Vertical Farming

Vertical Farming

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 1591 , Segment 5

Census Apportionment, Zoom Fatigue, Super Soldier Ethics

Episode: Census Apportionment, Zoom Fatigue, Super Soldier Ethics

  • May 4, 2021 8:00 pm
  • 15:14 mins

Most of the food we eat in the US is grown somewhere many miles from where we live. But there’s a solution some crowded cities in Asia are experimenting with where food is grown inside high-rise buildings. It’s called vertical farming, and Columbia University emeritus ecology professor Dickson Despommier is an advocate for it. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)