The Problem

I get a lot of phone calls (mostly media interviews), requests for on-camera appearances, and a ton of e-mail, all asking me to define (usually in a simple, declarative sentence or two) what I mean by the term ”vertical farm”. Forget that I have written...

During the Disruptive Innovation Festival, Dickson Despommier will present a webinar on 18 Nov 2015 18:15 – 19:00 GMT. You can go to this link at the specified time, or register at this link.
With a growing world population, and shrinking space for growing crops, some argue that cities of the future must generate their own food supply. Dickson Despommier’s elegant and simple answer for achieving this goal is ‘vertical farming’. Dickson is...

I was about to give my rehearsal talk at a recent TEDx conference when a rather distinguished looking older woman (another presenter at the same conference) approached me, and with a stern facial expression that one could only interpret as constrained...

Big news: a new vertical farm just opened in Bedford Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, the current epicenter of vertical farming in the United States. And it’s not just an ordinary vertical farm (if that term can be used at this early stage of this...