South African Boer goats chews on tough weeds to clear a steep hillside lot in downtown
Los Angeles. In the future, maybe the livestock will be inside the skyscrapers. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
Instead of spending all that energy to plant and plow fields and then truck the produce from the country to the city, why not grow food right in a city, in a glass tower with different floors for different crops and livestock? A Columbia University professor tells Scientific American that such "vertical farming" would bring fresh food to urban dwellers with less fuel expended on shipping, and would allow farmers to heat or cool the environment as needed to grow crops all year round.'
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