Tue, 13 March 2018
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 Links for this episodeSend your questions and comments to urbanag@microbe.tv |
Sat, 23 December 2017
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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Fri, 10 November 2017
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. Links for this episode
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Tue, 18 October 2016
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. Links for this episode
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Fri, 2 September 2016
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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Thu, 23 June 2016
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. Links for this episode
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Sat, 14 May 2016
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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Sat, 2 April 2016
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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Mon, 29 February 2016
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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Tue, 1 December 2015
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. Links for this episode
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