Ecofriend

Eco Gadgets: Solar- and wind-powered vertical farm. Inka Biospheric Systems has developed a completely integrated, closed loop “micro-farm” that runs on solar and wind energy and can be used to grow grasses, fruits and even vegetables on a...

Eco Factor: Vertical garden designed in London covers 8-stories and is composed of 12,000 plants. What started as a simple plant suspension that ran its roots into a fish tank in his bedroom wall has turned into a profession for Patrick Blanc....

Eco Factor: Vertical farm feeds animals, saves water. Paington Zoo Environmental Park in Devon is house to the world’s first vertical farm within a zoo. The VertiCrop Garden, as the system has been named, would provide fresh crops for the zoo...

Eco Factor: Urban greenhouse aims to bring food production to cities. Presently most of the food that is consumed by the world is grown in villages. Research predicts that by the year 2050, over 80% of the population of the world will start living.

Eco Factor: Portable vertical gardens for indoor farming. With the land available for farming being used to develop skyscrapers, environmentalists are of the opinion that in a couple of decades millions would starve to death if something serious...

Eco Factor: Skyscraper with a rooftop-based ecosystem. Whenever it comes to vertical farming, people mostly envision high-rise buildings where veggies are grown at different levels. Architectenbureau Paul de Ruiter have a different thought to...

Eco Factor: Self-sufficient eco-system to solve food crisis. Researchers are of the opinion that the exponential growth in human population and the lack of land available for farming will have catastrophic effects on humanity, and if new farming...

Eco Factor: Sustainable skyscraper for Mexico generates solar electricity. Designed to bring Mexico on the green map of the world, Jorge Hernandez de la Garza Architects have designed a skyscraper that will not only be off-grid, but will also grow.

The debate has raged on for weeks and while the initial thoughts were that we were heading towards something that was a substantial concept that would feed millions of hungry mouths across the planet, it seems the concept has only lost out with time..

So is vertical farming a fancy concept that would actually never amount to anything substantial or would it actually be the idea that provides the majority of world food five decades from now? That is the question we are looking at and the world is...