Episode 96: Dick Despommier discusses vertical farming and fly fishing

STEM-Talk

Dawn Kernagis and Ken Ford

Natural Sciences, Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Alternative Health, Science

4.7 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Today we have part two of our interview with Dr. Dickson Despommier, a microbiologist and ecologist who is the emeritus professor of public and environmental health at Columbia University. Today’s episode focuses on vertical farming, a concept that Dick and his students came up with in 1999. When Dick’s book “Vertical Farms: Feeding the World in the 21st Century” came out in 2010, there were no vertical farms in the world. Today, there are vertical farms throughout the U.S. and around the globe. Part one of our interview, episode 95, covered Dick’s nearly 30 years of research into intracellular parasitism and his focus onTrichinella spiralis, one of the world’s largest intracellular parasites. Dick is the author of five books, including “People, Parasites and Plowshares.” His most recent book, “Waist Deep in Water,” is a memoir of his life-long love of fly fishing, a topic we had so much fun discussing with Dick that we touch on it in today’s episode as well as in part one of our interview with Dick.

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0:26.6	Hello, Dawn, great to be here today.
0:30.6	So today we have part two of our interview with Dr. Dixon de Pommier, a microbiologist and ecologist who is Emeritus Professor of Public
0:38.9	and Environmental Health at Columbia University.
0:41.7	Part one of our interview with Dick focused on his nearly 30 years of research into
0:45.6	intracellular parasitism, especially Trichinellus spiralis, one of the world's largest intracellular
0:51.3	parasites.
0:52.3	So our discussion today centers on vertical farming,
0:54.6	which is a concept that Dick and his students came up with in 1999, and when his book,
0:59.1	Vertical Farms, Feeding the World in the 21st Century, came out in 2010. There were no vertical
1:04.0	farms in the world, and today there are vertical farms throughout the U.S. and around the globe.
1:08.3	But before we get to part two of our interview with Dick, we have some housekeeping to take
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