
World; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

Life Towers:


The concept of growing food in 60 story buildings in the middle of a city is growing in populartity all the  time (Growing food in Skyscrapers)

The Mic:Any embarrassing moments on stage?
Nothing worth talking about!
What I think is worth Talking about however is setting up a concert, wherein four distinct music genres
PERFORM Rock & Roll – Hip Hop - Jazz and Folk, each definite music style is voted on and the Group within the particular genres that gets the most votes gets money a trophy and bragging rights. The concert will be televised on stations around the world and on the internet Webcast Live. CBS alone reaches millions with over 600 streaming

Stations and the newest entrant into the field groundbreaking mobile applications
Not to mention AOL. Raadio Yahoo! Music and Xbox.
People will call-in and vote and pledge money and support for the Lifetowers concept. And they get to vote for the music they are watching. This show
Can also be re-broadcast and also sold on DVD’s.
Selling the idea for a prototype of LIFETOWERS will be easy with the right visual dramatic presentation . The trouble the world is in today people are searching for anything that can help answer the problems of the world needs. So a concert like
the “Ten Years To Solve World Hunger” can only educate and entertain all who experience it.

The LifeTowers none profit Corporation group gets the money to build a
Lifetower prototype that can feed, employ and power each city one is constructed in…

This concept that Once it’s begun it will transform the way in which food, energy and communications are created and delivered and it will revolutionize the world.

When I was a student studying social engineering at Clark University I wrote a paper entitled “!0 Years To Solve World Hunger” and submitted at Christmas time for a mid term
Paper, To my absolute surprise my professor sent it back to me by FedEx and gave me
a grade of A+ and asked that I get it published, frankly I was delighted, I had worked hard on the paper and made sure that my facts where all in order. I didn’t have the resources so I published it in the inside cover of my first album.” In Another World”
You can still get that physical album at Amazon .Com.
I will put up a website titled “LifeTowers.com” That will be a full presentation to explain all the elements of the Lifetowers and the “Ten Years to solve world hunger” and why this concept must not fail it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of the humane race.

- Einstein

Walt Disney





There is another reason to develop indoor farming: exploding population growth. By 2050, demographers estimate there will be an additional 3 billion people (a global total of 9.2 billion). If current farming practices are maintained, extra landmass as large as Brazil would have to be cultivated to feed them. Yet nearly all the land that can produce food is already being farmed—even without accounting for the possibility of losing more to rising sea levels and climate change (which could turn arable land into dust bowls).

Depending on the crops being grown, a single vertical farm could allow thousands of farmland acres to be permanently reforested. For the moment, these calculations remain highly speculative, but a real-life example offers a clue: After a strawberry farm in Florida was wiped out by Hurricane Andrew, the owners built a hydroponic farm. By growing strawberries indoors and stacking layers on top of each other, they now produce on one acre of land what used to require 30 acres.

Why build vertical farms in cities? Growing crops in a controlled environment has benefits: no animals to transfer disease through untreated waste; no massive crop failures as a result of weather-related disasters; less likelihood of genetically modified “rogue” strains entering the “natural” plant world. All food could be grown organically, without herbicides, pesticides, or fertilizers, eliminating agricultural runoff. And 80 percent of the world’s population will be living in urban areas by 2050. Cities already have the density and infrastructure needed to support vertical farms, and super-green skyscrapers could supply not just food but energy, creating a truly self-sustaining environment.

Like the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona, a real vertical farm will probably require a utopian philanthropist with deep pockets. In the eighties, Edward Bass spent $200 million of his own money to construct the Biosphere. A smaller and less complex vertical farm would probably cost that much to build today and could be funded by someone from a country where arable land is already in short supply, such as Japan, Iceland, or more likely Dubai. Despommier is convinced the first vertical farm will exist within fifteen years—and the irony is, oil money could very well build it.

1. The Solar Panel
Most of the vertical farm’s energy is supplied by the pellet power system (see over). This solar panel rotates to follow the sun and would drive the interior cooling system, which is used most when the sun’s heat is greatest.

(Photo: Architectural Designs by Rolf Mohr)

2. The Wind Spire
An alternative (or a complement) to solar power, conceived by an engineering professor at Cleveland State University. Conventional windmills are too large for cities; the wind spire uses small blades to turn air upward, like a screw.

3. The Glass Panels
A clear coating of titanium oxide collects pollutants and prevents rain from beading; the rain slides down the glass, maximizing light and cleaning the pollutants. Troughs collect runoff for filtration.

(Photo: Interiors by James Nelms­ Digital Artist @ Storyboards Online)

4. The Control Room

5. The Architecture
Inspired by the Capitol Records building in Hollywood. Circular design uses space most efficiently and allows maximum light into the center. Modular floors stack like poker chips for flexibility.

6. The Crops
The vertical farm could grow fruits, vegetables, grains, and even fish, poultry, and pigs. Enough, Despommier estimates, to feed 50,000 people annuall


Growing Vertical: Skyscraper Farming

Skyscraper Farming Solution


Vertical farms – Why waste land when you can grow food in skyscrapers?

Listen up environmentalists! If you’re serious about relieving mother earth of her burdens as food producer, you can forget about unsustainable and inefficient organic farming (which requires far more space than non-organic). You need to end the hypocrisy and start proponing vertical farming, the viable solution to feeding all the world’s people - not just those who can shop at Whole Foods.

Vertindoor By growing crops without the use of soil - hydroponically - “fields” can be stacked on top of each other in urban areas, to grow fruits, vegetables, grains, you name it. The vertical farms work as a closed circuit, so all the water and nutrients are recycled, and only the produce actually leaves the building.

I his book, The Vertical Farm , Dr. Dickson Despommier explains the considerable advantages vertical farming holds over traditional farming (organic or otherwise):

1. It allows year-round crop production.

2. It provides food to areas lacking arable land.

3. It’s immune to weather-related crop failure. Vert2

4. It re-uses the water by collecting it through de-humidification.

5. It has no need for the use of pesticides, fertilizers, or herbicides, and as such makes for healthier, clean food (even more so than today’s organic food which is prone to the bacteria occurring in for instance manure).

6. It drastically reduces dependence on fossil fuels, as the food needn’t be shipped to the city (because it’s there already).

7. There is no crop loss due to shipping or storage.

8. Reduced food costs as a consequence of reduced distance between producer and consumer.

9. Urban farms would create a cadre of related businesses in its vicinity, such as bakers, produce stores etc.

10. It would employ a lot of both skilled and unskilled labor.

11. Vertical farms would be entirely carbon free, and run on wind, solar, tidal or geothermal energy.

Imagine if all the world's farm land was no longer needed? It could be used for, well, nature. A transition to vertical farming could produce clean, cheap food in abundance. My only question is, Why aren’t we already doing this?

You can read more about this inspiring idea in the The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century and watch the video below

The Vertical Farm

The Vertical Farm Video