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06:46 PM, SEPTEMBER 18, 2007
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An Off-Grid Vertical Farm for Downtown Seattle
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We face a lot of challenges, complex and sometimes overwhelming challenges. There are no Single Shot / Silver Bullet solutions out there. But, in some ways, there are solution sets that could be considered a Silver BB.
Our challenges include Peak Oil, Global Warming, clean water constraints, food supply challenges (including every increasing food miles, how far food is traveling to the dinner table), poor urban infrastructure, urban heat islands, housing challenges, etc …
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SEP 28, 2007
Bill Landis |
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I really dig this idea. You know, how much better would the world be if we had a structure like this on the side of every housing complex we had? Even if it was only used to grow spices and mushrooms, it would still be that much more space efficient in a wildly inefficient society. Good stuff man. Now how do we get someone to build them? |
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OCT 01, 2007
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Very cool … very very cool. With all the great minds on the planet, yet all the pressure not to break paradigms, it is ideas like this that cast a little ray of hope that sometimes it is not all about profits …. I hope to see it proliferate … like Bill Landis commented, “how much better would the world be if we had a structure like this on the side of every housing complex” ... ditto. |
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