Claudia Cujar
Mateusz Kruk
Geoffrey Garst
Gilma Mantilla
Erica Hahn
Karl Minges
Schuyler Henderson
Christopher Ovanez
Carolyn Hettrich
Jonathan Stettin
Yuki Kaneda
Sarah Wishnek
Chris Karampathis
Class of 2009
Joshua Bernstock
Yanjuska Lescaille
Alisa M. Koval
Sara M. Miller
Jonathan P. Salud
Alexander T. Varga
Alexander T. Sonneborn
Kate R. Weinberg
Naomi J. Sorkin
Daniel Yagoda
Sunny Uppal
Zahira Zahid
Class of 2010
Patrice Adele
Lea Kiefer
Juilee Prakash Baride
Freda Robyn Laulicht
Jonathan Remy Camuzeaux
Allison Michelle Martineau
Michelle T. Chuang
Genevieve Sophia Slocum
Offira Shuly Gabbay
Ida Hui Suen
Elizabeth Ellen Hornyak
Iesha Wadala
Author’s Note on the Rainforest Fund
The Rainforest Fund (www.rainforestfund.org) was established in 1989 by Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, out of their deep passion for preserving what is left of the world’s rainforests. I also am a big fan of rainforests, having visited many of them in my travels around the world. They are Earth’s most beautiful places, bar none. I donate to Sting and Trudie’s foundation and will continue to do so in the future. I realize that my contributions are likely a small sum in comparison to what is needed, but every little bit helps. My hope is that others who have not yet learned about their cause will also become motivated to help in the fund-raising effort needed to have an impact on rainforest protection and reforestation.
Suggested Reading
Chapter 1. Remodeling Nature
Defoe, Daniel. A Journal of the Plague Years by a Citizen Who All the While Continued to Live in London. Volume 6 of The Shakespeare Head Edition of the Novels and Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe. Oxford, England: Blackwell, 1927.
Freuedenberg, Nicholas, and Sandro Galea. Cities and Health of the Public. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press, 2006.
Lovelock, James. The Ages of Gala. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1988.
McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart. Cradle to Cradle. New York: North Point Press/Farrar, Strauss & Giroux. 2002.
McHarg, Ian L., Design with Nature. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley Publishers, 1995.
www.hydroponicsfarming.com/
www.verticalfarm.com
Chapter 2. Yesterday’s Agriculture
Balter, Michael. “Plant Science: Seeking Agriculture’s Ancient Roots.” Science Magazine, June 29, 2007, pp. 1830–35.
Mazoyer, Marcel, and Laurence Roudart, A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis. London/Stirling, Virginia: 2006.
www.archaeology.about.com/od/stoneage/ss/tishkoff_2.htm - Human migrations
www.comp-archaeology.org/AgricultureOrigins.htm
www.esciencenews.com/articles/2009/03/23/researchers.find.earliest.evidence.domesticated.maize
Chapter 3. Today’s Agriculture
Brown, Stephen R. A Most Damnable Invention: Dynamite, Nitrates, and the Making of the Modern World. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2005.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.
Simpson, Sarah. “Nitrogen Fertilizer: Agricultural Breakthrough—An Environmental Bane.” Scientific American, March 20, 2009.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.
www.civilwar.com/ - civil war history
www.lightingtechnologygreenhouse.org/
www.sjgs.com/history.html - discovery of oil
www.ssbtractor.com/features/Ford_tractors.html - History of Ford tractors
www.waterforpeople.org/site/PageServer
Chapter 4. Tomorrow’s Agriculture
Despommier, Dickson. The Future of Our Food. Concilience, 2010.
The State of Food and Agriculture 2009 Livestock in the balance. Food and Agriculture Organization publication. January 2010 ISBN: 978-92-5-106215-9
www.climateandfarming.org/
www.efma.org/…/Forecast%20of%20food,%20Farming%20and%20fertilizer%20Use%20in%20the%20European%20…- PDF on future of fertilizer usage in Europe
www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/wfshome/en/?no_cache=1
www.futurist.com/articles-archive/questions/future-of-agriculture/
Chapter 5. The Vertical Farm: Advantages
International Symposium on High Technology for Greenhouse System Management: Greensys2007
Kenyon, Stewart and Howard M. Resh, Hydroponics for the Home Gardner. 6th Ed. Toronto: Key Porter Books.
Practical Hydroponics and Greenhouse Magazine (Australia)
www.aben.cornell.edu/extension/CEA/indexv4.htm
www.actahort.org/books/801/801_48.htm
www.aesop.rutgers.edu/~horteng/
www.ag.arizona.edu/CEAC/
www.hydroponicist.com/
www.thinairgrowingsystems.com/ (aeroponics)
Chapter 6. The Vertical Farm: Form and Function
Gissen, David ed. Big and Green: Towards Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century. Princeton Architectural Press.
Samuelson, Timothy J. Louis Sullivan, Prophet of Modern Architecture. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998.
www.architecture.about.com/od/construction/g/ETFE.htm
www.edenproject.com/
www.lightingtechnologygreenhouse.org/ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Lighting Research Center
Chapter 7. The Vertical Farm: Social Benefits
Christensen, Clayton M. et al. Seeing What’s Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2004.
Chapter 8. The Vertical Farm: Alternate Uses
Ahmed, Iqbal, Farrukh Aqil, and Mohammad Owais, eds. Modern Phyto-medicine: Turning Medicinal Plants into Drugs. Wiley VCH, Pubs., 2006.
Yaniv, Zohara, Uriel Bachrach, eds. Handbook of Medicinal Plants. Binghamton, New York: Food Products Press, 2005.
www.converanet.com/environment/living-machines-water-treatment
www.discovermagazine.com/2008/may/23-from-toilet-to-tap
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703503804575083611168442980.html
http://riley.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=8&tax_level=3&tax_subject=6&topic_id=1052&level3_id=6599&level4_id=0&level5_id=0&placement_default=0 At this Web site: USDA Web sites on Biofuels (PDF 88 KB).
Chapter 9. Food Fast-Forwarded
Rainey, David L. Sustainable Business Development: Inventing the Future Through Strategy, Innovation and Leadership. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Web Resources
http://www.agreenroof.com/page8.html
Green Living™ Technologies is a privately owned company providing products and services that facilitate and simplify the integration of environmental technologies such as Green Roofs and Green Walls into our dwellings and work spaces as we empower local businesses and communities with a model that practices environmental, social, and economic responsibility.
www.agricultureinformation.com/mag
Agriculture and industry magazine
http://attra.ncat.org
Looking for the latest in sustainable agriculture and organic farming news, events, and funding opportunities? We feature all that, plus in-depth publications on production practices, alternative crop and livestock enterprises, innovative marketing, organic certification, and highlights of local, regional, USDA, and other federal sustainable agriculture activities.
www.bkfarms.com
Brooklyn Farms—hydroponic superstore
www.brightfarmsys
tems.com
Bright Farms Systems is a hydroponic rooftop greenhouse design and consultancy firm located in NYC.
http://cityscapefarms.com
Cityscape Farms is a hydroponic rooftop greenhouse company based out of San Francisco.
http://coolfoodscampaign.org
The Cool Foods Campaign educates the public about how food choices can affect global warming and empowers them with the resources to reduce this impact.
http://earthtrends.wri.org
EarthTrends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.
www.energysavers.gov/renewable_energy/ocean/index.cfm/mytopic=50010
Information about ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), a type of renewable power harnessing the battery-like method of harnessing power from big bodies of water.
http://esa.un.org/unup
World urbanization prospects
http://www.fao.org/docrep/U8480E/U8480E07.HTM
An atlas of food and agriculture
www.fas.usda.gov
FAS Mission Statement
Linking U.S. agriculture to the world to enhance export opportunities and global food security.
http://food-hub.org
Food Hub is an online network that connects local food producers to local food buyers.
www.foodinsight.org
The International Food Information Council Foundation provides food-safety, nutrition, and healthful-eating information to help you make good and safe food choices.
http://thefoodproject.org
Since 1991, The Food Project has built a national model of engaging young people in personal and social change through sustainable agriculture.
www.gardenofedenhydroponics.co.uk/home.php?cat=5
A wide variety of powered and nonpowered systems to suit every situation; kind of like amazon.com but strictly for hydroponics equipment.
www.theglobaleducationproject.org/earth/index.php
A few years ago a group of educators from British Columbia, Canada, set out to try to get an objective look at the state of the world. We wanted The Big Picture—not just this or that issue—but the most essential points of every important issue: The Executive Summary of the state of the planet. This Web site is the result of that search. The site (and the accompanying wall chart) are here to show you—in as clear, objective, and accessible a format as possible—the condition of the world, both its natural and human elements.
http://gothamgreens.com
Gotham Greens is a rooftop hydroponic greenhouse company in NYC.
www.grain.org/front
GRAIN is a small international nonprofit organization that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems, mostly in Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
www.greenroofs.org
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities—North America Inc. is now a rapidly growing not-for-profit industry association working to promote the green roofs throughout North America.
www.growingedge.com
Blog on hydroponics and DIY gardening
www.hvcnyc.com
High View Creations is a rooftop garden and vertical wall garden company in NYC.
www.hydrogrown.com/reading_material_ghe.asp
Reading materials from General Hydroponics Europe
www.hydroponics.com.au/
The leading hydroponics and greenhouse magazine in the world
http://inka.fm
Inka Biospheric Systems is a socially conscious company that has created a series of solutions in response to the global “water, food, and housing” crisis.
www.justfood.org
Just Food works to increase access to fresh, healthy food in NYC and to support the local farms and urban gardens that grow it.
www.ledgrowlights.com
LEDGrowLights™ combine the gentleness of fluorescents with the growing power of HIDs. Our lights are warm to the touch and have a minimum useful lifetime of 50,000 hours—the equivalent of 18 hours a day for 7½ years.
http://www.theledlight.com
Everything made with LED lights
www.meti.go.jp/english/policy/sme_chiiki/plantfactory/index.html
Plant factories in Japan
http://www.mingodesign.com/
Green wall company
http://na.fs.fed.us/ecosystemservices/carbon/faq.shtm
Carbon market opportunities for private forest landowners
www.netafim.com/offerings/greenhouse
Netafim™ Greenhouse, one of the world’s leading greenhouse solution providers, has accrued vast global experience in providing highly specialized, state-of-the-art greenhouse systems, commercial greenhouses, and greenhouse equipment.
www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/crp/
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) provides technical and financial assistance to eligible farmers and ranchers to address soil, water, and related natural resource concerns on their lands in an environmentally beneficial and cost-effective manner.
www.nysawg.org
The New York Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (NYSAWG) fosters and promotes sustainable agriculture practices and sustainable local food systems.
http://our.windowfarms.org
Windowfarms are suspended, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible food gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials.
www.pacinst.org
The Pacific Institute is a nonpartisan research institute that works to advance environmental protection, economic development, and social equity.
http://www.postcarbon.org
Founded in 2003, Post Carbon Institute is leading the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world.
www.rickbayless.com/foundation/about.html
The Frontera Farmer Foundation is a nonprofit organization committed to promoting small, sustainable farms serving the Chicago area by providing them with capital development grants.
www.skyvegetables.com
Sky Vegetables is a rooftop hydroponic greenhouse company based out of San Francisco.
www.smallplanetinstitute.org/home
Living democracy, feeding hope.
www.startech.net
The mission of Startech—a plasma arc gasifier company—is to change the way the world views and employs discarded materials, what many would now call waste.
www.statemaster.com/encyclopedia/Aeroponics
Aeroponics methods overview
http://sustainableagriculture.net
The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) is the leading voice for sustainable agriculture in the federal policy arena, joining together the voices of grassroots farm, food, conservation, and rural organizations from all regions of the country to advocate for federal policies and programs supporting the long-term economic, social, and environmental sustainability of agriculture, natural resources, and rural communities.
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373664,00.html
What the World Eats: a photo essay
http://www.unep.org/dewa/assessments/ecosystems/water/vitalwater/15.htm#16
Global water usage maps
www.unicef.org/sowc08/
The State of the World’s Children, 2008, assesses the state of child survival and primary health care for mothers, newborns, and children today. These issues serve as sensitive barometers of a country’s development and well-being and as evidence of its priorities and values. Investing in the health of children and their mothers is a human rights imperative and one of the surest ways for a country to set its course toward a better future.
www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde/index.htm
The World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report provides USDA’s comprehensive forecasts of supply and demand for major U.S. and global crops and U.S. livestock. The report gathers information from a number of statistical r
eports published by USDA and other government agencies, and provides a framework for additional USDA reports.
www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome
USDA
www.vector-foiltec.com/cms/gb/index.php
Design and construction firm using ETFE expertly
www.worldfoodprize.org
The World Food Prize is the foremost international award recognizing—without regard to race, religion, nationality, or political beliefs—the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food in the world.
Additional Suggestions
Here are more sites to facilitate further exploration on selected topics.
http://www.aben.cornell.edu/extension/CEA/indexv4.htm
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AdSpR..41..730K
www.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v6/v6i3a2.htm
http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac/research/archive/hydroponics.htm
http://ag.arizona.edu/hydroponictomatoes.html
http://aquaculture-hydroponics-greenhouse.blogspot.com
www.articlesbase.com/gardening-articles/the-history-of-hydroponics-throughout-the-ages-405950.html
www.backyardfarms.com
www.baltimoreurbanag.org
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