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SCC #SustainableChat:

Urban Agriculture and Vertical Farming

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Urban Agriculture and Vertical Farming

To feed the populations of our expanding cities sustainably and increase in urban

agriculture and vertical farming is vital. As an industry this is just beginning to

take off. Many models and systems are emerging, but financing and

commerciality remains problematic.

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#SustainableChat Webinar: Moderator

Moderator:

David Thorpe, Special Consultant Sustainable Cities Collective, Author

Twitter: @DavidKThorpe

David is Special Consultant of this website. He's

author of Energy Management in Buildings, Energy

Management in Industry, Sustainable Transport

Fuels, Solar Technology, Sustainable Home

Refurbishment, Solar Photovoltaics Business

Briefing, The One Planet Life, and much more.

He's also a novelist, script and comics writer,

journalist, and editor. He was for 13 years news

editor of Energy & Environmental Management

magazine, & is director of Cyberium, a media

company. Amongst his novels is Hybrids about

teenagers in a terror-filled near-future world

afflicted by a pandemic that causes people to

merge with frequently-used technology.

#SustainableChat Webinar: Panelists

Henry Gordon-Smith

Founder, Agritecture.com

Regional Manager, North America, Association for Vertical Farming

Twitter: @AVerticalFarm

Henry is a sustainability strategist

focused on urban agriculture, water

issues, and emerging technologies.

Four years ago, Henry launched the

blog Agritecture.com to share his

passion and vision of buildings that

grow food. Now, Henry consults

schools and startups on how to

integrate hydroponics into their

buildings and programs; Henry also

manages the Association for Vertical

Farming in North America.

#SustainableChat Webinar: Panelists

Registered architect and Building Integrated

Agriculture specialist, educated at Cambridge,

Cardiff and UCL, with broad practical experience

from 10 years in practice at Foster + Partners,

Wilkinson Eyre, John McAslan + Partners and

PLP Architecture.

Years of dedicated research on resource

constriction, climate change and the food system

followed, which culminated in the founding of A&f

(Architecture & food) following a commission by

Argent LLP in November 2012.

Oscar Rodriguez,

Director Architecture & food (A&f)

#SustainableChat Webinar: Panelists

Milan Kluko,

Founder and President at Green Spirit Farms LLC; President

Fountainhead Engineering Ltd.

Twitter: @GreenSpirit

Milan operates Green Spirit Farms (GSF) a sustainable vertical farm

founded on 11-11-11 in New Buffalo, MI. As President he has drawn on

over 30 years of my project based work primarily in the environmental

and engineering services sector when developing our approach to

local, sustainable vertical farming. GSF working with a local partner

has developed a second vertical farm, the 1st in Detroit, Michigan

called Artesian Farms which started initial operations on Earth Day

2015. GSF is currently working on a third vertical farm partnering with

KISRA a faith-based organization located in Charleston, West Virginia.

Milan is an (international) multi-patent holder of a biomass (renewable

energy) production system that fires densified biomass in existing

coal-fired boilers and have worked in the renewable energy industry

for over 20 years.

Making Cities Smarter

SCC #SustainableChat:

Urban Agriculture and Vertical Farming