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Food System
Coming soon, 3-D printed meat
Sep 5th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Peter Theil's venture capital firm Breakout Labs is betting on the future of 3-D printed meat and leather. With a grant for their research, the start-up Modern Meadow hopes to have the technology within a year that will enable meat and leather to be printed from cell cultures.
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PharmPods
Sep 4th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
PharmPods let you grow greens in a shipping container - almost anywhere. With a proprietary technology and a brilliant business plan, PharmPod founder Scott Dittman hopes to see greens grown all over in his innovative hydroponic growing containers. It's the type of innovation we need in the quest to develop more local food sources and reduce food miles.
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From The Battlefield to The Farm
Aug 29th, 2012 | By Nicole Rogers
Colin Archipley, a decorated Marine Sargent and Iraq War vet, and his wife Karen, own a successful organic hydroponic greenhouse operation in California. Troubled by the plight of veterans and returning servicemen and servicewomen, they formed the Veterans Sustainable Agriculture Training (VSAT) program. The program provides vets and their spouses with an entrepreneurial training program in sustainable agriculture.
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Farming in Skyscrapers
Aug 20th, 2012 | By Nicole Rogers
Just what is 'vertical farming', and will it work? Dickson Despommier rhapsodizes about farming in skyscrapers. Is it a realistic vision of the future of urban farming?
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Open Ocean Aquaculture
Aug 15th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Open Ocean Aquaculture is broadly defined as "the rearing of marine organisms in exposed areas beyond significant coastal influence." In these systems, larger pelagic fish like tuna, halibut or cod are raised for consumption.
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How CSAs help small farmers during times of drought
Aug 13th, 2012 | By Nicole Rogers
Sustainable America spoke on the phone with farmer Tim Huth, of LotFotL (pronounced like "hot bottle") Farm in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, about the drought of 2012, and how the farm's CSA has helped them weather the heat.
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What is a factory farm?
Aug 8th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
A burger is a burger is a burger right? Well, not always so. Where and how your food was raised can make a distinct difference in the taste and nutritional quality of the food. But it’s also important to realize that the food system you choose to support every time you eat can make a difference. Large-scale industrial agriculture contributes to higher oil and fuel usage, more pesticide usage, loss of crop diversity, soil degradation and increased greenhouse gas emissions.
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Urban Edibles
Jul 27th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
Ever wondered what it would be like to forage in your own urban environment? How hard would it be to find edible foods in your neighborhood? Urban Edibles is a Portland, Oregon based non-profit that is taking the guess work out of finding wild edible foods around the city.
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Water rationing in the 2012 drought
Jul 26th, 2012 | By Aubrey Yee
With comparisons to the dustbowl experience of the early 1930s already starting to circulate, it is still unknown how bad the drought we're experiencing this summer can get.
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The Drought of 2012
Jul 24th, 2012 | By Nicole Rogers
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration created the animation below to show the affects of the historic 2012 drought on vegetation month by month. It's eerie to watch the dying vegetation spread across the country. You can also see how the first half of July has seen an acceleration of burned-out vegetation brought on by high temperatures and by the length of the drought.
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