http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/26533 Feel Smart Again Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:46:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/26533/comment-page-1#comment-157310 Michaela Davies Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:26:02 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/26533#comment-157310 Vertical farming is great! Looking for alternative methods to grow nutritious food is becoming increasingly important as Earth's fresh water supply dwindles, and the amount of usable farm land shrinks. Going vertical also makes sense when considering the the environmental cost of trucking food into cities from distant farms. Check out "Valcent," http://blog.valcent.net/ We're growing vertically today! Vertical farming is great! Looking for alternative methods to grow nutritious food is becoming increasingly important as Earth’s fresh water supply dwindles, and the amount of usable farm land shrinks. Going vertical also makes sense when considering the the environmental cost of trucking food into cities from distant farms.
Check out “Valcent,” http://blog.valcent.net/
We’re growing vertically today!

]]> http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/26533/comment-page-1#comment-146778 Zach Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:29:00 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/26533#comment-146778 This one sounds profoundly impractical to me. Why build multi-billion dollar skyscrapers just to grow lettuce when there are millions of acres growing food just a few dozen miles away? This one sounds profoundly impractical to me. Why build multi-billion dollar skyscrapers just to grow lettuce when there are millions of acres growing food just a few dozen miles away?

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