Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week, TechCrunch ran my TC-1 about Bowery Farming. What began as a piece about a heartily financed New York startup ballooned ...

“Vertical farming” is a term coined by Columbia University professor of environmental health and microbiology Dickson Despommier to describe the concept of growing large amounts of food in urban ...

Dickson Despommier, emeritus professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University, is renowned for having developed the first models for large-scale indoor vertical farming. Despommier ...

In perhaps the most public airing of his views and ideas to date, Dickson Despommier wrote an op-ed for Sunday’s New York Times about his “vertical farms” concept. In February, Hamida Kinge conducted ...

The College of Science at Rochester Institute of Technology is sponsoring a presentation by Dickson Despommier, author of The City as Ecosystem. The lecture will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8, in ...

The way skeptics see it, Dickson Despommier has a lot of explaining to do: He’s got big plans for the future of farming. By 2050, the planet will have to feed three billion additional mouths, and ...

Dickson Despommier is the Professor of Public Health and Microbiology in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University in New York. He is ...