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A restaurant in Chicago, Uncommon Grounds, grows organic produce on their roof and uses solar to heat 50% of their water while Lufa Farms in Montreal is building a a 31,000 square foot rooftop greenhouse. “Our goal simply is to be a neighborhood food source and raise the bar on the issue of traceability. [...] The Plantagon wants to put farming in the cities via the amazing Plantagon dome farm. With most people now living in cities, it makes sense to grow food locally in cities and not transport it. While I applaud the visionary scale of such a project, I’m always a little skeptical of massive city architecture, [...] I’m of two minds about such fanciful, creative ideas for urban architecture and urban gardening. Sure, the ideas are brilliant and imaginative, but will they get build? More to the point, should they get built? I mean, the only people who could work and live in such wondrous places are those who are already [...] |  | ||||
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