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Greens stretching out in to the blues: Is farming on skyscrapers any good?
Aug 9 2008, Sameer Kumar

The debate has raged on for weeks and while the initial thoughts were that we were heading towards something that was a substantial concept that would feed millions of hungry mouths across the planet, it seems the concept has only lost out with time..

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