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...
Source: treehugger.com Published: June 22, 2017 CC BY 2.0 Nick Saltmarsh By Megan Treacy A new technique for turning food waste into a source of energy uses a two step process that extracts all of the energy from the waste and does so quickly. Researchers at Cornell...
Source: blog.generalmills.com Published: November 21, 2016 By Jerry Lynch You may have noticed that General Mills has been talking a lot about food waste lately. As a global food company, it’s imperative to take thoughtful action to combat food waste and we are...
Source: truth-out.org Published: June 13, 2017 Melissa Hellmann, YES! Magazine When her eldest son was in elementary school in the Oakland Unified School District, Ruth Woodruff became alarmed by the meals he was being served at school. A lot of it was frozen,...
Source: spore.cta.int Published: June 9, 2016 By Anne Perrin It is common knowledge that a 60% increase in food production will be necessary to feed the world in 2050, and water is essential for agricultural production if it is going to meet rising food needs. In the...
Source: weforum.org Published: October 27, 2016 From hamburgers to plastic, new technologies are reinventing the products we consume on a daily basis. Gill Cassar Take a look around you. Many of the products you see were made using industrial processes that are at...
Source: nytimes.com Published: May 30, 2017 The design company Ecovative makes a variety of packaging materials using mycelium fungus. Credit: Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times By Stephanie Strom For the environmentally conscious eater, they are among the most...
