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What smarter cities need isn't a local food movement, but a hyperlocal food system, a new infrastructure for a new, local and literally green industry
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Jack MasonIBM Global Business Services
http://traderjanki.wordpress.com/page/21/
http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/food_technology/ideas/
Where
http://inhabitat.com/smarter-cities-vertical-farming-could-ease-worlds-agricultural-woes/
How
http://www.plantlab.nl
Who
80 Million Millennials
http://www.nightclub.com/bar-management/consumer-trends/the-millennial-moment
coFarm
coFarm• commercial• cooperative• co-created
Gotham Greens' $1.4 million, 12,000-square-foot hydroponic rooftop farm will produce 30 tons of fruits and vegetables every year using a water-based, soil-free method of farming.
Source: Fast Company
http://www.verticalfarm.com
"The Living Skyscraper: Farming the
Urban Skyline" by Blake Kurasek
http://www.foodandtechconnect.com
…a non-technical, easy-to-learn and inexpensive-to-implement vegetable farming system
http://www.urbanfarming.org/
for my father-in-law Yale Arkel, MD
1935-2011