Hello everybody. I ran into this neat but frankly Utopian plan of Dickson Despommier to do high rise farming in cities...it was written up in http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/36823/title/Let%E2%80%99s_Get_Vertical
but the reality is it will take money and it will take space. We recently kicked around the question of what fate the looming resource crunches would deal to suburban living and sometimes tangle over the sustainability of cities but the hybrid farm/city envisioned in the article is a slightly different beast. Where better than S/T to ask how one dopes out the feasibility of such schemes. In particular: what is the cost/kg of delivered food if you throw in all long and short term liabilities and subtract subsidies? ...that is the number that has to beat farming efficiency [including the trucking and refrigeration costs] out in the farming districts by enough to warrant the regulation and the taking of city real estate for green houses. -George -- freedom is not more important than fairness and much easier to fake. _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
