Apple's wealth by the numbers. Amazing infographic. http://t.co/G7HefM2a ~ docuguy

Green in the City

You don’t think of crowded, gray-toned cities as farming centers, but that’s exactly what’s happening in New York, Detroit and San Francisco.

Storified by Lee Schneider

Green in the City

You don’t think of crowded, gray-toned cities as farming centers, but that’s exactly what’s happening in New York, Detroit and San Francisco.

  1. The future of farming is developing on New York City’s rooftops. This is great news for companies like Brightfarms, which is shrinking the distance from farm to store by literally putting the farm on top of the store. It’s also good news for Grow Studio, which designs urban farming environments. 
  2. New York isn’t the only city that has farming on its to-do list. At the San Francisco Green Film Festival you can attend the premiere of a movie called Urban Roots about the urban farming movement in Detroit.  

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Collaboration

Does collaborating on a project mean you really don’t get any work done?

Storified by Lee Schneider

Collaboration

Does collaborating on a project mean you really don’t get any work done?

  1. Groupthink is bad, certainly, and it’s true that meetings can be time-wasters. The real work often gets done alone.  A recent New York Times feature piece made this point well. 

  2. But today much work happens in front of a screen, and often it’s a screen that we share with co-workers who are not in the same room.  Some of them we may never meet in person. These kinds of online collaborations, the kind driven by Trello and google.docs and Salesforce, are the perfect form of collaborative solitude, I think. They combine the best of both worlds.

    It’s not a perfect marriage, but it works. As William Gibson might have said, ‘the future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.’

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Beth Kanter on Pinterest

Another way to share images online that is probably better than Flickr.

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Beth Kanter on Pinterest

Another way to share images online that is probably better than Flickr.

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Pity the billionaire

Good thoughts on the divide between the 1 percent and the other 99.

Storified by Lee Schneider

Pity the billionaire

Good thoughts on polarization.

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Ann Gentry Talk at the NON-GMO Event

Ann Gentry of Real Food Daily spoke at an event about non-GMO food.  GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, are part of the growing cycle of many crops that are grown on an industrial scale.  Listen:

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