- -: Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization
April 19, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that's only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an ent...
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- -: TEDxFruitvale - Maria Catalan - From Farmworker to Farm Owner
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)A third-generation migrant farmworker, Maria Catalan was born in Guerrero, Mexico, where she helped her parents on the family farm before immigrating to the United States in 1986. For many years she worked for California's biggest farms, picking broccoli and carrots. Then she enrolled in a progra...
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- -: Ellen in a Minute - 05/18/10
October 15, 2010 (over 13 years ago)An hour of Ellen fun wrapped up into a couple minutes!
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- -: PopTech 2009: Will Allen
February 19, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Will Allen is co-founder and director of Growing Power, Inc., an organization that is transforming the production and delivery of healthy foods to underserved, urban populations. Growing Power operates as an urban farm and education center in Milwaukee, WI, and more recently, Chicago, teaching ur...
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- -: TEDxIowaCity - Stephen Carr - Conditioning the Soil to Feed the Globe
November 30, 2011 (over 12 years ago)How can making a minor modification to the soil allow it to provide better for our growing global population? The secret is looking at pancakes and waffles and learning how to fly an airplane undergroung.
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- -: Dickson Despommier On Cities of the Future
March 15, 2009 (about 15 years ago)The ideas of vertical farming visionary Dickson Despommier. http://bigthink.com/dicksondespommier
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- -: TEDxClaremontColleges - Jesse DuBois - The Urban Farming Revolution
October 24, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Jesse DuBois is an urban agriculturalist. He moved to Los Angeles to become a screenwriter, but instead got caught up in reshaping the food system. He is the CoFounder and currently serves as the Chief Eclectic Officer for two start-ups: Farmscape, an urban farming maintenance company, and Agrisa...
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- -: TEDxWinnipeg - Wade Barnes - How Do We Feed a Growing World?
October 25, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Wade Barnes, CEO, Farmer's Edge How Do We Feed a Growing World? Our connection to the earth is changing. We need higher quality and a greater volume of food from the same amount of land. How do we make that happen? Farmers Edge is leader in precision agriculture, which is about placing the rig...
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- -: TEDxZurich - Roman Gaus - Urban Farming
November 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Urban agriculture has been real for decades, starting with the industrialization of Western Europe in the 20th century. Urban agriculture has been also well practiced in poor economies such as Cuba, where it serves as an important way of self-reliance. Today, with conventional agriculture "Big Ag...
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- -: Susan Kegley - Pesticide Contamination in Food
April 18, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/18/Are_Pesticides_Poisoning_Our_Children_s_Future Dr. Susan Kegley, founder of the Pesticide Research Institute, discusses how susceptible various foods are to contamination by pesticide toxins. ----- Are Pesticides Poisoning Our Children's Future? Dis...
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