New Technologies-glimpses of a bright new Future (1)

Visions of the future, but with us now.

We might have seen glimpses of the future already - they have been shown on our screens, and in our newspapers and magazines.

It's just a short step - with the right inspiration and unity, we'll be having:

  • non-polluting, (and thankfully) more silent cars.
  • flying cars The first will be in showrooms near you, very soon!
  • solar and other sustainable energy sources.
  • many other technical innovations that will improve our lives and our planet's health.
  • Vertical Farms - an "Agricultural Revolution", whose time has come, right now!

Vertical Farms

  • high rise "vertical farms" an idea developed by Dr. Dickson Despommier, a professor of environmental sciences and microbiology at Columbia University. These will be self-sustaining eco-systems with no need for long-haul transport, in our cities.

    A TV documentary here in the UK has already described these farms, and existing farmers were asked whether they would be willing to try farming in them - there was an almost universal enthusiasm for the idea. The self-sustaining organic nature of it is just too attractive to not try, plus any crop or vegetable can be grown as the necessary environment can be created for each.
    The benefits are too great to ignore, listed below.

It will enable us to:

  • liberate a great deal of land presently used by large industrial non-organic farms, which the VFs will be replacing. This land can be used to create:
    • forests to consume our CO2!
    • National Parks and Game Reserves/ very large Safari Parks**
    • business parks for all the new businesses using the latest hi-tech technologies.
    • fun or recreational parks of all types, to inspire us, and to relax and holiday in.
    • freedom to roam!
    • anything you can think of!
  • go "fowards to nature", not "back to nature" as so many seem to wish for, which means regression and all it's concomitant miseries and hellishness.

    ** We can introduce animals in the developed world and benefit from their presence, to enrich our lives and enthrall us and our children. The animals will need to be fenced in, of course.
  • get rid of Zoos, which will be great for all concerned-certainly the poor inmates. The Zoos and Safari Parks (who have the expertise already) should be the organisations to make the necessary transformations.

    Calling all animal liberationists. Please find work if you don't have any, and stop terrorising our researchers and scientists who are trying to provide the answers and medical cures we need.
    We all need to make sacrifices sometimes!
    Their animals are treated humanely compared to some countries.

    In fact, put your energies and attention onto some of the countries whose practices to wildlife are abhorent in the extreme --skinning the animals alive for their fur, and other terrrible practices too gastly to mention.
    They really need your attention much much more.
    I am a lover of all animals and wildlife, but humans do come first, plus it will benefit animals in the long run as well.

The advantages of Vertical Farming are as follows:

  • Year-round crop production
  • Elimination of agricultural runoff
  • Significant reduction of fossil fuels for farm machines and crop transportion
  • Better use of abandoned or unused properties
  • No weather related crop failures
  • Improved sustainability for urban centers
  • Conversion of black or gray water to drinking water
  • Provision of energy back to the grid via methane generation
  • Creation of new urban employment opportunities
  • Reduction of infection transmission risks
  • Control of vermin by using restaurant waste for methane generation

Click on the link to be taken to the Vertical Farm website, the best hope for creating a wonderful new future for our world!

Thankyou Dr. Despommier for this inspirational answer to so many problems that we have created for ourselves.
We now just need to get it trialled ASAP, and if it works, let's get cracking with creating the wonderful future that is waiting for us-Forwards to Nature!

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Here are more, beautifully presented, images.

Here is a video of Dr. Despommier talking about the VF project.

Here are some of the beautiful and futuristic designs created by architects from around the world.




Build a 21-story circular greenhouse, says Dr. Dickson Despommier, an environmental science professor at Columbia University, and it can be as productive as 588 acres of land - growing, say, 12 million heads of lettuce a year.

(CNNmoney.com)