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Sustainability, collaboration and creativity are at the basis of the changes currently being experienced by our society. Since 2008, Defiant Imagination has been looking at how these concepts are being applied to different areas of our daily life: urbanism, food, the economy, social media, and more.
Its author, Flavie Halais, is a Vancouver-based freelance journalist.-
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Vertical farms
New York magazine asked four architecture firms to come up with their plans for a deserted block in the heart of Manhattan. One of them designed a vertical farm, a concept that has been publicized since at least 2005. Vertical farms are ambitious projects but would bring sustainable agriculture right into the city, thereby solving a number of environmental problems such as the cost and greenhouse-gas emissions caused by food transportation.
To know more about vertical farms, visit www.verticalfarm.com and TreeHugger.