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by Dr. Dickson Despommier


  www.bestgrowers.nl/start.html

  www.betterbuyhydroponics.com/index.php?pr=Hydroponic_Cucumbers

  www.biotech-weblog.com/50226711/hydroponics_a_smart_alternative_to_growing_rice.php

  www.cahabaclub.com

  www.casa-guatemala.org/map/map_location_20.html

  www.commondreams.org

  www.dem.ri.gov/programs/bnatres/agricult/pdf/urbanag.pdf

  www.detroitagriculture.org

  www.dicioccofarms.ca/index.shtml

  http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/HS147

  www.eurofresh.com/default.asp

  www.farmfreshri.org/learn/urbanagriculture_providence.php

  www.fast3.com/index.html

  www.flowgrow.co.za/companyprofile.html

  www.foodsecurity.org/PrimerCFSCUAC.pdf

  www.foodsecurity.org/ua_home.html

  www.freshwise.org

  www.freshzest.com.au

  www.gipaanda.bc.ca

  www.greenhousegrown.com

  www.greensgrow.org

  www.grow-anywhere.com

  www.growhotpeppers.com/tag/hydroponic-peppers

  www.growingedge.com/staff/profiles/morgan.html

  www.growingpower.org

  http://grumpygnome.com/journals/gardening/july6.htm

  www.hos.ufl.edu/protectedag/Strawberry.htm

  www.houwelings.com

  http://hubpages.com/hub/Advanced-Hydroponics

  http://hubpages.com/hub/hydroponicsforbeginners

  www.hydroponic-guide.com/bellpeppers.php

  www.hydroponic-guide.com/vegetables-carrots.php

  www.hydrotaste.com

  www.idrc.ca/en/ev-92997-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

  www.instructables.com/id/Hydroponic_Food_Factory/step17/Hydroponic-potatoes

  www.intergrowgreenhouses.com

  www.journeytoforever.org/cityfarm.html

  www.k12.hi.us/~radford/vica/hydro/LETTUCE.HTM

  www.kccua.org

  http://lakesideproduce.com/html/overview.html

  www.lans.nl/en/uk/company/mission

  www.lasvegas-delight.com/index.htm

  www.metroagalliance.org

  www.mirabel.qc.com/default.php

  www.mkeurbanag.org

  www.monthlyreview.org/090119koont.php

  www.mysimplehomegarden.com/garden/?p=411

  www.nasa.gov/missions/science/biofarming.html

  www.nbm.org/media/video/greener-good/urban-agriculture.html

  www.nevadanaturals.com

  www.new-ag.info/03-5/focuson.html

  www.nysaes.cornell.edu/hort/faculty/weber/index.html

  http://nysunworks.org

  www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/dining/07urban.html

  www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/dining/17roof.html

  http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/hydroponics/drake/index.php?option=wrapper&Itemid=110&albumid=5035938074163502529

  www.physiology.wisc.edu/ravi/okra

  www.progressillinois.com/2008/09/09/…/growing-movement

  www.realblueberries.com/bowerman-blueberries-hydroponic-strawberries.htm

  www.redstar-trading.nl/en/uk/home

  www.ruaf.org/node/512

  http://savoura.com/en/section02a.html

  www.seattle.gov/urbanagriculture

  www.seattleurbanfarmco.com

  www.sfc.ucdavis.edu/events/08workgroup/reynolds.pdf

  www.sfgro.org/ua.htm

  http://shenandoahrcd.org/ProjNoTillPix.htm

  www.simplyhydro.com/strawberries.htm

  www.smartybrand.com/index.html

  www.soave.com/core/diversified_great.php

  www.speedstarweb.com/other_projects.html

  www.sweetwatergrowers.com

  http://sweetwater-organic.com/blog

  www.tcurbanag.com/

  www.technologyforthepoor.com/UrbanAgriculture/Garden.htm

  www.thanetearth.com/about-us.html

  www.theberrypatchky.com/Berries.html

  www.thinairgrowingsystems.com

  www.uky.edu/Ag/Horticulture/anderson/brassica.pdf

  www.urbanagcouncil.com

  www.urbanagriculture-mena.org

  www.urbanbliss.com/hydroponics.html

  www.urbangardeninghelp.com

  www.villagefarms.com

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfVfq3lUlGM

  Index

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  acetylsalicylic acid

  adaptive radiation

  aeroponic farming

  agriculture

  deforestation and

  external natural forces and

  hydroponic and aeroponic

  “organically grown” movement

  and pollution

  seed production

  urban framing

  vertical farms and

  weather-related crop failures

  See also garbage and waste; vertical farm

  agriculture (yesterday’s)

  ancient gods and

  Bhutan

  biosphere vs. technosphere

  development of

  Egypt

  Fertile Crescent

  Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthals)

  Homo sapiens sapiens

  human beings, migration out of Africa

  Mexico

  Peru

  plants, cultivation of

  religion and

  species, introduced infectious agents casing extinction of

  stewardship

  the sun as a god

  written language, development of

  agriculture (today’s)

  agrochemicals, and ecological disruption

  Civil War

  colonial period

  dust bowl, recovery of

  dynamite, invention of

  farmers, population of

  food, future needs

  food cost

  food shortages

  frog populations, epidemics in

  gasoline powered tractor

  The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)

  have-nots

  haves

  internal combustion engine

  Louisiana Purchase

  oil, discovery and production of

  slavery

  victory gardens

  World War II and

  agriculture (tomorrow’s)

  agrochemicals

  Bangladesh, flooding in

  Central Valley of California, failure of

  corn, cultivation of

  crop failures and loss of yield

  food recalls

  food safety

  food shortages

  genetically modified organisms (GMOs)

  greenhouse gases

  municipal waste management

  natural selection

  pesticides

  rapid climate change

  seed production

  soil loss

  urban framing

  vertical farming as solution

  water wars

  agricultural runoff

  vertical farming and

  agrochemicals

  climate change and

  demand for produce free from

  and ecological disruption

  Allen, Will

  Anasazi and agriculture

  animal poultices

  animal feed

  postharvest plant material used as

  Anthony Hunt and Associates

  Antikythera Mechanism

  Apple Store (NYC)

  apples

  cultivation of

  architectural imperialism

  artemisinin

  fake

  aspirin

  asthma

  Aswan dam

  atomic bombs

  atrazine

  Australian Aborigines

  avocados, growing in tap water


  Ayurveda medical system

  Babylonians and agriculture

  Bacon, Francis

  Bangladesh, flooding in

  Bayer Company

  Bhutan

  biofuels

  biomes

  bioproductivity

  Black Death

  black water/grey water

  municipal waste management

  purification to drinking water

  Boone, Daniel

  Borneo

  rain forest ecosystem restoration

  Bosque Lluvioso rain forest (Costa Rica) ecosystem restoration

  Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Cornell University)

  Bradley, Bill

  Braungart, Michael

  Bronx Botanical Gardens (New York City)

  Bunshaft, Gordon

  calendars, development of

  carbon dioxide

  and coral reefs

  farms and forests sequestering

  Carnegie, Andrew

  Carson, Rachel

  Central Valley of California

  agricultural runoff

  failure of

  Central America

  and the development of agriculture

  native peoples, near extinction of

  Chernobyl (Ukraine)

  apparent ecosystem restoration

  China

  and the development of agriculture

  China State Construction Engineering Corporation

  Chinese proverb

  chlorophyll

  Cholera

  Chongming Island

  expansion of

  Chu, Steven

  Churchill, Winston

  cities

  bio-mimicking ecosystems

  and drinking water

  eco-city of tomorrow

  as “living organisms,”

  municipal waste management

  of the near future

  without waste

  See also urban life

  Civil War

  Clarke, Arthur C.

  Clean Water Act

  Clinton, Bill

  Collapse (Diamond)

  connectivity

  Copernicus

  coral reefs

  and rising sea surface temperatures

  corn (maize)

  cultivation of

  Ethanol

  milling

  Native Americans and

  storage of

  Costa Rica

  rain forest ecosystem restoration

  cotton crop

  Cradle to Cradle (McDonough)

  crop failures

  end of weather-related, vertical farms and

  crop production

  year-round, vertical farms and

  Croton Reservoir and aqueduct system (New York State)

  cyclones

  cyclospora

  Darfur

  Darwin, Charles

  DDT

  deforestation

  demilitarized zone (between North and South Korea)

  ecosystem restoration

  Den Bosch, Netherlands

  Development

  Diamond, Jared

  diarrheal diseases

  diazinon

  digoxin

  Dirksen, Everett

  diseases

  faecally transmitted infections

  garbage and waste

  gastrointestinal parasitic worm infections

  species, introduced infectious agents causing extinction of

  water parasites

  Drake, “Colonel” Edwin

  Drayton, William, Sr.

  droughts

  dung beetles (scarab beetles)

  dye chemistry

  and the commercial drug industry

  dynamite, invention of

  E. coli 0157:H7

  eco-city of tomorrow

  ecosystem restoration

  vertical farm and

  ecosystems

  ability to repair themselves

  agrochemicals and

  damage

  disruptions, agricultural runoff and

  environmental repair and food needs

  greenhouse gases

  natural selection

  rapid climate change

  recycling and

  soil loss

  symbiosis

  water wars

  See also global warming; internal combustion engine

  Eden Project (England)

  Egypt

  and agriculture

  the flow of the Nile

  Elliot, Ramblin’ Jack

  Emancipation Proclamation

  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

  environmental repair

  and food needs

  ETFE (ethylene tetrafluoroethylene)

  Ethanol

  EuroFresh Farms

  faecally transmitted infections

  farms

  carbon, sequestering

  farmers

  population of

  farming

  deforestation and

  external natural forces and

  hydroponic and aeroponic

  “organically grown” movement

  and pollution

  seed production

  urban framing

  weather-related crop failures

  feces

  faecally transmitted infections

  as fertilizer

  Fernandez, Dr. Facundo

  Fertile Crescent

  fertilizer

  agricultural runoff

  and ecosystem disruptions

  human feces as

  nitrogen fertilizer (ammonium nitrate)

  vertical farming and

  Finlayson, Bill

  fish and shell fish

  agricultural runoff and

  farming indoors

  floods

  Florida, produce from

  Florida Foundation Seed Producers, Inc.

  Fonda, Henry

  food

  recalls

  safety

  shortages

  spoilage

  Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008

  Food, Inc (film)

  Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

  food miles

  reduced by vertical farm

  food production

  terrorist activities and

  food safety and security

  vertical farming and

  forests

  carbon, sequestering

  deforestation

  renewing

  Ford, Henry

  Fortune magazine

  fossil fuels

  discovery of

  and global warming

  production of

  U.S. consumption of

  See also rapid climate change

  Franklin, Benjamin

  frog populations

  epidemics in

  fruits

  farming indoors

  Gaia hypothesis

  Galápagos Islands

  Gandhi, Mahatma

  garbage and waste

  and New York City

  vermin and diseases

  See also organic waste material

  gastrointestinal parasitic worm infections

  Genesis

  genetically modified organisms (GMOs)

  geothermal energy

  Gericke, Dr. William Frederick

 

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