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The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century (Audiobook)
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The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century (Audiobook)The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century (Audiobook)

When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thought up. Despommier's stroke of genius, The Vertical Farm, has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. These farms, grown inside skyscrapers, would provide solutions to many of the serious problems we currently face, including: allowing year-round crop production; providing food to areas currently lacking arable land; immunity to weather-related crop failure; re-use of water collected by de-humidification of the indoor environment; new employment opportunities
 
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