and use it as part of their diet. Surrounding it are rock outcrops. They're using their vocalizations in the rock outcrops to propagate,
The solutions--everything from irrigation systems to grain grinders to medical braces--used design innovations to reduce the cost of current solutions.
Design schools are also offering short executive courses as a means of teaching the folks in C-suites how to apply new design strategies.
and beauty discounts than its grocery deals. But in India, sales of the onion, a staple in Indian cooking, are soaring.
 The researchers calculate that to sufficiently meet the needs of every new hive, about one hectare (or about 2. 5 acres) of  borage,
First, wild or semi domesticated foods form a significant source of nourishment to many people around the world.
locally grown and wild foods can provide increased nutrient and caloric intakes. Unsustainable use and biotic simplification threaten these important resources,
not only for physical nourishment but also to shape cultural identity. Second services such as nutrient and water cycling, soil aeration, pest control,
and pollination are essential in sustaining the global food supply. Other ecosystem goods and services sustain human health in a variety of ways.
and Glen Bull of the  Curry School of education at the University of Virginia, recently answered my questions about the project.
or flavor and take that to make flavorings or fragrances. A nice pine scent for detergent--take this essence of pine.
Smoked hickory for your bacon--take this scent out of pyrolisized hickory wood. The wood in the pyrolysis process comes out in this liquid--pyrolysis oil.
They'll mix that in with  horse manure, old hay, wood chips. Do you bring the compost back once it's ready to use  in the roof garden?
and then planted a couple dozen different varieties of herbs, fall vegetables. We had lettuces and radishes, peppers, snow peas.
We're not trying to grow all of our own herbs. We just think it's a very cool and neat thing to do.
For special events that we sponsor, lunches or dinners, we'll incorporate some of the stuff from our garden in the meal.
It's not that we really get a lot out of the garden but it represents
Aztec"cuisine breeds gourmet taste for rare bugs"MEXICO CITY oe  Ant larva, wild boar, fly eggs, wild greens:
It's a meal to make the Aztecs proud. Pre-Hispanic cuisine, which celebrates native Mexican ingredients
chefs say the national appetite for hard-to-find delicacies is growing. Meanwhile, an artist-turned-chef in San francisco, originally from Mexico city, is betting that health-conscious Americans are ready for bug tacos.
At Restaurant Chon a downtown hideaway for pre-Hispanic cuisine in Mexico city, Chef Fortino Rojas serves plates of escamoles (ant larva), chapulines (crickets) and jabalã Â (wild boar),
among other proteins favored by early Mexicans. He describes the food as simple but with an Aztec flavor.
as well as seeds, herbs and flowers. Meats that are considered pre-Hispanic include venison, duck, boar, armadillo or a squirrel-like rodent called tepezcuintle.
Chef Daniel Ovadã Â a, 28-year-old owner of the upscale Paxia restaurants, sees a movement afoot, especially among a younger generation.
and who could imagine Mexican food without cheeses and creams? Who could imagine Mexican salsa without cilantro,
which comes from Asia? An appetite for the exotic may be crossing the northern border, too.
In San francisco, Mexico city native Monica Martinez is working on a taco cart concept called Don Bugito,
Most people know tacos and burritos, Martinez said. So I thought, why not? It's such an amazing type of cuisine,
waxworm larva tacos with pasilla pepper, and vanilla ice cream topped with caramelized worms and prickly pear syrup.
Photos: Crickets by Flickr/William Neuheisel Ant larva by Lauren Villagran
Baltimore's next steps: transportation, energy, green building, foodif Baltimores planning director has his way,
Shes getting involved with everything from community gardens to getting folks with food stamps access to farmers markets.
What about chickens? The whole chicken thing is a growing issue. As we rewrite the code this would be the time to address that issue as well.
Images: City of Baltimore
Beef-based diesel: Amtrak goes to the cowsi don't eat a lot of meat. I prefer that the animals I do eat lived in an at least somewhat healthful and respectful fashion,
and in the end, that as much of them as possible was used in some way. Because I don't like wasting available resources either.
The idea of dairy cow manure producing electricity or pig feces paving roads didn't disturb me much,
000 to see how the beef-based fuel would fare in the 3, 200-horsepower engine of a P32-8 locomotive.
as long as Americans don't start claiming domestic energy as an excuse to eat (even more) cheeseburgers. Top Image:
Beijing invests millions in laser writing scheme for pork productsbeijing-Â With a few days left before Chinese New Year,
pushing past mountains of bagged roast duck and revolving pyramids of luxury chocolate. A complete pig carcass hangs behind the meat counter, illuminated by a blue LED light,
revealing a series of numbers printed on the meat's surface. Å These numbers show the date that the pig was slaughtered,
Pork is Chinas most popular meat, and Beijing alone will consume nearly 30,000 pigs a day over the New Year period.
But eating pork in China can be risky. Last year, more than 4 million pounds of pork were recalled by the Chinese government after pigs in central China were found to have been injected with a fat-reducing drug called Clenbuterol.
Money-conscious Beijingers worry that water is injected into pork in order to increase its weight. One of the codes printed onto pig skin with a laser.
In response, Beijing's Government has launched the ŠMeat Reassurance  project. As well as the codes etched onto pigs bodies with lasers, customers at sixty-seven supermarkets across Beijing will receive a printed code each time they buy pork,
which can be used to check where where it was slaughtered. The project has already cost the government 2 million RMB (about 160,000 USD),
and will be extended to cover all the citys supermarkets and over eighty percent of its wholesale markets within three years,
or the  significance  of the bar codes attached to their freshly purchased pork. Machines installed to help customers check the origins of their meat have hardly been used,
supermarket staff said. Å I'm worried about food safety, but think the meat at this supermarket is more reliable,
thats why Im willing pay extra to shop here  one customer said. The majority of Beijing's meat is sold still in fresh food markets
while supermarkets have more appeal for middle-class consumers. Few supermarket customers were aware of the machines allowing them to check the origins of their pork products.
The project helps Beijing's government to investigate food safety problems, Yuan said. Å In the past the people responsible for unsafe meat would often escape the blame,
unless they were filmed secretly by the media, Â he said. Å Now we can track exactly where the meat has travelled from,
which means if there is an outbreak of poisoning, the government can easily check who is responsible,
ZFD equipped slaughterhouse meat hooks with RFID Chips as part of the project which are used to record the weight of pigs before
The Meat Reassurance project is part of the Chinese governments efforts to promote the ŠInternet of things  oe equipping ordinary objects with microchips,
All Chinese cities with a populations above 1. 5 million people will be required to install a meat monitoring system over the next five years,
Can the World Feed 10 Billion People? Foreign policy Photo: International Institute of Tropical agriculture/Flickr
Biomimetic irrigation system wins James Dyson Awarda concept for efficiently harvesting water to irrigate crops by condensing water underground
Their iphones are 30-ft.-long, $60, 000 hay balers. Cloud startups have served largely their own industry--technology--first,
including tomatoes, lettuces, and herbs. New york city consumers have been supportive of urban agriculture for years. In 2010, Brooklyn Grange opened a rooftop garden in Long island City, Queens, Â with the help of a successful Kickstarter campaign.
pulpy cake that can be used as animal feed or in a landfill. Â Conventional red clay bricks contain polystyrene (a synthetic polymer),
United states In Buffalo, New york, saving bees is part of a local business person's vision for redeveloping a waterfront industrial site into a design district.
The winning team of architecture students from the University at Buffalo designed a 22 foot tall tower made with steel, glass and cypress.
CNN Eco Solutions, Artinfo, Â University of Buffalo Press Images: copyright Charles Barclay, Li Xiaodong
But just how edible are these native foods? In Australia, we colloquially refer to our native foods as  Šbush tucker.  Australias Aboriginal inhabitants have been eating off the land for centuries.
Lilli pilli jam and native pepper are two more, but more likely to be found in boutique shops and high-end restaurants.
Å Chefs don't really learn about it in their hospitality courses, Â Weatherhead says. Å They put a bit of lemon myrtle into something and call it Indigenous food.
Some arent game enough to put it in their dishes, so the flavours are really mild and youre not sure
Of course, there are native animals that are edible too (such as kangaroos, crocodiles and emus), but Weatherhead prefers to educate us on the wonders of Australias native flora world.
and work on their eight hectare Peppermint Ridge Farm in West Gippsland, (about an hour's drive out of Melbourne).
and land and sustainability courses since 1996. An ecologist with a degree in environmental science and education, Weatherhead dedicates an area of the farm as her Å Living Classroom Â,
California company offers sustainable packaging for meat, fishit may be an obscure biblical reference, but I have to admit that the first thing
The new trays and containers were designed to replace the polystyrene containers that are used usually to wrap up meat
poultry and seafood. They are manufactured by Be Green Packaging. Excellent Packaging & Supply is the distributor.
And they can also handle the rather wet packaging situations that are associated usually with meats and fish.
The reason that you sometimes have to use paper AND plastic at the supermarket when taking your groceries home.
because the alternatives just don't hold up to real use behind the meat, poultry and fish counters.
Our new line of supermarket food and meat trays proves that there is now a viable alternative that's not made from corn, trees or plastic,
which specializes in table grapes, peppers, stone fruits and citrus varieties, can now look at everything from unit costs
Upstairs, rows of tomatoes, peppers, lettuce and even flowers line the walls amidst the zen-like sounds of trickling water.
'Sutherland is teaching bees to associate infected plants with a sugar reward. After they are conditioned,
and porcupines) to pass through the community, and a rooftop pool. And again, the designers propose a mix of live-work spaces.
Water stress concentrates sugar and nutrients in the crops making them extra flavorful. But, dry farming yields are often one-third the size of those from more industrial farms, Coren reports.
Monsanto has another idea for facing the water shortage. The agriculture biotechnology company has been testing out drought-resistant corn seeds.
PIE (Project Import Export, Inc.)uses water hyacinth to make wicker furniture. But its interesting to think about the process by which theyre created the method has changed.
There are a lot of different sugars from which were getting bioplastics. Dr. Wool from the University Delaware said the industry is moving like gangbusters toward a time
There are zero federally funded green chemistry centers in the U s. China is a mess environmentally right now
Two female elephants stand in a shed surrounded by fodder and cocky monkeys. Despite being chained at the foot,
Items including jewellery, clothes, lanterns, utensils, curtains, pickles and toys, from all over the country, are spread out like a colorful bedspread under the open sky.
The battle to feed all humanity is said over, Chu quoting author Paul Ehrlich. A subsequent major development was the development of disease-resistant strains of wheat that could handle artificial fertilizer and produce higher yields.
Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the earth,
Beans, sorghum, pulses and soya are processed into packaged food product for sale in cities. Photo: Cleanstar Mozambique Related:
and soil nutrients. The solution was developed by Bulut Ersavas, a former electronics engineer with IBM and Sun who got the idea for a water-monitoring system
Casey B. Mulligan, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, raised the idea in Species Protection and Technology, a post on The New york times Economix blog.
Joseph Wolf (1898), via Wikimedia) But returning to the merits of Mulligan's proposal, remember that resurrecting dead
It goes without saying that Mulligan's idea also ignores the actual services that various ecosystems render to us humans refreshing the air, cleaning water, reducing pests, and so on.
USDA) Mulligan's column reminded me of a variation on this cloning idea years from almost 20 years ago.
Maybe the way to think about Mulligan's idea is like satirist Jonathan swift's A Modest Proposal from 1729, in
A tree is actually sugar. You need to do a bit of chemistry to get the sugar out.
Mother Nature has five types of sugars--we can use two types, six-carbon and five-carbon sugars found in nature.
Smartplanet: Cobalt has seen investment from Vantagepoint, Pinnacle, LSP and Harris & Harris, among others. How did you convince them that biofuels could be done?
RW: You put a slide pack together and go to popular private equity center Sand Hill Road.
Corn cobs are easy to break down into sugar. But that's not a solution to the cellulosic fuel problem.
the lettuce in your Caesar salad might come from the building across the way. Demand for locally grown produce is rising in urban areas,
including herbs, lettuces, and tomatoes. We look at food creation in the same way as you look at making subway stops,
Ann Cooper is the 2011 Knowledge Winner, Â aka the Renegade Lunch Lady. Â She has started several programs that help schools figure out how to transition to healthy ingredients,
Sustainable Farming Can Feed the World? Â The column by Mark Bittman focuses on a report from the United nations in December 2010, called Agro-ecology and the Right to Food.
There is more corn grown in the United states used for ethanol fuel production than for livestock feed.
The company's technology also works with sugar and cellulosic mass. Today, it announced that a new biofuel refinery has joined its early adopters program.
It could also produce 25%of poultry and shell eggs, and 100%of honey. In addition, if Cleveland used 80%of every vacant lot and 9%of every occupied residential lot,
the city could generate between 31%and 68%of the needed fresh produce, 94%of poultry and shell eggs,
94%of its poultry and shell eggs and 100%of its honey. The study says:
 Baker s team based its study on one of its own groundbreaking buildings the 1966 Dewitt-Chestnut apartments in Chicago,
They did it, in fact, with their landmark Chestnut building and its unique trunk-and-cantilever structural system.
whether a person coming up through a large organization has the chops to continue to be creative.
and rows of various vegetable and herb plants including tomatoes, strawberries, cucumbers, zucchinis, radishes, peppers, peas, cresses, lettuces, tulips and orchids.
they're usually decorated with plant-specific sugar molecules, which could prompt a dangerous immune reaction
a structure where the problematic sugars are added. The engineered maize seeds produced proteins decorated with sugars that could be converted to human forms.
In the end, they were able to synthesize alpha-L-iduronidase, the enzyme used to treat the rare lysosomal storage disease mucopolysaccharidosis
but their sugar patterns have been problematic too. If all goes well, however, maize may one day become the go-to way to make complex protein drugs.
it will have the capacity to generate 30 million gallons annually of cellulosic biofuel produced from corn stover residues,
Using corn stover instead of corn alleviates two problems: criticism over using food crops for fuel
and ridding farmers of leftover stover, which can interfere with planting. Dupont was able to optimize the process and technology at its pilot facility in Tennessee,
store and deliver more than 375,000 dry tons of stover per year to the plant. The stover will be collected from a 30-mile radius around the new plant
and harvested of off 190, 000 acres, the company said. Graphic: Dupont Related: BP scraps cellulosic ethanol plant plans Turning pine trees into jet fuel Wood chip-to-sugar maker scales up to replace oil and food crops
butanol, cellulosic ethanol, omega-3 acidsnew YORK--Dupont wants to help raiseã Â sustainably-farmed salmon by offering them a diet loaded with omega-3 fatty acids that it manufactures from soybeans.
why notã Â put the acids in everyday foods such as sauces and soups? That was among the more interesting details of Craig Binetti's presentation at the 11th Jefferies Global Clean Technology Conference on Thursday.
But could the difference between a healthy diet and an unhealthy one be as little as a buck and some change?
 They found that healthier diet patterns--for example, diets rich in fruits, vegetables, fish, and nuts--cost significantly more than unhealthy diets (for example, those rich in processed foods, meats, and refined grains).
The highlights: Â Meats and protein had largest price differences. Healthier options cost $0. 29 per serving more than less healthy options.
Price differences per serving for healthier vs. less healthy foods were smaller among dairy, grains, snacks/sweets,
Comparing extremes, healthier diets cost $1. 48 per day more than the least healthy ones. Over the course of a year,
however, eating a healthy diet would increase costs by $550 for just one person. This would represent a real burden for some families,
and we need policies to help offset these costs, says study co-author Dariush Mozaffarian of Harvard.
On the other hand, this price difference is very small in comparison to the economic costs of diet-related chronic diseases,
which would be reduced dramatically by healthy diets. The team concludes that best way to make healthier foods more affordable is for governments to subsidize healthy foods and tax unhealthy ones, New Scientist reports.
Unhealthy diets may cost less because food policies have focused on the production of inexpensive, high volume commodities,
--and reduce the prices--of more healthful diets. The work was published in British Medical Journal Open last week.
and better conserve energy resources. These are all noble goals, and there's no doubt it's in the best interest of companies to save on power costs.
Ecovative COO Ed Browka, CEO Eben Bayer and Chief Scientist Gavin Mcintyre after winning the Picnic Green Challenge in The netherlands.
an online delivery company that provides organic produce and natural groceries to customers in Indianapolis and Fort wayne in Indiana;
they don t clear their own plates. So it s not that big of a piece.
and what wasn t. Our clients can compost meat and bones and dairy and fish,
-and-go salad restaurant. They all have their unique issues. When we do work with an elementary school,
Milk cartons, orange juice cartons, meat, bones, fish, dairy. The biodegradable products can be made from corn starch, soy starch or potato starch.
and plates can also be composted. And a lot of people get excited about the waxed cardboard. You can t recycle waxed cardboard, like pizza boxes,
but you can compost it. How much are your clients cutting down on waste now that they are composting?
or animal feed--but we think this is a better use. It s local, and by addressing this energy question it can be part of the solution for global warming.
or more food waste grinders that are located conveniently near each such activity and which have adequate capacity to dispose of all readily grindable food waste produced.
I recently spoke with Chief Environmental Officer Rich Shank. Prior to his role at Scotts Miracle-Gro
Shank served as executive director of the Ohio Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. He is a board member of the Ohio Environmental Council and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
It is a basic nutrient for all plants and is used widely in agriculture. You can t grow plants without phosphorus. It s a major component for animal life also.
It s a basic nutrient, but it becomes a problem when you get too much of it in a waterway.
One thing unique about Scotts fertilizer is that we re the only company that has combined all the nutrients in each particle.
The Edgeguard prevents material from being spread where you don t want it like on the driveway or sidewalk,
The implied increase in the shelf price of a pound of Smokehouse Almonds is 2. 8 cents.
The EERC is working withã Â Vermont-basedã Â Wynntryst to develop a gasification power system to use the waste from the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters processing plant to produce energy.
-based Cherry Central's supply chain business partners as the food makes its way to grocery or market shelves.
At a press conference on Capitol hill this Thursday, the president of burger chain White Castle will join the owner of a Wendy's franchise and other meat movers to demand theã Â repeal of the federal Renewable
a crop that has fed long the cattle that the food industry turns into burgers and steaks that groups like White Castle and Wendy's sell.
NCCR, along with other coalition partners and Members of Congress, will hold a press conference to launch'Feed Food Fairness:
Steve Foglesong, a cattle producer and the former chair of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association;
White Castle confounds someã Â meat eaters and thrills others by offering square-shaped burgers rather than round ones.
White Castle and its fellow meat marketers are hoping to take a bite out of the renewable fuel forces that they say are pushing up prices.
what are known as triploid eggs, an abnormality in the chromosomes that stop female fish from reproducing. plans to sterilize embryos in Canada before shipping them to Panama,
whose San diego lab scientists are genetically engineering zebra fish to try out other alterations in commercial seafood,
since the company plans to grow 15 million Aquadvantage eggs, that 1 to 5 percent could amount to 750,000 fertile fish.
says Patty Lovera, assistant director of the consumer watchdog group Food and Water Watch, just one of the 300 groups that oppose the fish.
where farmers hope to buy the company's fish eggs and cultivate them themselves for sale. The market for heart-healthy salmon,
Last November, salmon overtook shrimp as the second most consumed seafood in the United states, just behind tuna.
Some 91 percent of all seafood eaten in this country is imported and nearly half of that is from aquaculture.
Itã¢â â¢s like selective breeding in cattle to increase milk production or produce more beef per pound.
if people want to eat grass-fed beef and only what's grown within 100 miles of their homes.
Or eat beef that's been bred selectively to grow fast? It's the whole premise of global trade.
to grocery chains that overstock and then throw out perfectly good food because it doesn't meet standards of perfect shape
which plates 700-person weddings and corporate banquets, food waste has always been a cost of doing business.
to cut produce and meat so that every usable piece of it goes onto a plate;
300 per store every day in food that is still edible but has no channel to find consumers.
from apps that help with meal planning and keeping track of groceries to smart refrigerators that do this as well
from scraps left on our plates to the inedible bits and pieces of meat and produce remaining from meal preparation.
it makes our system depend on a few crops that is used for animal feed and in processed food.
U s. agriculture has had an impressive history of productivity that has resulted in relatively affordable food, feed,
Despite these tremendous advances, U s. farmers are facing the daunting challenges of meeting the food, feed,
Head bartender Dev Johnson, in a pork pie hat and waxed mustache, considers a new whiskey for his shelves.
Patel begins to suggest the addition of orange zest, but Johnson interrupts. You get lots of vanilla, caramel in there too...
it's definitely different, he says, drawing his eyebrows together. There's a lot of heat though, a lot of burn on the tongue.
and opting instead to roast, grind and brew the beans themselves, a process that involves precise timing, temperature and often thousands of dollars worth of equipment.
and that it was magical and also a mess. When asked about his thoughts on having to keep the fruit bats happy,
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