permaculture

[Paul Cross <charybda@newmex.com>]

Aquaponics  is often integrated into vertical farming designs. If anyone 
is interested in seeing the current state of "vertical farming," there 
is a great resource now online from a conference in September.

Leaders from all over the world in vertical farming gathered on 
September 26 2012 at the University of Maryland for the Challenges In 
Vertical Farming workshop. Online you can find 18 videos of the talks, 
each 20 - 30 minutes long. I've watched 9 of them thus far, and there is 
no mention of permaculture at all. But I have found all of the videos to 
be interesting. It is an extreme focus on technology and they are 
talking about megawatts of power to grow food.

Go to youtube and type CIVF2012 in the search box to watch the videos.