can a city bio-mimic an intact ecosystem with respect to the allocation and use of essential resources and, at the same time, provide a healthy, nurturing, sustainable environment for its inhabitants?

farming in the United States consumes some 20 percent of the fossil fuels used annually. Because food from the vertical farm needn’t travel very far, its rate of spoilage will also be greatly reduced. No storage will mean less refrigeration and more fossil fuel saved.