--- product_id: 262252703 title: "The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century (Tenth Anniversary Edition)" price: "145.41 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/262252703-the-vertical-farm-feeding-the-world-in-the-21st-century store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century (Tenth Anniversary Edition) **Price:** 145.41 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century (Tenth Anniversary Edition) - **How much does it cost?** 145.41 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/262252703-the-vertical-farm-feeding-the-world-in-the-21st-century) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The updated tenth anniversary edition, with a new afterword by Gene A. Giacomelli! "The vertical farm is a world-changing innovation whose time has come. Dickson Despommier's visionary book provides a blueprint for securing the world's food supply and at the same time solving one of the gravest environmental crises facing us today." --Sting Imagine a world where every town has their own local food source, grown in the safest way possible, where no drop of water or particle of light is wasted, and where a simple elevator ride can transport you to nature's grocery store - imagine the world of the vertical farm. When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thought up. Despommier's stroke of genius, the vertical farm, has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Despommier explains how the vertical farm will have an incredible impact on changing the face of this planet for future generations. Despommier takes readers on an incredible journey inside the vertical farm, buildings filled with fruits and vegetables that will provide local food sources for entire cities. Vertical farms will allow us to: - Grow food 24 hours a day, 365 days a year - Protect crops from unpredictable and harmful weather - Re-use water collected from the indoor environment - Provide jobs for residents - Eliminate use of pesticides, fertilizers, or herbicides - Drastically reduce dependence on fossil fuels - Prevent crop loss due to shipping or storage - Stop agricultural runoff Vertical farms can be built in abandoned buildings and on deserted lots, transforming our cities into urban landscapes which will provide fresh food grown and harvested just around the corner. Possibly the most important aspect of vertical farms is that they can built by nations with little or no arable land, transforming nations which are currently unable to farm into top food producers. In the tradition of the bestselling The World Without Us , The Vertical Farm is a completely original landmark work destined to become an instant classic. With a Foreword by Majora Carter. Review: Great book! - This book was great I think this is the future! If this was immediately implemented our earth would be sooooo much better to live in! Now I've established I support this I'll tell you why I don't feel there is such a huge price loss! If you think about it there is soooooo much land people are farming that they half to pay taxes on by cutting the amount of land you farm to produce the same amount of produce you save on taxes... If it's in a city where there are higher taxes you would still save! Then think about the shipping if you have to get this produce across the entire country that inquires LOTS OF truckers (which sadly would have to find other work other than produce shipping) but all these truckers need at least minimum wage and then the trucks themselves need enormous amounts of gas to run the truck and the freezers as well! This saves a lot more money to! You THEN have the money you make from the enormous amounts of saved produce that normally are sorted out and thrown away at delivery! You also save on water if you have irrigated land this saves you lots of money like a lot of it then you have the fertilizers and pesticides that your not using! The gas for farm vehicles etc. You then look at what your spending that you wouldn't other wise like the workers that work to harvest the crops and plant them (even tho i feel you could have the system largely automated) and so on, the reason people see this as a huge use of energy and cost is that the huge amount of land is compiled from say 75,000 acres into 1 acre or whatever the land savings are so your seeing all those resources and costs in one place when really I think your saving on a year to year bases but you also didn't add up what you can save from what it costs to run like the savings of water but the huge solar panels that would most likely sit on the roof the wind turbines you could work into the architecture then the biomass plant you could have in the basement. This still means HUGE money up front but are proved to make your money back in the end! I like vertical farming and IT'S THE FUTURE! All you need to do is build one hahahaha! Review: A must read! Nothing short of revolutionary. - A must read. Without a doubt, the ideas and concepts in The Vertical Farm are nothing short of revolutionary. Although much of the info has made it into talk shows, websites, and other media, I'd still recommend reading the book itself, as Dr. Despommier lays out a narrative that wraps up problem and solution in a comprehensive, easily digestible way. Part ecological manifesto, part vision statement, The Vertical Farm demonstrates the type of holistic thinking required to solve today's environmental challenges. The author focuses on the way in which human behavior -- namely food production -- impacts the environment, and how we can actually change it. Perhaps for the first time in this field, he truly melds such diverse disciplines as biology, ecological sciences, engineering and materials science, sociology, history, and politics, to show the sheer magnitude of the threats that modern human civilization has created for itself. This is the first half or so of the book, and it isn't until the second half that he offers a solution that appears tantalizingly achievable, using technology that to a large extent already exists, to create a man-made ecological system that could represent a breakthrough. Some of the latter part of the book rambles a bit as he goes off on some tangents (which are still relevant) on the potential benefits of the vertical farm concept. However, this is only a small observation; the book's power is its systems-level approach to provide a blueprint rather than a detailed way ahead. As he readily admits, much more actual work remains to be done to make the vertical farm a reality. The reader will probably finish the book wondering at least two things: what can we do to make this happen, and do we as a society have the political and collective will to realize his vision? ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #578,998 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #75 in Agriculture Industry (Books) #145 in Sustainable Agriculture (Books) #3,436 in Engineering (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 336 Reviews | ## Images ![The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century (Tenth Anniversary Edition) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ccWufG7qL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great book! *by D***E on September 21, 2011* This book was great I think this is the future! If this was immediately implemented our earth would be sooooo much better to live in! Now I've established I support this I'll tell you why I don't feel there is such a huge price loss! If you think about it there is soooooo much land people are farming that they half to pay taxes on by cutting the amount of land you farm to produce the same amount of produce you save on taxes... If it's in a city where there are higher taxes you would still save! Then think about the shipping if you have to get this produce across the entire country that inquires LOTS OF truckers (which sadly would have to find other work other than produce shipping) but all these truckers need at least minimum wage and then the trucks themselves need enormous amounts of gas to run the truck and the freezers as well! This saves a lot more money to! You THEN have the money you make from the enormous amounts of saved produce that normally are sorted out and thrown away at delivery! You also save on water if you have irrigated land this saves you lots of money like a lot of it then you have the fertilizers and pesticides that your not using! The gas for farm vehicles etc. You then look at what your spending that you wouldn't other wise like the workers that work to harvest the crops and plant them (even tho i feel you could have the system largely automated) and so on, the reason people see this as a huge use of energy and cost is that the huge amount of land is compiled from say 75,000 acres into 1 acre or whatever the land savings are so your seeing all those resources and costs in one place when really I think your saving on a year to year bases but you also didn't add up what you can save from what it costs to run like the savings of water but the huge solar panels that would most likely sit on the roof the wind turbines you could work into the architecture then the biomass plant you could have in the basement. This still means HUGE money up front but are proved to make your money back in the end! I like vertical farming and IT'S THE FUTURE! All you need to do is build one hahahaha! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A must read! Nothing short of revolutionary. *by S***N on October 23, 2010* A must read. Without a doubt, the ideas and concepts in The Vertical Farm are nothing short of revolutionary. Although much of the info has made it into talk shows, websites, and other media, I'd still recommend reading the book itself, as Dr. Despommier lays out a narrative that wraps up problem and solution in a comprehensive, easily digestible way. Part ecological manifesto, part vision statement, The Vertical Farm demonstrates the type of holistic thinking required to solve today's environmental challenges. The author focuses on the way in which human behavior -- namely food production -- impacts the environment, and how we can actually change it. Perhaps for the first time in this field, he truly melds such diverse disciplines as biology, ecological sciences, engineering and materials science, sociology, history, and politics, to show the sheer magnitude of the threats that modern human civilization has created for itself. This is the first half or so of the book, and it isn't until the second half that he offers a solution that appears tantalizingly achievable, using technology that to a large extent already exists, to create a man-made ecological system that could represent a breakthrough. Some of the latter part of the book rambles a bit as he goes off on some tangents (which are still relevant) on the potential benefits of the vertical farm concept. However, this is only a small observation; the book's power is its systems-level approach to provide a blueprint rather than a detailed way ahead. As he readily admits, much more actual work remains to be done to make the vertical farm a reality. The reader will probably finish the book wondering at least two things: what can we do to make this happen, and do we as a society have the political and collective will to realize his vision? ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ On Track *by V***L on February 16, 2011* Humanity is going to hit 7 billion before this year is out, and now more people live in cities than in countryside. It only makes sense for mankind to grow its food where it lives. Most cities were settled in the most arable land available, because those were the best places to grow settlements. It is somewhat of a tragedy that this prime agricultural land has been lost to urbanization. With vertical farming we can have the best of both worlds where there is living space for urban inhabitants, and space to grow crops for their consumption. 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