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How Not To Farm This Is Why Agricultural Runoff Water: Part I Environmental Degradation Leads To Health Risks http://www.fao.org/ag/magazine/0304sp1.htm Many Tropical Diseases Are Transmitted At The Agricultural Interface Malaria Hookworm

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How Not To Farm

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This Is Why

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Water: Part I Agricultural Runoff

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Environmental Degradation Leads To Health Risks

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http://www.fao.org/ag/magazine/0304sp1.htm

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Many Tropical Diseases Are Transmitted At The Agricultural Interface

Malaria Hookworm Geohelminths (ascaris, trichuris) Schistosomiasis Filariasis Nipha

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A Very Brief History Of Farming

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Human Evolution

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Early Wheat Farming Sites

The Fertile Crescent

Einkorn Wheat*

*double the seeds, needs watering.

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Bhutanese Buckwheat Farmers (Circa 2003) Bhutanese Buckwheat Farmers (Circa 2003)

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Global Totals*: 71 79 91 101 109 125 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000

Global Agricultural Production Index

Source: FAOSTAT

*Net Production Index Number

http://geocompendium.grid.unep.ch/data_sets/land/reg_land_ds.htm

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40% Of All Grains Are Grown For Animal Feed

http://www.gov.on.ca/OMAFRA/english/livestock/swine/facts/info_qs_species.htm

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Agricultural Land Abuses

Pesticides Herbicides Fertilizers

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World Pesticide Use (1,000 metric tons) http://www.pan-uk.org/briefing/SIDA_FIL/Chap1.htm#_ftnref1

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http://www.tfi.org/Statistics/worldfertuse.asp * * Thousand metric tons

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Originally enacted under the administration of Gerald Ford in 1977 and amended under the administration of George W. Bush in 2002

Clean Water Act

See: http://www.epa.gov/region5/water/cwa.htm

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To get a new drug approved by the FDA industry needs to fill up a good sized room with reports and tests proving it does more good than harm. To get an agro-industry product taken off the market,

  • ne needs to fill a good sized room with reports

that prove it does more harm than good. To get a new drug approved by the FDA industry needs to fill up a good sized room with reports and tests proving it does more good than harm. To get an agro-industry product taken off the market,

  • ne needs to fill a good sized room with reports

that prove it does more harm than good.

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http://www.fao.org/desertification/default.asp?lang=en

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Global Density Of Livestock

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Global Deforestation (%) 1990-1995

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Human Degraded Land (%)

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Land With Erosion and Salinity Risk (%)

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http://www.fao.org/desertification/default.asp?lang=en

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Case History: The Mississippi River Flood Of 1993

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50 Years Of Agricultural Abuse*

Pesticides Herbicides Fertilizers

*chickens coming home to roost

50 Years Of Agricultural Abuse*

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Location Of Dams On Tributaries Of The Kansas River

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Weather Conditions

This pattern prevailed for 2 months (June & July)

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1992 1993

What A Difference A Year Makes

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1973 1989 2003

Mississippi Delta

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People and the Flood:

Nearly fifty people died as a result of the flooding, 26,000 were evacuated and over 56,000 homes were damaged. Economic losses that are directly attributable to the flooding totaled $10-12 billion. Indirect losses in the form

  • f lost wages and production can not be accurately

calculated.

The consequences of flooding were determined by land use patterns.

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Welcome To The Dead Zone

The Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone and Red Tides

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http://www.savesfbay.org/campaigns/fillpollution/runoff.cfm

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Imagination Leads To Reality

Flight and on to the moon, Mars, and beyond The telephone, the cell phone Satellites of all kinds Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope Microscope, atomic force field microscope Computer, DNA as a programming substance The Internet Genetic engineering, altering the course of evolution

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Imagine, if you will, a vertical farm

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Imagine all the good that will come from it

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Advantages Of Vertical Farming

  • Year-round crop production
  • No weather related crop failures due to droughts, floods
  • Eliminates agricultural runoff
  • Converts black water to potable water
  • Greatly reduces the incidence of many infectious diseases
  • Adds energy back to the grid via methane generation
  • Dramatically reduces fossil fuel use (no tractors, plows, etc.)
  • Converts abandoned urban properties into food production
  • Sustainability for urban centers
  • Creates new employment opportunities
  • Returns farm land to nature, restoring ecosystem services
  • Reduces the incidence of armed conflict over natural

resources, such as water and land for agriculture

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A Vertical Farm*

* not exactly what I imagined

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Virtual Vertical Farm*

*www.verticalfarm.com

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The Vertical Farm: A possible Solution

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http://www.urbanecology.org/

Vibrant, successful cities are not only possible but necessary for the health of society and our planet. Urban Ecology plans and designs cities that sustain the people, natural resources, and economy necessary for everyone to thrive.

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Advantages Of Vertical Farming

Adds energy back to the grid via methane generation

August 14th August 15th “What A Difference A Day Makes”

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Ecosystem Services*

* from: Living In The Environment Thompson Brooks/Cole Pubs. 2004

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Returns farm land to nature, restoring ecosystem services Advantages Of Vertical Farming

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Vertical New York City

Photo: NASA

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Kristin Anderson Nicola Areshenko Alan Brown Jennifer Buskey Amanda Colligan Marisa Dahlman Catherine Dell’Orto Catherine Tuglus Steve Chen, technical advisor

Medical Ecology Class Of 2003

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How It Could Work

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Bioremediation

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Energy Considerations

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Methane Digester

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Original Design by Andrew Kranis, Columbia University School of Architecture 2003

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A lunar colony

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Schematic for advanced life-support system

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Or a colony on Mars

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Components for a Mars colony

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So, What’s For Dinner?

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Anything you want

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Any Time You Want It

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Any Where In The World Any Where In The World

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Or In The Universe