Urban Agriculture

Mar 13 2018 29 ep. 74 mins 6.7k

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Urban Agriculture is a podcast about the Third Green Revolution. Brought to you by Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello.

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Urban Agriculture 29: Gotham Greens

Mar 13 2018 42 mins

Dickson travels to indoor farm Gotham Greens in Brooklyn, New York to speak with Co-founder and CEO Viraj Puri. Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Guest: Viraj Puri Links for this episode Gotham Greens Send your questions and comments to [email protected]

Urban Agriculture 28: The Vertical Farm Institute

Dec 23 2017 59 mins

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Guest: Daniel Podmirseg Daniel joins Dickson and Vincent to talk about the Vertical Farm Institute, which provides advice and planning on the design and construction of indoor farms. Links for this episode Vertical Farm Institute Daniel's thesis, 'Up' Letters read on Urban Agriculture 28 Send your questions and comments to urbana

Urban Agriculture 27: The Next Big Things

Nov 10 2017 77 mins

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Dickson provides an update on progress towards establishing long-term, sustainable, local, safe food systems based on indoor farming. Links for this episode Pumpkin genome sequenced (SciDaily) The Next Big Thing(s) Seeds and Chips A Farm Grows in the City (WSJ) Plenty Square Roots Infarm Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center (Wi

Urban Agriculture 26: Green Sense Farms

Oct 18 2016 71 mins

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Guest: Robert Colangelo Dickson and Vincent speak with Robert Colangelo, founding farmer and CEO of Green Sense Farms, the world's largest commercial indoor vertical farm. Links for this episode Green Sense Farms Green Sense Radio Letters read on Urban Agriculture 26 This episode is sponsored by CuriosityStream, a subscription str

Urban Agriculture 25: Standing Tall

Sep 02 2016 100 mins

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Dickson defines the term 'vertical farm': a high-tech greenhouse that is stacked on top of itself, transforming it into a multi-story growing space. Links for this episode GreenTech Amsterdam The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono Rewilding the World by Caroline Fraser Carbon farming This episode is sponsored by CuriosityStream,

Urban Agriculture 24: Cuello's Law

Jun 23 2016 73 mins

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Guest: Joel Cuello Dickson and Vincent speak with Professor Joel Cuello about his work on engineering of sustainable biological and agricultural innovations, including bioregenerative space life support, crop hydroponics, plant tissue culture, micropropagation, and industrial mass production of algae and plant cell and microbial cult

Urban Agriculture 23: Controlled enviroment agriculture

May 14 2016 70 mins

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Guest: Gene Giacomelli Dickson and Vincent speak with Professor Gene Giacomelli about his work on controlled environment plant production systems research, design, development and applications. Links for this episode Controlled environment agriculture Biometry and biosystems informatics Food, bioproducts, and renewable energy Imag

Urban Agriculture 22: Clare-ity of thought

Apr 02 2016 94 mins

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Guest: Clare Miflin Dickson and Vincent speak with architect Clare Miflin about biomimicry - innovation inspired by nature - and environmentally sound building practices. Links for this episode Kiss & Kathcart Architects Biomimicry Institute Biomimicry 3.8 Make biomimicry your career Hermit crab vacancy chain (Vimeo) Image credit

Urban Agriculture 21: Kiss and tell

Feb 29 2016 96 mins

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Guest: Gregory Kiss Dickson and Vincent speak with architect Gregory Kiss about how to build self-sustaining urban buildings. Links for this episode Kiss & Kathcart Architects 2020 Challenge (pdf) The 2050 city (pdf) Science barge National Building Museum Greenhouse Project PS 333 The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono Send your

Urban Agriculture 20: Kalefornia dreamin'

Dec 01 2015 53 mins

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello Guests: Ed Horton and Danielle Horton Dickson and Vincent speak with Ed and Danielle Horton from Urban Produce, which uses a high-density vertical indoor growing system which they hope to implement all over the world. Links for this episode Urban Produce LLC Urban Produce on YouTube Urban Produce on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Inst