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.
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New York City could open up 1,200 acres of rooftops for farming New York City could open up 1,200 acres of rooftops for farming Given how valuable space is in New York City, the city’s rooftops are str…
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.
Urban Agriculture: Green on a Human Scale How do you turn a garden on its side and grow it up a wall? And why would you want to? Going sideways with your greenery might be a way t…
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.
Urban Roots | San Francisco Green Film Festival Against all odds, in the boarded-up shops, empty lots and defunct factories, seeds of change are taking root in Detroit. With the most va…
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Does collaborating on a project mean you really don’t get any work done?
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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.
The Rise of the New Groupthink But there’s a problem with this view. Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from i…
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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Another way to share images online that is probably better than Flickr.
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Pinterest: A Tool To Curate Relevant Visual Content for Your Audience Pinterest is a virtual pinboard where you can organize and share images and videos you discover on the web. Think of it as social network…
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Good thoughts on the divide between the 1 percent and the other 99.
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By Thomas Frank — Book Review – New York Times 4 days ago … Sunday Book Review · World · U.S. … By MICHAEL KINSLEY. Published: … Thomas Frank is the thinking person's Micha…
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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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