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Jun 10, 2010 Stephen Kennedy Smith on Valcent's vertical farming. launch.org Stephen Kennedy Smith of Valcent Americas discusses Valcent VertiCrop vertical farming system during Launch: Water at NASA Kennedy Space Center, March 17, 2010. |
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Apr 22, 2010 Coming Up: Farms On World Metro News, London Elisabeth Braw The monkeys at England's Paignton Zoo love their fresh, flavorful lettuce. What the monkeys don't know is that they're agricultural revolutionaries:
Their food comes from Europe's first operating vertical farm... |
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Apr 10, 2010 Vertical Farming WUSA Channel 9 (WUSA) -- By the year 2050, 80% of the world will live in urban areas. But how will they eat? There's one cutting edge technology that could make the difference. (click the link to view the full article) |
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Nov 23, 2009 TIME Selects VertiCrop as a Top Invention of 2009 TIME Magazine Jeffrey Kluger Real estate - the one thing we're not making more of. That might be good for landlords, but not for the world's farmers, who have finite cropland to feed a finite world population. The answer; to build up by farming vertically...
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Nov 20, 2009 Innovations - Up on the Farm Conservation Magazine Jessica Leber Growing 11,000 heads of lettuce in a space the size of five parking spotsVertical farming has generated plenty of buzz as a way for cities to eat sustainably, but little practical progress has been made---until now. Valcent Products Inc. has developed a vertical farming syst... |
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Oct 10, 2009 Dave Egbert's Living Green Nationally Syndicated CBS Radio Show. Please find Chris Bradford's extensive live interview on the CBS nationally syndicated Living Green radio show hosted by Dave Egbert which aired on Saturday Oct. 10th. Please click the link to listen to Chris Bradford's radio interview with Dave Egbert discussing Valcent's V... |
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Oct 05, 2009 New food system unveiled in Devon Smallholder Stephan Ivall A Launceston-based organisation has unveiled an innovative product that looks set to revolutionise the way food is grown at a special ceremony at Paignton Zoo in Devon.
Cornwall's Valcent Products (eu) Ltd developed the new generation sustainable hydroponic system in a b... |
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Oct 01, 2009 Broadcaster launches zoo hydroponics project Herald Express BROADCASTER John Craven has launched a pioneering grow-your-own project at Paignton Zoo.
The BBC Countryfile and former Newsround presenter praised the pioneering scheme which means the zoo can grow its own vegetables and herbs, saving thousands of pounds a year...
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Sep 29, 2009 First Sustainable Hydroponics System for a Zoo or Botanical Garden Installed at Paignton Zoo Zoo and Aquarium Visitor Philip Knowling Paignton, UK - Television presenter John Craven, of BBC Countryfile, is to open an innovative new plant growing system at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park.
The VertiCrop sustainable hydroponics installation is the first of its kind in Europe and the first in a zoo or botan... |
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Sep 27, 2009 Rooftop garden act makes life in the city bearable New Straits Times Marc Lourdes BY the year 2050, there will probably be more than nine billion people on the planet.
Eighty per cent will reside in urban centres. It's quite scary when you think about it in the context of Kuala Lumpur.
Consider the already atrocious traffic jams, population density... |
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Sep 26, 2009 Zoo making history --- with a little police help Herald Express PAIGNTON Zoo was today unveiling a ground-breaking project which could help feed not only its animals but ease food shortages around the world.
The zoo is making high-tech horticultural history with the installation of the first of a new generation of innovative plant gro... |
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Aug 17, 2009 U.K. Zoo Explores Vertical Farming for a New Angle on Animal Feed Reuters Leslie Guevarra |
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Aug 05, 2009 Valcent's First Commercial VertiCrop(TM) System Now Operational CNN Money ...Constructed as a joint venture with Paignton Zoological and Environmental Park in South Devon, the final touches to the system have now been completed and the VertiCrop(TM) planted out with its first crop of lettuce. |
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Jul 20, 2009 Mid Atlantic Grower July 2009 Eco-friendly vertical growing system increases returns.
Valcent Products is focused on the rollout of its fully commercialized VertiCrop Technology... |
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Jul 15, 2009 Vertical Farming, Enough to Feed a Zoo Celsias.com Jonathan Williams ...Valcent Products has partnered with the UK's Paignton Zoo to install their Verticrop growing system. Verticrop is a vertical farming system that offers both economical and environmental incentives which will help to cut back the zoo's overall food costs... |
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Jun 23, 2009 Vertical farm could feed animals at UK zoo Cleantech Group LLC's Cleantech.com Emma Ritch Valcent Products claims its pilot project could produce food starting in September using 5 percent of the water of traditional farming with 20 times the yield.
Vancouver, Canada-based Valcent Products (OTC: VCTPF) is completing the initial pilot plant for its vertical fa... |
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