Annotated Bibliography
Natalie Grimes
Vertical Farming - A new form of agriculture that was brainstormed by a professor from Columbia University who goes by the name of the name of Dickson Despommier. He believes transforming skyscrapers into farms would help reduce the impact of global warming.
Despommier, Dickson Dr. The Vertical Farm. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2010. Print.
Dr. Despommier, a Columbia professor demonstrates and explains how vertical farming would be established in the future. It paints a picture of what the food system would be like in the year 2050. It is estimated by that time 80% of earth’s population will depend on urban centers.
Chamberlin, Lisa. “Sky farming: Turning Skyscrapers into Crop Farms”. New York Magazine 1 April
2007. Print.
This article gets more into detail about this project. It gives visual images, gives a list of operations and a full description of how these buildings will be designed. It makes observations of how mostly the cities are the most stable to obtain these vertical crops.
Walsh, Bryan. “Vertical Farming”. TIME 11Dec 2008. Print.
This TIME article further goes into the financial part of building thee crops. Construction costs and energy costs would be more costly than traditional crops. A question was asked “Why would we want to build skyscrapers filled with lettuce when we’ve been farming on ground for 10, 000 years?” The answer was that the population is growing. 6.8 billion Is the population number right now? It is estimated that in the year 2050 it will reach to 9 billion. There’s also a possibility that if we don’t take action on this project we could run out of soil and water.
Nelson, Bryan. “Could Vertical Farming be the Future?”. MSNBC 12 Dec 2007.Print.
Utah State University researchers have developed ways to withheld heat in the ground and to help the growth of certain foods by season. The cost of food will rise because of the environment it’ll be stored in and the way the crop plants will be operating. Even though transportation costs will be cut the amount of money to pay for the food will increase.
Venkataraman, Bina. “Country, the city version: Farms in the sky Gain New Interest”. New York Times 15 July 2008:Print.
Scott M. Stringer who is the Manhattan borough president agreed with the idea. Even thought he say we don’t have much vacant land sky is the limit in Manhattan. These structures are built to feed 50,000 people. Even though everyone is excited for this new there is still a lot of research to be done.
Despommier, Dickson Dr. Vertical Farm 14 Oct 2010. YouTube.Web.
In this video is dickson despommier himself who is also the author of the book "The Vertical Farm". He gives a breif expanation of vertical farming and this video also gives a visual demonstration of how the crops and buildings would be made and establsihed.
1)I believe the sources that are listed to support your research essay is reliable. I know they are reliable because they are sources from the New York Times, MSNBC, and an article, and it is unlikely that sources coming from newpapers are not reliable.
ReplyDelete2)Just by looking at the titles alone I know it is related to the topic. All the titles have the words have words like verticle, farming, and skyscrapers in them.
3)Since the topic is related to global warming, i would suggest more articles about global warming that discusses the ways we can better it, and get evidence from that article on how plants that are thousands of feet in the sky would better global warming.
4)The works' citied doesnt seem to match exactly with the examples of cited work that is on.
http://library.laguardia.edu/research/mla3
5)I beleive the topic is an interesting one to research. The epidemic of global warming scares are increasing, so whatever ideas that will lead the fight against global warming is important. Society is already trying to create new ways to be more enviromentally friendly and if farming on top of skyscrapers benefit it, then it is important to me. Being that I live in a city with many skyscrapers
I think you have a pretty interesting topic and the information you have so far come from reliable and solid sources. You have to keep in mind that many people are going to disagree with you. Do not limit yourself to these six sources. Have to make sure you show more facts such as experiments or research results rather than opinion to prove your point. It's going to be harder for anyone outthere to argue against real numbers.
ReplyDeleteYou have a good variety of sources that all look reliable. It is immediately obvious that all your sources are closely related to your topic. The one suggestion I would make would be to maybe find that current status of vertical farming. are there any current examples of these ideas actually in use? Also, are there any people opposing vertical farming? At the least, it would be interesting to hear those viewpoints even if you don't agree with them.
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, I think this will make a very compelling essay. this is a subject that will probably become important to us all in the future.