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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear colleagues and friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Some of you might be interested in trying out HARVEST, our urban food production simulation plug-in for UMI, the
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#ED7D31"><a href="http://www.urbanmodeling.net/"><span style="color:#ED7D31">Urban Modeling Interface</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. HARVEST estimates food yields
of indoor farms and their associated operational building energy use, water use and carbon emissions, as well as their economic performance through metrics such as operational costs and job creation.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">You can watch video tutorials and download the installer
<a href="https://urbanfoodprints.com/#/harvest">here</a>. Please note that you need Rhino 6 for Windows and the
<span style="color:#ED7D31"><a href="http://web.mit.edu/sustainabledesignlab/projects/umi/index.html"><span style="color:#ED7D31">latest UMI</span></a></span> to use Harvest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Happy urban (food production) modeling,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Khadija Benis and Christoph Reinhart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">MIT Sustainable Design Lab
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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