Comments on: Gordon Graff’s Skyfarm for Toronto http://inhabitat.com/gordon-graffs-skyfarm-for-toronto/ Green design & eco innovation for a better world Sun, 19 May 2013 18:10:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: gelmibson http://inhabitat.com/gordon-graffs-skyfarm-for-toronto/comment-page-1/#comment-304023 gelmibson Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:02:24 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/?p=30603#comment-304023 Ok. Lets bring the talk of skyfarms down to earth. First off, most of the articles are talking like this project and others like it (such as the dragonfly in NYC) are done deals or actually in the planning stage. Congrats to these students of architecture an d planning for having insight and starting dialog on issues of urban farming and food supply. At this stage that is all it, pipe dreams and enlightenment. Do not mean to be rude, but how many buildings has this Graff guy built? Does anyone have an idea the scope of financing this building would cost, using all unproven building technology. Do people understand the amount of natural waste needed to create this much methane gas? You need certain kinds of waste too, not just "waste" or organic scraps. I know this makes me sound like a naysayer, but I am so not. I believe in hydroponics,aquaponics and urban farming. What I do have a problem with is someone drawing some cad designs of a slick tower with two pages of hypothetical musings on how the buildings mechanical system will run, sending this off to the National and local dailies creating media buzz over a couple homework assignments. Get serious, reclaim a couple of abandoned industrial sites and prove your technology and system works. Then we can take people seriously and get the right people and financing behind these projects. Ok. Lets bring the talk of skyfarms down to earth. First off, most of the articles are talking like this project and others like it (such as the dragonfly in NYC) are done deals or actually in the planning stage. Congrats to these students of architecture an d planning for having insight and starting dialog on issues of urban farming and food supply. At this stage that is all it, pipe dreams and enlightenment.
Do not mean to be rude, but how many buildings has this Graff guy built? Does anyone have an idea the scope of financing this building would cost, using all unproven building technology.
Do people understand the amount of natural waste needed to create this much methane gas? You need certain kinds of waste too, not just “waste” or organic scraps.
I know this makes me sound like a naysayer, but I am so not. I believe in hydroponics,aquaponics and urban farming.
What I do have a problem with is someone drawing some cad designs of a slick tower with two pages of hypothetical musings on how the buildings mechanical system will run, sending this off to the National and local dailies creating media buzz over a couple homework assignments.
Get serious, reclaim a couple of abandoned industrial sites and prove your technology and system works. Then we can take people seriously and get the right people and financing behind these projects.

]]> By: cruiser12 http://inhabitat.com/gordon-graffs-skyfarm-for-toronto/comment-page-1/#comment-195429 cruiser12 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:20:26 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/?p=30603#comment-195429 If you have an opportunity to visit the new roofgarden at Toronto's Metro Central YMCA you will see why we desperately need a Skyfarm. You could describe the downtown and mid-town area visible from the roofgarden as an urban desert. All you can see is rows of highrise buildings and very little greenspace. Virtually all the people who live and work in these buildings buy their food from supermarkets and fastfood outlets. Even if the cost of food from a Skyfarm isn't cheaper than what is currently available at least it would be fresh and healthy. I also think it would be valuable to get the community colleges and universities involved with the Skyfarm project. Their constituents could be workers, learners and consumers. The building could become an institute for urban farming. People from all over the world could come to contribute and learn.They could also get credentials in urban farming. Those credentials will be valuable as this type of agriculture grows world-wide. It may be the only way to keep the exploding world population fed and healthy. We need healthy people or we'll keep having pandemics. If we have too many pandemics we are doomed!!! If you want to discuss these ideas further contact me at newappleb@rogers.com If you have an opportunity to visit the new roofgarden at Toronto’s Metro Central YMCA you will see why we desperately need a Skyfarm. You could describe the downtown and mid-town area visible from the roofgarden as an urban desert. All you can see is rows of highrise buildings and very little greenspace. Virtually all the people who live and work in these buildings buy their food from supermarkets and fastfood outlets. Even if the cost of food from a Skyfarm isn’t cheaper than what is currently available at least it would be fresh and healthy.

I also think it would be valuable to get the community colleges and universities involved with the Skyfarm project. Their constituents could be workers, learners and consumers. The building could become an institute for urban farming. People from all over the world could come to contribute and learn.They could also get credentials in urban farming. Those credentials will be valuable as this type of agriculture grows world-wide. It may be the only way to keep the exploding world population fed and healthy. We need healthy people or we’ll keep having pandemics. If we have too many pandemics we are doomed!!!

If you want to discuss these ideas further contact me at newappleb@rogers.com

]]> By: Park Young Jin http://inhabitat.com/gordon-graffs-skyfarm-for-toronto/comment-page-1/#comment-172044 Park Young Jin Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:31:01 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/?p=30603#comment-172044 in South Korea Skyfarm is now actively studying after seeing your articles for Skyfarm. It will be highly appreciated if you let me know the present process of this porject. in South Korea Skyfarm is now actively studying after seeing your articles for Skyfarm. It will be highly appreciated if you let me know the present process of this porject.

]]> By: kyleedginton http://inhabitat.com/gordon-graffs-skyfarm-for-toronto/comment-page-1/#comment-144964 kyleedginton Mon, 25 May 2009 16:11:11 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/?p=30603#comment-144964 I hope that something like this becomes reality soon, so that big cities like Toronto or others can become more self sufficient. I hope that something like this becomes reality soon, so that big cities like Toronto or others can become more self sufficient.

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