{"id":192,"date":"2005-09-29T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=192"},"modified":"2005-09-29T04:17:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T09:17:00","slug":"wired-news-no-green-acres-try-skyscrapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Wired News: No Green Acres? Try Skyscrapers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sep. 28, 2005 PT
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Tens of thousands of empty storage containers are stacked in towers along I-95 across from the harbor in Newark, New Jersey. They’re heaped there in perpetuity, too cheap to be shipped back to Asia but too expensive to melt down. <\/em><\/p>\n

Where many might see a pile of garbage, Lior Hessel sees, of all things, an organic farm. Those storage containers would be ideal housing for miniature farms, he believes, stacked one upon another like an agricultural skyscraper, all growing fresh organic produce for millions of wealthy consumers. And since the crops would be grown with artificial lighting, servers, sensors and robots, the cost of labor would consist of a single computer technician’s salary. “>Wired News: No Green Acres? Try Skyscrapers: “02:00 AM Sep. 28, 2005 PT
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Tens of thousands of empty storage containers are stacked in towers along I-95 across from the harbor in Newark, New Jersey. They’re heaped there in perpetuity, too cheap to be shipped back to Asia but too expensive to melt down. <\/em><\/p>\n

Where many might see a pile of garbage, Lior Hessel sees, of all things, an organic farm. Those storage containers would be ideal housing for miniature farms, he believes, stacked one upon another like an agricultural skyscraper, all growing fresh organic produce for millions of wealthy consumers. And since the crops would be grown with artificial lighting, servers, sensors and robots, the cost of labor would consist of a single computer technician’s salary. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Sep. 28, 2005 PT Tens of thousands of empty storage containers are stacked in towers along I-95 across from the harbor in Newark, New Jersey. They’re heaped there in perpetuity, too cheap to be shipped back to Asia but too expensive to melt down. Where many might see a pile of garbage, Lior Hessel sees, … Continue reading “Wired News: No Green Acres? Try Skyscrapers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-36","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":935,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=935","url_meta":{"origin":192,"position":0},"title":"Water storage for the suburbs","author":"Jorah","date":"December 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"From:\u00a0http:\/\/arewecrazyorwhat.net\/water-storage-for-a-suburbanite\/ Water storage is one of the least talked about subjects in the preparedness community \u2013 sure it\u2019s mentioned from time to time (\u201cBe sure and have a water storage\u201d or \u201crotate your water storage\u201d) but as far as step by step instructions or detailed examples, it\u2019s not a subject\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Water"","block_context":{"text":"Water","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?cat=83"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":127,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=127","url_meta":{"origin":192,"position":1},"title":"Hunter S. Thompson Commits Suicide – Feb 21, 2005 – E! Online News","author":"Jorah","date":"February 21, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"(damn) \"by Josh Grossberg Feb 21, 2005, 2:30 PM PT Hunter S. Thompson, the Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas author whose drug and alcohol-fueled diatribes against authority pioneered a new style of nonfiction writing called 'gonzo journalism' that shook the foundations of his profession and made him a counter-culture\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Post"","block_context":{"text":"Post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?cat=30"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":769,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=769","url_meta":{"origin":192,"position":2},"title":"My third Toastmasters speech: A moonlit highway long ago","author":"Jorah","date":"August 30, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Below is my third Toastmasters speech, given as my entry in a humor contest on August 28. I was made ineligible for the contest because I went over the time limit of seven minutes, but I count it as a success because people did laugh, and I did manage to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Toastmasters"","block_context":{"text":"Toastmasters","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?cat=62"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}