Bright, bright Melissa Feldman writes about Urban Ag. in the April 11 NY Times Mag.
Her piece Growth Spurt quotes BrightFarm's Benjamin Linsley,
“The rooftop business is not a passing trend but the beginning of a new approach to food production.”
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Showing posts with label rooftop. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Times Gets It
Bright, bright Melissa Feldman writes about Urban Ag. in the April 11 NY Times Mag.
Her piece Growth Spurt quotes BrightFarm's Benjamin Linsley,
“The rooftop business is not a passing trend but the beginning of a new approach to food production.”
Monday, April 19, 2010
60 kilowatt Green
Fast Company's May 2010 issue came in the mail and there is a nice sidebar showing a schematic of the Gotham Greens factory-roof farm complete with a 60 kilowatt solar array.
Highly-placed Brooklyn officials (actually a pal of my electrician) says this greenhouse farm and photovoltaic (PV) array will be on the roof of the
60 kW peak power might take about 6,000 square feet (about two tennis courts or about 75' by 75') of PV cells on average.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Greenpoint Gotham Greens
Our man in Havana ( actually a knowledgeable source at Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center ) tells us that Gotham Greens will be building a third of an acre hydroponic rooftop greenhouse with the design assistance of BrightFarm Systems, a NYC Building Integrated Agriculture (BIA) design firm.
The footprint is a nearly square 125' by 128' not counting the photovoltaic PV array and water supply pumping and storage cistern.
It is to be located on the roof of
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