Source: km.kongsberg.com Published: April 5, 2016 The Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Fisheries has approved Norway’s first development concession enabling Ocean Farming AS, supported by Kongsberg Maritime AS, to build the world’s first automated...
Source: grist.org Published: February 26, 2016 Bren Smith. Ron Gautreau By Bren Smith I’m a fisherman who dropped out of high school in 1986 at the age of 14. Over my lifetime, I’ve spent many nights in jail. I’m an epileptic. I’m asthmatic. I don’t even know how to...
Source: popsci.com Published: December 5, 2016 By Jeremy Deaton Ocean-bound entrepreneur envisions ecological restoration and economic revival. Click here to watch “What is 3D Farming?”: https://youtu.be/NtBaX5oiUSA Worldwide, farmland consumes an area roughly...
Source: impactalpha.com Published: January 13, 2016 NOTE: Requires an Impact Alpha membership to view Marina Leytes R. Buckminster Fuller was a founding father of systems thinking. You can look it up. And you can look up an index of ideas that honor such thinking in...
Source: sciencedaily.com Published: September 26, 2016 Finger millet field. Source: University of Guelph Summary: Plant scientists have shown for the first time how an ancient crop teams up with a beneficial microbe to protect against a devastating fungal infection, a...
Source: boston.com Published: July 29, 2016 Making food more sustainable and helping farmers turn a profit are two of Indigo’s main goals. –Reuters Indigo is using microbes to make super healthy, hardy crops. By Justine Hofherr, Staff Writer Tyler McClendon,...
Source: wired.com Published: March 21, 2016 Getty Images Sarah Zhang Organics are in. Chemicals are out. With today’s food politics, the chemical fertilizers and pesticides that fantastically increased agricultural yields in the 20th century are looking…not so...
Source: jappliedecologyblog.wordpress.com Published: November 9, 2016 In this post Nahuel Policelli discusses a recent paper by Timothy M. Bowles and colleagues ‘Ecological intensification and arbuscular mycorrhizas: a meta-analysis of tillage and cover crop effects‘...
Source: civileats.com Published: June 28, 2017 West Oakland’s Brown Sugar Kitchen joined food-tech company BlueCart in a project to reduce food waste, although diner behavior remains the biggest culprit. By Sara Harrison In the homey dining room at West Oakland’s...
Source: inhabitat.com Published: June 27, 2017 Written by Lidija Grozdanic Could the buildings of the future be grown instead of built? Brunel University student Aleksi Vesaluoma has found a way to grow living structures using mushroom mycelium. Vesaluoma worked with...
