A presentation by and discussion with Dr. Dickson Despommier, author of the Vertical Farm. Join us to learn how far a discussion can go in 10 years time and where this dicsussion might take us in the next 10.
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“Basterebbero trenta fattorie urbane verticali per sfamare cinquantamila abitanti di Manhattan.” Acquista il video integrale su: http://www.21min.tv/shop/index.php/edizione-2012/video-in-italiano/dickson-despommier-detail
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Cool Jobs: Meet the people with the coolest jobs in the world. Medical ecologist Dickson Despommier describes the Vertical Farm Project, a movement to promote urban renewal while producing a sustainable food supply. The project is a result of his years studying the microbial worm trichinella, the creativity of his ecology students, and the contributions […]
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Agritecture Workshop in Fresno, CA on February 6th, 2016. Dickson’s keynote to open competition presentations.
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The Comedy Cellar presents ” Live from America podcast ” with Noam Dworman and Hatem Gabr. This Episodes Guests : Professor Dickson Despommier, Comedian Boris Khaykin and Comedian Tony Daro. Dickson D. Despommier is an emeritus professor of microbiology and Public Health at Columbia University. . Despommier has received media coverage for his ideas on […]
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Interview with Dickson Despommier after his speech at the conference Economy, People & Planet 2015, organised by Omstilling Nu/Transition Now. — The weekend 14-15 November the Danish network organisation Omstilling Nu, together with the newspaper Dagbladet Information and Copenhagen Business School, hosted the conference Economy, People and Planet 2015 – Exploring Actions of Transition. The […]
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Domande a D.Despommier alla fine del suo discorso. – CONFERENZE VERTICAL FARM – La manifestazione ha offerto un’opportunità unica di partecipare a una serie di conferenze specificamente dedicate all’intera filiera della Vertical Farming. AQUAFARM 2017 ha convolto i maggiori esperti del settore, per illustrare gli ultimi sviluppi e aggiornamenti relativi al settore della Vertical Farming, […]
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The father of the vertical farming movement is Dr. Dickson Despommier. He’s a former Columbia University professor of microbiology and public health. In 2010, he published “The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century” which was recently translated into Mandarin Chinese. Karina Huber sat down with him first asked about what he sees […]
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Prof. Dickson D. Despommier held a passionate talk about his idea of „Vertical Farming. Cities as agricultural centers“ at the Austrian Innovation Forum. This project could help to feed the world in the future. He is an emeritus professor of Microbiology and Public Health at Columbia University. Together with his graduate students in a medical […]
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Dickson Despommier spoke at the first edition of PINC.Sarasota in 2014. Like many people Despommier is worried about the food we are eating and about how to feed an ongoing growing world population. He found a solution by building vertical farms. You will be surprised what will happen if we can grow food in cities […]
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The world faces significant food-supply challenges as its population increases. Dickson Despommier encourages cities to think big – or rather, up. In this talk, Despommier explains the Vertical Farm, skyscraper-like structures that bring rural food production directly to urban centres. Watch as he shows the idea is closer to reality than one might think.
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Radiolab – Parasites [Dickson Despommier, Dr. Robert Sapolsky, Fuller Torrey, Pat Walters and Carl Zimmer] ================================================================================= What’s gotten into you? In this hour, Radiolab uncovers a world full of parasites. Could parasites be the shadowy hands that pull the strings of life? We explore nature’s moochers, with tales of lethargic farmers, zombie cockroaches, and even […]
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Radiolab – Sculptors of Monumental Narrative [Dickson Despommier and Pat Walters] —————————————————————————————————————————————————————– Dickson Despommier tells us the story of how the insatiable millionaire John D. Rockefeller turned an eye to the untapped market of the American South and ended up eradicating the hookworm (and, in the process, a number of other awful afflictions) with an […]
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