Plantagon’s crowdfunded ‘plantscraper’ aims to produce 500 metric tons of food a year
“Swedish company Plantagon believes that ‘plantscrapers’ are the way of the future—and part of solution to the global food crisis. Part urban farm, part skyscraper, these vertical greenhouses could provide large-scale organic food production in cities, with a much smaller energy and carbon footprint than industrial agriculture. After years of research and development, Plantagon is now ready to embark on their first landmark plantscraper, called The World Food Building, and is crowdfunding their way to success…”
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If you want to use huge amounts of valuable real estate and huge amounts of energy to grow food, this looks like a wonderful idea.
David Westebbe So nice of you to make an uninformed comment without reading the article. That’s always helpful. At the very least, the descriptor: “with a much smaller energy and carbon footprint than industrial agriculture.”
I ate two pounds of food yesterday, plus drinks and snacks
Tons of anything goes packed inside a truck
Wasim Muklashy Do you think that displacing an office building or high rise residential is a wise use of urban space?
I saw the claims about energy efficiency. Seemingly, the office or other space will use the waste heat generated by the lights and pumps. I’m very sceptical of the claims.
This looks to me like another “Solar Freaking Roadways” fiasco.
David Westebbe Yes. I do. I see it as a much more efficient and sustainable way to provide food for a dense urban community than to truck tons of pesticide-ridden ‘food’ in diesel-burning machines thousands of miles multiple times a day. Be as skeptical as you like, and perhaps it’s a fiasco, but I’m much more for trying things than trying to hold onto what’s no longer working. That’s how innovation happens.
Pesticide laden? Trucks used to transport food thousands of miles?
If this idea had merit, they would finance it like any other building project. Kick starter is not a place to get the $200 million this would cost.
David Westebbe HAHA! Cute. Why in the hell would anyone want to be slaves to a traditional bank or funding source anymore these days after all the fuckery they’ve proven to be the source of? Especially when they don’t have to? Between crowdfunding and the blockchain, the banks and traditional financiers can go screw themselves. Them days are over. As a matter of fact, 8 of the top 10 highest funded crowdfunding campaigns were raised through the blockchain to the tune of billions of dollars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_funded_crowdfunding_projects). So much so that the central banks and the IMF are quaking in their boots and Wall Street firms themselves are now opening funds to trade with blockchain based crypto (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-01/if-goldman-sachs-won-t-trade-bitcoin-someone-else-will) No one takes the ‘traditional’ non-transparent fiat based banks seriously anymore…certainly not the younger generations after we saw what they did to our parents, our neighbors, our local businesses, our friends, our 401ks, our investments, myself! They can take that nonsense and screw themselves with it. I’ve finally just recently paid off my insanely interest-ridden ‘traditionally financed’ debts from 2009, and severed all ties with traditional ‘banks’ and ‘financing’ save for an account with Beneficial State Bank, a B-Corp that invests in non-profits and community projects and offers a higher interest rate than any other of our beloved traditional financers, and will NEVER rely on the former again. And as you can see from the links above, I’m not the only one. Welcome to the future.
Wasim Muklashy Commercial real estate is not financed through crowd sourcing. If I’m wrong, cite some examples. I’d love to learn of block-sized urban complexes such as this one, but even the existence of a single suburban strip mall would be interesting.
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David Westebbe Wow. Way to ignore the point dude. Misdirection’s a helluva drug. But sure, I’ll play your game: money.cnn.com – You can now invest in real estate, even if you’re not Donald Trump
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cnbc.com – Crowdfunding comes to real estate, and pays off
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David Westebbe investorjunkie.com – CrowdStreet Review 2017 | No-Fee Crowdfunded Real Estate Investing
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ccim.com – Commercial Real Estate Crowdfunding | CCIM Institute
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forbes.com – This $130 Million Fund Is Leading The Way In Real Estate Crowdfunding
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Interesting. Thanks.
It looks more like angel funding than crowd sourcing, however.
David Westebbe “Real estate is the fastest-growing segment of the crowfunding industry”
marketwatch.com – 3 ways to invest in a crowdfunded real-estate project – MarketWatch
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David Westebbe Angel investing? Oh my gosh. You’re incorrigible. Ok fine. You win.
Wasim Muklashy Thanks. Another interesting article.
still, just a series of websites to the sheer number of properties in existence, anyway, I think Jon Wayne is a bot, I got two pesters I think I identified correctly, would be the third one