Tonight I’m presenting at the Green Festival in Seattle. The format is Pecha Kucha, which I’ve done before, but I’m looking forward to the opportunity to present CITYCROPS ideas for a vertical aquaponic greenhouse to an audience likely to be sympathetic and already engaged in some of the principles behind this work.
A Future for Agriculture

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After its discovery, one of the most prolific uses of glass in construction was for displaying exotic plants brought back from Roman adventuring.  Then came the Crystal Palace, in the 1850’s.  Then came skyscrapers, dripping with glass.
Urban greenhouses, proposed by CITYCROPS, require two paradigm shifts for design.  The first is to stack grow-floors on top [...]