FlexPlanter. High-tech restaurant without waiters. Japan's Ramen Robot. Leading supplier for growers and industries. Vertical Farms. The current 3.3 billion global urban population is expected to grow to 5 billion by 2025...
Today our agricultural footprint is the size of South America...what will it be tomorrow... Source EDITT Tower (“Ecological Design In The Tropics”) is being built in Singapore with the financial support of the National University. The 26 story tower will have over half its surface area covered by organic local vegetation.
Solar panels will generate up to 40% of the building’s energy demands, and human waste will also be converted into an energy source via an on-site bio-gas facility. Robot-Readable Gardens. Brightfarms. Hydroponic lettuce automation. The Plant: My Beer Feeds Your Fish! Real Live Vertical Farm Built In South Korea, Churning Out Lettuce. Image Credit Rural Development Administration We have been showing conceptual vertical farms for years, but in Suwon, South Korea they have one working and producing vegetables. It is a little three storey demonstration project in a nondescript building (image here), operating much like Dickson Despommier has described in his book, The Vertical Farm, right down to the airlocks and sterility he suggests is required.
Fabian Kretschmer and Malte E. Kollenberg write in Spiegel Online: Every person who steps foot in the Suwon vertical farm must first pass through an "air shower" to keep outside germs and bacteria from influencing the scientific experiment.....Heads of lettuce are lined up in stacked layers. Cyberfarm. In the 21st century, it is unconscionable that anyone should go hungry, that we should waste as much food as we do, or that we should be using so much fresh water for old fashioned agricultural practices, especially given our advanced agricultural knowledge and technical capabilities.
One of the largest food problems is the centralized nature of production and the costly expense, financial and environmental, of distribution. Access is everything, and by giving an option to have food grown locally in an efficient and sustainable manner, we can be a part of ushering in a new agricultural paradigm. Chicago's vertical farm and food business incubator.