Miscellaneous
Farmers have modified our food for at least 10,000 years, why does it matter all of a sudden?
In the past week you’ve probably eaten crops that wouldn’t exist in nature, or that have evolved extra genes to reach freakish sizes. You’ve probably eaten “cloned” food and you may have even eaten plants whose ancestors were once deliberately blasted with radiation. Read More...
This startup is turning leftover beer into delicious snacks
When you're looking for dinner ingredients at the supermarket, you probably wince at the bruised pears, skip over those oddly shaped carrots, and reach past ugly red peppers. This preference for pretty produce means the ugly fruits and vegetables are tossed out, filling landfills with otherwise Read More...
3 plant-based recipes you need to try this World Meat Free Day
Next Monday is World Meat Free Day, a great time for all of us to stop and think about the impact of our eating habits on our health – and the health of the planet. Animal agriculture in particular leaves a huge mark on the environment: from water pollution to deforestation to climate change. Read More...
Why Chicago is becoming the urban farming capital of the U.S.
When you walk into Farmed Here’s 90,000-square-foot warehouse in Bedford Park, a sleepy industrial outpost about 15 miles southwest of Chicago, you might not immediately register that you're standing in the second coming of the locavore movement. But then you get inside and smell Read More...
Why your new favorite backyard burger may soon be plant-based
For the roster of companies producing plant-based meat alternatives, the burger is the end-all-be-all. And one company thinks they’ve got the burger that will push the meat-eating industry as we know it to the tipping point. Beyond Meat, a company based in El Segundo, just unveiled a Read More...
Urban gardens improve food security
Growing food in community and home gardens can provide people with more access to fresh vegetables for a healthier food supply, according to a new study. University of California and Santa Clara University researchers surveyed people in San Jose who maintained a garden in their yard or a community Read More...
How to feed 9.7bn people? Startups take on the global food problem
The raw numbers make for daunting reading. One in 10 people out of the current global population of 7.4 billion already goes hungry. Crop yields that soared in the decades after the second world war are flatlining, and the UN predicts there will be 2.3 billion more mouths to feed by 2050. So how to Read More...
OkCupid for unwanted fruits and veg: tech joins the fight against food waste
When Zoe Wong moved to the San Francisco Bay Area three years ago, she fell in love with the fresh and abundant produce from surrounding farmers’ markets. Wong grew up in Hong Kong, where fruits and vegetables were scarce and imported. After attending college in upstate New York, she moved to Read More...
"Small farmers are foundation to food security, not corporations"
May 22 has been declared International Biodiversity Day by the United Nations. It gives us an opportunity to become aware of the rich biodiversity that has been evolved by our farmers as co-creators with nature. It also provides an opportunity to acknowledge the threats to our biodiversity and our Read More...
I’m ditching traditional banks in favor of Bitcoin—and you can, too
I’ve been interested in bitcoin (BTC) as a concept since its inception. Until recently, however, I considered bitcoin more of a cryptographic experiment than something that could affect my daily life. One of the biggest obstacles for me was practicality. A few years ago, buying bitcoin or Read More...