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Farming is very bad utilization of square footage as far as economic activity is concerned.
The real estate is simply too expensive to just make it produce crops.
Notice how the people who always advocate for this kind of thing are not thinking about economic viability of such projects. It is always some hippie dippie ecology professor.
If vertical farming in NYC (or any other city) was viable, you'd see these projects being financed by developers.
It's all about embracing new ideas and making them work. Not many people in the US are ready for that. Old habits die hard here.
The US has been always been at the forefront of such technology, and NYC is where it all started. A few years ago, Amazon was involved in starting an urban farm in a high rise building in Brooklyn. They claimed they could grow over 200,000 pounds of vegetables a year. I don't know what became of it, but there are other similar projects in NYC.
The big problem is making it work financially. I would think that well located office buildings in Manhattan would have more valuable uses, particularly residential.
Think outside the box
It all starts with a hypothesis
The basis of science
It can be translated into economics
As long as there is cooperation
A lot of our current issues are primarily because people refuse to cooperate
Every cause has an effect
So we have to ask ourselves
What makes people refuse to cooperate
Solving problems are not easy but they're not difficult
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"The man who sleeps on the floor, can never fall out of bed." -Martin Lawrence
Think outside the box
It all starts with a hypothesis
The basis of science
It can be translated into economics
As long as there is cooperation
A lot of our current issues are primarily because people refuse to cooperate
Every cause has an effect
So we have to ask ourselves
What makes people refuse to cooperate
Solving problems are not easy but they're not difficult
People cooperate all the time.
If the economics work out, people self-organize around the idea.
A corporation is merely a group of people trying to achieve a common goal.
People cooperate all the time.
If the economics work out, people self-organize around the idea.
A corporation is merely a group of people trying to achieve a common goal.
No, that's called a cooperative.
cor·po·ra·tion
/ˌkôrpəˈrāSHən/
noun
a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.
co·op·er·a·tive
/kōˈäp(ə)rədiv,kōˈäpəˌrādiv/
adjective
involving mutual assistance in working toward a common goal.
"every member has clearly defined tasks in a cooperative enterprise"
noun
a farm, business, or other organization which is owned and run jointly by its members, who share the profits or benefits.
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"The man who sleeps on the floor, can never fall out of bed." -Martin Lawrence
Not the modern legal definition, as in a corporate body - a group of people acting together.
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