The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century

　　在人口破70億的今天，我們資源足夠，卻分配不均
　　這不是科幻電影，而是真正能夠實現的目標
　　未來，我們有更好的辦法來解決生存問題

　　◎在都市裡面怎麼興建農場？
　　◎餿水廚餘怎會是重要資源？
　　◎冰冷的高樓大廈如何全數變成綠建築？

　　你有沒有想像過這樣的世界──每個城市都有自己在地的糧食來源，以最安全的方式種植，沒有浪費任何一滴水、一絲能源，而且只要乘坐電梯就可以前往販賣天然食品的商店……

　　美國哥倫比亞大學戴波米耶教授早在十幾年前就開始著手解決美國糧食、水資源及能源危機，他不但想得很遠大，也想得很「高」。戴波米耶的神來之筆──「垂直農場」的概念，鼓舞了全世界的科學家、建築師以及政治家。如今，戴波米耶在這本開創性的著作中闡釋垂直農場將如何影響未來的世世代代、改變世界的面貌。

　　他將帶領讀者進入不可思議的垂直農場之旅，這一棟棟充滿水果與蔬菜的建築物，將成為在地的食物來源，供應整座城市所需。

　　垂直農場將為我們帶來何種益處：
　　一年365天、每天24小時都生產食物。
　　保護糧食作物不受不可預期及有害的天候所影響。
　　回收利用室內環境的水。
　　提供在地工作機會。
　　減少殺蟲劑、化學肥料及除草劑的用量。
　　大幅降低對化石燃料的依賴。
　　減少因為運送或儲存造成的糧食損失。
　　遏止農藥逕流。

★本書中譯版《垂直農場：城市發展新趨勢》由馬可孛羅出版。

"The vertical farm is a world-changing innovation whose time has come. Dickson Despommier's visionary book provides a blueprint for securing the world's food supply and at the same time solving one of the gravest environmental crises facing us today."--Sting

Imagine a world where every town has their own local food source, grown in the safest way possible, where no drop of water or particle of light is wasted, and where a simple elevator ride can transport you to nature's grocery store - imagine the world of the vertical farm.

When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big - he thought up. Despommier's stroke of genius, the vertical farm, has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Despommier explains how the vertical farm will have an incredible impact on changing the face of this planet for future generations.

Despommier takes readers on an incredible journey inside the vertical farm, buildings filled with fruits and vegetables that will provide local food sources for entire cities.

Vertical farms will allow us to:
- Grow food 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Protect crops from unpredictable and harmful weather
- Re-use water collected from the indoor environment
- Provide jobs for residents
- Eliminate use of pesticides, fertilizers, or herbicides
- Drastically reduce dependence on fossil fuels
- Prevent crop loss due to shipping or storage
- Stop agricultural runoff

Vertical farms can be built in abandoned buildings and on deserted lots, transforming our cities into urban landscapes which will provide fresh food grown and harvested just around the corner. Possibly the most important aspect of vertical farms is that they can built by nations with little or no arable land, transforming nations which are currently unable to farm into top food producers. In the tradition of the bestselling The World Without Us, The Vertical Farm is a completely original landmark work destined to become an instant classic

作者簡介

迪克森．戴波米耶博士 (DR. DICKSON DESPOMMIER)

　　在美國哥倫比亞大學環境衛生科學系教授微生物與公共衛生達三十八年之久，曾經獲得六次最佳教師獎，並榮獲2003年美國醫學院學生協會的金蘋果教師獎。他的垂直農場研究獲得許多頂尖媒體的專題報導，包括英國國家廣播電台（BBC）、法國國家電視台、美國有線電視新聞網（CNN）、《柯伯特報告》（The Colbert Report）與《今夜秀》（The Tonight Show）等，在美國紐約時報、時代雜誌、科學人及華盛頓郵報也都有詳盡的報導。近來他也受邀在「科技、娛樂與設計大會」（TED Conference）、Pop! Tech及全球科學饗宴（World Science Festival）上發表演說，並接受中國、印度、墨西哥、約旦、巴西、加拿大、及南韓等國政府邀請，協助處理環境問題。他曾經受邀在許多全國性及國際性專業年會上，以及在哈佛、麻省理工學院等知名大學發表主題演說。他是美國芝加哥科技博物館列名的創見家之一，目前居住在美國紐澤西州的佛德里郡。

　　作者官網：www.verticalfarm.com/

DR. DICKSON DESPOMMIER spent thirty eight years as a professor of microbiology and public health in environmental health sciences at Columbia, where he has won the Best Teacher award six times, and received the national 2003 American Medical Student Association Golden Apple Award for teaching. His work on vertical farms has been featured on such top national media as BBC, French National television, CNN, The Colbert Report, and The Tonight Show, as well as in full-length articles in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Scientific American, and The Washington Post. He recently spoke at the TED Conference, Pop!Tech and the World Science Festival and has been invited by the governments of China, India, Mexico, Jordan, Brazil, Canada, and Korea to work on environmental problems. He has been invited to speak at numerous national and international professional annual meetings as a keynote speaker, and at universities, including Harvard and MIT. He is one of the visionaries featured at the Chicago Museum of Science and Technology. Despommier lives in Fort Lee, New Jersey.