Planning gardens and cities? For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

As Inc.com's Bill Saperita reports, a new innovation, controlled environment agriculture,

is poised to shake up farming. By stacking greenhouses vertically and abandoned buildings,

entrepreneurs are growing food in less time, with higher yields using 95% less water, no pesticides,

and a dramatically shorter supply chain.

As a result, vertical farms can be up to 400 times more productive than traditional ones.

This approach can help mitigate environmental problems like pesticides and water usage,

and could reduce the number of food deserts, you know, the miles of urban sprawl with

no affordable fruit and

vegetables. It could even bridge the divide between farms and cities. Farms are currently operating

in South Kearney, New Jersey, and warehouses that stood empty for years. In Scripture, God shows

his affinity for both gardens and cities, and innovations like this reflect how God made people

to think. It also undermines climate anxiety,

the kind made popular by Paul Ehrlich that treats people as problems to be solved.

He predicted millions would starve.

Instead, here people are, once again, innovating and solving problems.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.