City Agriculture – January 21, 2021, the Happy Inauguration Issue

A rooftop forest for Rotterdam
https://www.mvrdv.nl/news/2603/with-construction-almost-complete-depot-boijmans-van-beuningen-prepares-for-preview-opening-in-september

https://www.mvrdv.nl/news/2652/depot-boijmans-van-beuningen-rooftop-forest-awarded-rooftop-award-2020
https://inhabitat.com/an-award-winning-forest-tops-the-worlds-first-publicly-accessible-art-depot/

Inside Singapore’s huge bet on vertical farming by Megan Tatum
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/13/1009497/singapore-vertical-farming-food-security/ (subscribers only)

Evanlee Organics
http://www.evanleeorganics.com

Hothouse – “an arched greenhouse as part of London Design Festival, which is filled with plants that it predicts will soon be able to grow outdoors in the UK due to climate change.”
https://www.dezeen.com/2020/09/14/studio-weave-hothouse-greenhouse-london-design-festival/
https://inhabitat.com/hothouse-installation-grows-tropical-plants-in-the-middle-of-london/

Researchers granted $1 Million to advance urban agriculture
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2020/11/30/ub-researchers-awarded-1-million-grant-to-advance-urban-agriculture

This 2-Acre Vertical Farm Out-Produces 720 Acre ‘Flat Farms’
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/20/this-2-acre-vertical-farm-out-produces-750-acre-flat-farms/
https://inhabitat.com/is-high-yield-vertical-farming-the-future-of-agriculture/

Rehabbing Quito, Ecuador’s bullring stadium for food production
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2020/12/15/reimagining-a-bullring-for-food-production

Freight Farms shipping container growing systems partners with Arcadia Partnership for clean energy to power food growing
https://www.freightfarms.com/news/arcadia-partnership
Editorial Comment: InFarm is the only stand-alone growing system I know of which has included energy and resource efficiency from the beginning. A few years ago, I had the chance to ask one of the founders of Freight Farms about whether they had thought of energy efficiency as they started and his answer was no. Good to see that they are now stepping up
https://www.infarm.de
https://www.fastcompany.com/3058155/at-this-supermarket-the-produce-section-grows-its-own-produce
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/27/growing-without-farming/

And a research project for net zero farming:
University of Toronto Scarborough & Centennial College developing Canada’s first net zero vertical farm
https://utsc.utoronto.ca/news-events/our-community/u-t-scarborough-centennial-college-partnering-develop-canadas-first-net-zero-vertical
https://www.treehugger.com/resilience/university-toronto-planning-net-zero-vertical-farm.html

Mapping U.S. Food System Localization Potential: The Impact of Diet on Foodsheds
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b07582#.X92mS

Paris approves plan to make Champs Elysees into a garden
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/10/paris-approves-plan-to-turn-champs-elysees-into-extraordinary-garden-anne-hidalgo
hat tip: Gil Friend

Calculating the carbon footprint of vertical farming and traditional farming
https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2021/1/20/calculating-the-carbon-footprint-of-vertical-farming-and-traditional-farming

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