The next is a cool report, from New York Magazine. Some people could think their are only freaky ideas and, Sure ... Are only freaky ideas.The only solution to get a clean development is throgh serious policy from the Goverment together with enterprises and investigation institutes, so is nice to read the several proposes around the world.
USA: SkyFarming
by Lisa Chamberlain (NYMag)
A Columbia professor believes that converting skyscrapers into crop farms could help reduce global warming and make New York cleaner. It’s a vision straight out of Futurama—but here’s how it might work.
Urban farming has always been a slightly quixotic endeavor. From the small animal farm that was perched on the roof of the Upper West Side’s Ansonia apartment building in the early 1900s (fresh eggs delivered by bellhop!) to community gardens threatened by real-estate development, the dream of preserving a little of the country in the city is a utopian one. But nobody has ever dreamed as big as Dr. Dickson Despommier, a professor of environmental sciences and microbiology at Columbia University, who believes that “vertical farm” skyscrapers could help fight global warming.
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