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Dickson travels to indoor farm Gotham Greens in Brooklyn, New York to speak with Co-founder and CEO Viraj Puri.

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Viraj Puri

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Direct download: UrbAg029.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 9:41pm EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Daniel Podmirseg

Daniel joins Dickson and Vincent to talk about the Vertical Farm Institute, which provides advice and planning on the design and construction of indoor farms.

 

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Direct download: UrbAg028.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 10:20am EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson provides an update on progress towards establishing long-term, sustainable, local, safe food systems based on indoor farming.

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Direct download: UrbAg027.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 12:23pm EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Robert Colangelo

Dickson and Vincent speak with Robert Colangelo, founding farmer and CEO of Green Sense Farms, the world's largest commercial indoor vertical farm. 

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Direct download: UrbAg026.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 7:30am EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson defines the term 'vertical farm': a high-tech greenhouse that is stacked on top of itself, transforming it into a multi-story growing space.

 

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This episode is sponsored by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and non­fiction series from the world’s best filmmakers. Get unlimited access starting at just $2.99 a month, and for our audience, the first two months are completely free if you sign up at curiositystream.com/microbe and use the promo code MICROBE.

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Direct download: UrbAg025.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 2:27pm EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Joel Cuello

Dickson and Vincent speak with Professor Joel Cuello about his work on engineering of sustainable biological and agricultural innovations, including bioregenerative space life support, crop hydroponics, plant tissue culture, micropropagation, and industrial mass production of algae and plant cell and microbial cultures.

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Direct download: UrbAg024.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 8:30am EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Gene Giacomelli

Dickson and Vincent speak with Professor Gene Giacomelli about his work on controlled environment plant production systems research, design, development and applications.

 

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Direct download: UrbAg023.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 7:13pm EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Clare Miflin

Dickson and Vincent speak with architect Clare Miflin about biomimicry - innovation inspired by nature - and environmentally sound building practices. 

 

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Direct download: UrbAg022.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 11:19am EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Gregory Kiss

Dickson and Vincent speak with architect Gregory Kiss about how to build self-sustaining urban buildings.

 

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Direct download: UrbAg021.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 1:37pm EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Ed Horton and Danielle Horton

Dickson and Vincent speak with Ed and Danielle Horton from Urban Produce, which uses a high-density vertical indoor growing system which they hope to implement all over the world.

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Direct download: UrbAg020.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 5:05pm EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent review recent developments in indoor farming, and catch up with the backlog of listener questions and comments.

 

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Direct download: UrbAg019.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 1:22pm EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Caleb Harper

Dickson and Vincent speak with Caleb Harper about the Open Agriculture initiative at the MIT Media Lab.

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Direct download: UrbAg018.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 9:22am EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent review recent entrants into the growing discipline of urban agriculture.

 

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Direct download: UrbAg017.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 9:01am EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Penny McBride and Nona Yehia

Dickson and Vincent speak with the founders of Vertical Harvest, an indoor farm in Jackson, Wyoming.

 

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Direct download: UrbAg016.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 1:24pm EDT

AeroFarmsHosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Ed Harwood and Mark Oshima

Dickson and Vincent visit AeroFarms, an indoor farm in Newark, NJ and speak with Chief Science Officer Ed Harwood and Chief Marketing Officer Mark Oshima.

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Direct download: UrbAg015.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 12:19pm EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Henry Gordon-Smith

Dickson and Vincent meet with Henry Gordon-Smith, founder of Agritecture and board member of the Association for Vertical Farming.

 

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Direct download: UrbAg014.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 5:07pm EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Dan Albert

Dickson and Vincent talk with Dan Albert, founder of Farmbox Greens, a commercial urban farm in Seattle, Washington.

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Direct download: UrbAg013.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 11:09am EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Paul Hardej

Dickson and Vincent speak with Paul Hardej, founder of Farmed Here, a commercial vertical farm in Chicago, Illinois.

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Direct download: UrbAg012.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 10:56pm EDT


Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Chris Hammelef and Paul Grey

Dickson and Vincent speak with Chris and Paul of Illumitex to learn about their revolutionary approach to designing horticultural LED lighting.

 

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Direct download: UrbAg011.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 1:18pm EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent read listener email about urban agriculture, hydroponics, aquaponics, underground vertical farms, climate change, and more.

 

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Direct download: UrbAg010.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 8:34pm EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Milan Kluko and Daniel Kluko

Dickson and Vincent speak with Milan and Daniel Kluko, owners of Green Spirit Farms, a sustainable vertical farm in New Buffalo, Michigan.

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Direct download: UrbAg009.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 4:52pm EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: James Cannon

Dickson and Vincent speak with James Cannon, Chief of Horticulture at Green Farms A&M, about how his company produces food indoors.

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Direct download: UrbAg008.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 9:10pm EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent continue their discussion of the science of indoor farming.

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Dickson's pick

Bog bodies of the Iron Age (Nova)

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Direct download: UrbAg007.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 11:47am EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent provide an overview of the technologies that allow the practice of indoor farming.

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Dickson's pick

Practical Hydroponics and Greenhouses

Listener pick

Christophe - Inquiring Minds podcast

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Direct download: UrbAg006.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 10:28am EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent discuss how the vertical farm concept was developed and where it stands today.

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Vincent's pick

Big Ideas (YouTube)

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Direct download: UrbAg005.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 10:37am EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent talk about why and how farming practices will change.

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Dickson's Pick

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

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Direct download: UrbAg004.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 1:28pm EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent continue their brief history of farming with a discussion of farming after the Dust Bowl.

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Dickson's Pick

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

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Direct download: UrbAg003.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 2:22pm EDT


Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent discuss the effects on industrialization on the development of farming.

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Dickson's Pick

Photographs of Dorothea Lange

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Direct download: UrbAg002.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 9:40am EDT

Hosts: Dickson Despommier and Vincent Racaniello

Dickson and Vincent launch their new podcast with a discussion of the early origins of farming.

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Dickson's Pick

Origins of agriculture

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Direct download: UrbAg001.mp3
Category:science -- posted at: 7:00pm EDT

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