Building Up: Vertical Farms

Picture a skyscraper filled with greenhouses and hanging plants, that’s precisely Professor Dickson Despommier’s plan ?a vertical farm, for a world that is rapidly running out of space to grow food.

Professor Dickson Despommier worked with his students at Columbia University to come up with an innovative way to make cities more sustainable. They came up with the vertical farm  ? a skyscraper of greenhouses. LOE’s Steve Curwood talks with Despommier about how vertical farms could help solve environmental problems associated with agriculture.