May 2012
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Germany Sets New Solar Record By Meeting Nearly...
Germany fed a whopping 22 gigawatts of solar power per hour into the national grid last weekend, setting a new record by meeting nearly half of the country’s weekend power demand. After the Fukushima disaster, Japan opted to shut down all of its nuclear power stations and Germany followed suit after considerable public pressure. This seems to have paved the way for greater investment in solar...
Social network for kids focuses on sharing DIY...
Targeting “kids who make,” DIY aims to give creative children an online space to celebrate and share their creations.
28th May 2012 in Lifestyle & Leisure.
We’ve already seen several social networks aimed at kids, but recently we came upon one with an interesting twist. Targeting “kids who make,” DIY aims to give creative children a place to celebrate and share their creations.
Aimed at...
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This Compound Butter is Awesome on Steaks
Cilantro Jalapeño Compound Butter Makes 4 to 6 servings
4 tablespoons butter 2 teaspoons finely chopped jalapeño pepper, seeds and ribs removed 2 teaspoons finely chopped shallot 2 tablespoons (packed) chopped cilantro 1 tablespoon lime juice 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Cut butter into chunks and place in a bowl. Bring to room temperature (if you’re a little...
The Secret Life Of California's World-Class...
But in fact, one state — California — supplies 80 percent of America’s strawberries, and the percentage is growing.
The reason? California’s fields are stunningly productive. They yield ten times more strawberries, per acre, than strawberry farms in Michigan; twenty times more than farms in the state of New York. And there’s a complex web of reasons why.
It’s a...
CARPOOLERS: THE DAILY COMMUTE CAPTURED FROM ABOVE
Not everyones daily commute includes a comfortable air conditioned environment, morning talk radio and an office at the end. Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena captures many of these people from overpasses near his home-base in Monterrey, just as the trucks that carry them pass under his talented lens. These workers head to construction sites, landscaping jobs and field work packed into the...
Specially-developed soil sustains live plants in...
UK-based eco media agency CURB has helped Clear Channel to encase living flowers inside advertising shelters in a campaign for allergy relief brand Piri.
28th May 2012 in Marketing & Advertising.
UK-based eco media agency CURB has already demonstrated an innovative use of living organisms as a form of advertising with its DesignGrass, which requires neither soil nor watering to provide a...
The FarmPlate Young Farmers Series: Josh...
Jeff Gangemi May 23, 2012 Young Farmers 0 comments
NAME: JOSH MORGENTHAU
FARM: FISHKILL FARMS
AGE: 28
Tell us a more about your farm and how you got into farming: I grew up in New York City. After college, I moved a little bit upstate, to the farm my grandfather started in 1913. My father had kept it running at a loss over the years.
What did you do before you started farming? Have you...
“At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly...”
– Carl Sagan (via philphys)
Will green plastics go mainstream? →
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Crimes Against Horticulture
Crimes Against Horticulture, Pruning Division
I can’t help but steal my post title from Billy Goodnick - the term is just too apt, in the case of these two juicy examples of bad pruning.
On the left, the power company seems like the obvious culprit but once homeowners plant trees too close to the power lines, what’s a company to do? I shot this from my car last winter but I bet...
Dollars and Scents: The Chemistry of a Delicious...
Overlooked aromatic compounds make huge contributions to tomato flavor, which suggests a new way to improve the taste of high-yield crops
By Ferris Jabr | May 24, 2012
The typical supermarket tomato: ripe red, firm to the touch, free of blemishes—and of flavor. Since at least the 1970s, U.S. consumers have lamented the beautiful but bland fruits that farmers breed not for taste, but...
The Science of Local Food (New York Academy of...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM South Street Seaport Museum - Melville Gallery
Presented by Science & the City, the Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science, and New Amsterdam Market
From improved nutrition to better environmental stewardship, local food systems have been offered as a panacea for much of what ails us. Culturally, local food systems connect us in a way that...
A Pickup Truck Grows an Educational Mini-Farm
If the Lorax were to ever actually award a “Certified Truffula Tree of Approval” to a moving vehicle, it’d be a lot more likely to go to a garden-toting truck that brings farms to schools than to a Mazda SUV.
A literal “food truck,” Truck Farm Chicago is a nonprofit organization that uses a 1994 Ford F-250 named Petunia to chauffeur a miniature farm. The project,...
Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into...
By Jess Zimmerman
Martha Payne had some sad-ass lunches at her school in Scotland — unsatisfying food that sometimes had more hair than vegetables. So the 9-year-old decided to start a blog with photos and vital statistics about her meals. Almost immediately, the blog got international attention, including from prominent school lunch busybody Jamie Oliver. Result? Martha’s dad just met with the...
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3:30AM. Last night. My brain keeping me awake.
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Help GrowNYC Win a New Grow Truck!
Grow Truck is GrowNYC’s “garden on the go” program, delivering tools, donated plants, soil, compost, and lumber, and dispensing on-site technical assistance all across New York City, for free since 1977.
We’ve had our current Grow Truck for 23 years, and you can help us get a brand new truck by voting for GrowNYC in Toyota’s 100 Cars for Good contest on Facebook.
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McClure's Pickles - Brooklyn - A Workshop
Thursday, May 24 Pickling at Home A Workshop with Bob McClure of McClure’s Pickles
Please join us as Bob McClure of McClure’s Pickles teaches us to bring this delicious skill into our own kitchens. Bob will talk about the history and basics of pickling, and give a hands-on demonstration. Everyone will have the opportunity to create their own batch of McClure’s delicious pickles and...
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