Working on a story on vertical farming in Asia, I came across Pasona - a recruiting firm whose Tokyo office space doubles up as an urban farm.
Of the 215,000 square feet space in the nine-storey corporate office building in Otemachi, about 20 per cent (43,000 square feet) is green space: staff can harvest 200 species of fruit, vegetables and rice here, most of which are used in the office's cafeterias.
What impressed me the most about this farm-to-table, zero-food-mileage office was the reason behind this conscious use of space...
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