"MELTANT-α - an avatar robot with the world’s most powerful and flexible robotic hand": https://www.meltin.jp/en/news/202/ #Robot
"MELTANT-α - an avatar robot with the world’s most powerful and flexible robotic hand": https://www.meltin.jp/en/news/202/ #Robot
Container Farming | The Good, The Bad, The Ugly:
The Truth Behind Container Farm Yields:
"China’s biggest start-ups ditch Oracle, IBM for homemade tech": https://businessmirror.com.ph/2019/06/26/chinas-biggest-start-ups-ditch-oracle-ibm-for-homemade-tech/ post-internet preparations. #Technology #Politics
Freight Farms is creating a more sustainable and connected food system through the Leafy Green Machine (LGM), a fully-operational hydroponic farm built inside an up-cycled freight container, capable of producing yields at commercial-scale in any climate and any season": https://www.freightfarms.com/ - supported by http://www.morningside.com/
Freight Farms is Building Tech for Global Good:
Webinar: Using Grown by Freight Farms Brings Local Food Anywhere:
Introduction To The Leafy Green Machine:
Freight Farms Brings Vertical Farming To The Masses | Forbes:
Can Parks Help Cities Fight Crime?: https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/06/parks-crime-safety-green-space/592648/ #Urban #Garden #Design #FFHCI
"Engineering enzymes to turn plant waste into sustainable products": https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190624161136.htm
A new family of enzymes has been engineered to perform one of the most important steps in the conversion of plant waste into sustainable and high-value products such as nylon, plastics and chemicals.
"Translucent ‘ghost plant’ that resembles dead flesh found in Great Smoky Mountains": https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article231925218.html
"Ant farmers boost plant nutrition with their feces, offering clues for future food security": https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190624204755.htm
Humans began cultivating crops about 12,000 years ago. Ants have been at it rather longer. Leafcutter ants, the best-known insect farmers, belong to a lineage of insects that have been running fungus farms based on chopped-up vegetable matter for over 50 million years. The ant farming of flowering plants, however, started more recently, about 3 million years ago in the Fiji Islands.
"Dozens of Creatures Thought to Be Extinct Found Alive in ‘Lost City’ in the Jungle": https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/creatures-thought-to-be-extinct-found-in-honduras-lost-city/ #Regenerative #Biology
"Archaeologists confirm ancient astronomical ruin in central China - dating back 5000 years":
"The delegation of the Brazilian president wanted to bring 39kg of cocaine to the G20 summit": https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/26/americas/brazil-officer-cocaine-g20-intl/index.html Brought to you by the same people, cutting down the Amazonas Jungle in record time. #Politics
@theCCCuk has called for an increase in UK woodland cover to 17% by 2050. This would require a planting rate of 30,000 hectares a year: https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/plant-trees/ #Garden #Regenerative
New England Is Losing Its Native Plants. Researchers Say It’s Time To Stop And Smell The Wildflowers: https://www.wbur.org/earthwhile/2019/06/06/new-england-wildflower-declines #Garden #Regenerative
Amazon will pay $0 in taxes on $11,200,000,000 in profit for 2018 - kleptocracy:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-taxes-zero-180337770.html #Politics #Technology
This talk made me puke a bit. Horrendously technocratic, backwards vision. Disgusting.
"Sovereign Nature Initiative" - by Florian Schmitt:
"In just 30 years, India has lost large forests to 23,716 industrial projects - India’s forests now cover only 21.34% of the country": https://scroll.in/article/809286/in-just-30-years-india-has-lost-large-forests-to-23716-industrial-projects #Garden #ClimateChange
"Digital farm business coaching: Small Robot Company offers its robots through a Farming as a Service (FaaS) model, which is both a hardware and a software service for farmers": https://www.smallrobotcompany.com/press-releases/2019/6/26/small-robots-launch-farm-ambition-blueprint-and-100-club-groundswellaguk-gw19 #ML #Robot #Garden