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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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