plantscraper
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]plantscraper (plural plantscrapers)
- A tower used for indoor farming; a farmscraper.
- 2012 December 31, Sean Poulter, “The plant skyscrapers: Giant greenhouses in city centres to herald a new age of farming”, in Daily Mail[1], London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-03:
- Birds Eye and other food producers are investigating building 'plantscrapers', which could accommodate hundreds of storeys worth of crops, in a bid to make farming more economical, sustainable and meet increasing demand.
- 2017 November 18, Leanna Garfield, “This $40 million robotic 'plantscraper' will feed over 5,000 people per year”, in Business Insider[2], New York, N.Y.: Insider Inc., →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-04-24:
- A Swedish food-tech company called Plantagon is proposing that cities consider building what it calls "plantscrapers" — office towers that contain giant indoor farms. Plantagon is constructing its first plantscraper in Linköping, Sweden.
- A tall residential building covered in plants.
- 2018 August 25, Greg Callaghan, “Why plantscrapers are springing up across the globe”, in The Sydney Morning Herald[3], Sydney, NSW: Nine Entertainment, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-31:
- You could be forgiven for imagining the striking towers of One Central Park on Sydney's Broadway, whose north and west facades are smothered with up to 40,000 indigenous plants, are a one-off exercise in urban environmentalism, designed for apartment dwellers with deep pockets. But the reality is that green-covered towers – plantscrapers – are springing up across the globe.