By Amy Zavatto on Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Tired of anemic, flavorless tomatoes and wilted lettuce in your produce section? A manufacturer of hydroponic rooftop greenhouses is proposing that supermarkets get in the farming business. According to an article in Fast Company, BrightFarms CEO Paul Lightfood says that not only will the plan provide fresher veggies for consumers, but will reduce transportation and storage costs, as well as “grow food with none of the land and 95% less water used in traditional crops, with no chemical pesticides and a drastically reduced carbon footprint.”
By Erika Kotite on Monday, July 18th, 2011
Sweet stuff in Berkeley, pushing out great steak in Baltimore, jazz & BBQ in NYC…it’s all here.
1. Pastry chef with a good attitude. This ad was a refreshing change of pace from the standard robotic fare. Neat opp to create Belgian-style pastries using fresh, local ingredients for a large pastry company in Berkeley.
By Amy Zavatto on Thursday, July 14th, 2011
According to a great story by writer, and sometime fisherman, Tom Gogola in this week’s New York Magazine, 7.3 million tons of fish that don’t meet fishing quotas die on board ships after the more desirable swimmy creatures are sorted through and put aside. That wasted, dead millions? Tossed back into the water. It’s a mind-boggling amount of creatures killed and tossed aside for no good reason — and with the crisis of overfishing and subsequent destruction of marine life and the general watery ecosystem at large, one that makes a person wonder: How are these rules benefitting the hungry, the livelihood of fisherman, and the world at large?
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