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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
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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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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 Pumpkin genome sequenced (SciDaily) The Next Big Thing(s) Seeds and Chips A Farm Grows in the City (WSJ) Plenty Square Roots Infarm Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center (Wikipedia) Letters read on Urban Agriculture 27 Send your questions and comments to urbanag@microbe.tv

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. 
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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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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.
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