shortages in the future, I think that phasing in a more vegetarian diet could help solve that problem - along with many other problems related to the consumption of meat - with more ease than trying to build enough of these vertical farms to feed all these billions of people and the dozens of billions of animals they would eat.

BitFerry aim to build one of the largest farm in Europe, with deep vertical supply chain integration.