Imagine a world in which the total footprint of human civilization is smaller, literally. Where apartment buildings are also vertical farms, and solar walls and roofs harness power enough for the entire city. Our world is changing; cities globally continue to accrue populations as family farms empty out and lie fallow, often to be eventually replaced by development and suburban sprawl. Our nation's biggest farms grow feed for livestock and fuel for automotives and quickly empty soil of its diverse life forms. But because urban wellness culture is evolving, cities are also becoming hotbeds of health-savvy businesses (think SoulCycle and Chop't). People are demanding better food, which means a better food system, and a revolution in food tech.

Producer: Sylvia Channing

Sylvia Channing is a gardener/entrepreneur from the East End. With a formal background in geology at Oberlin College and experience with school garden programs, Sylvia has been into farming and eating fresh food since she was a student, and started her first jobs working on farms. Today, she works with a team of entrepreneurs in a new urban farming incubator in Brooklyn backed by Kimball Musk of the Musk brothers.