Gadget Guilt: If you're reading this, you're warming the planetenvironmentalists would gather with torch
and pitchfork if industry were to declare it was intentionally overshooting government greenhouse gas reduction targets by a wide margin.
and cram plastic buds in their ears would still put domestic greenhouse gas emissions at 2 percent above the government s target.
like diapers and bottled drinks. Traders buy these so-called gray-goods  in large quantities at tax-free prices in Hong kong,
and purports to offer the purest drink around. Owner Bosco Quinzanos envisions the Casa del Agua as an answer,
--even though she didn't know a whiskey-and-seven from a vodka tonic. Man, was I in over my head,
artisanal ales, porters and wheat beers. Â These craft brews, and the bars which serve them,
For decades, booze choices nationwide were restricted largely to soju, the local grain-based firewater; bland, mass-market lagers;
and more recently, pricey imported wines. But in recent years, a wave of exciting new beers, both international-style and Korean-style, have washed through the market.
Usually mistranslated as Å rice wine, Â makgeolli is categorically a beer. It is brewed not fermented;
is made from cereals not fruits; and is quaffed, not sipped. Â New trends have placed a traditional brew, makgeolli,
back in the spotlight (Andrew Salmon) Â The addition of expanded liquid choices to Korea s ever-pulsating nightlife makes the nation s drinking scene as exciting as anywhere in the region.
Å Korea has come a long way in its drinking culture, Â said Eric Thorpe, a PR executive and long-term expatriate.
and a shift in local tastes toward lower-alcohol, healthier drinks. Makgeolli was traditionally a peasants drink;
the choice for low-income, middle-aged, rural tipplers. Change came when a series of regulations were lifted in the late 1990s,
 ŠIn the early 2000s people in Tokyo were looking for a cheap alternative to the wine trend sweeping through Asia;
Regarding beer, minimum volume requirements were lowered in 2002, enabling the establishment of craft breweries, rather than the industrial operations that previously defined the market.
Å They knew that craft beer was taking the world by storm. Å Â Owner Dan Vroon pulls a pint at Craftworks (Andrew Salmon) International trade also played a role.
Korean free trade agreements implemented with Europe and the U s. in respectively, 2010 and 2012 increased imports of oe and taste for oe  quality beers.
The nascent, expat-focused craft beer scene was boosted massively in 2012 when The Economist attacked Korea s bland, mass-market lagers,
but wrote approvingly of Craftworks locally brewed ales. The article was reported widely by local media;
curious locals poured in to taste the beers of Noksapyeong. Â Vroon estimates his clientele pior was around 50 percent foreigners, 50 percent locals;
now the ratio is 80-20 in favor of Koreans. Craftworks today boasts four locations,
including top hotels such as Seoul s boutique W. Vroon oe who, like other Noksapyeong publicans, sources his beers from an out-of-town brewery
and is now a partner in the ŠThe Booth  a chain of craft beer pubs with its flagship in Noksapyeong.)
A third factor has been a move toward tipples that are lower in alcohol than Korea s customary libation, soju.
my father said there was a taste for stronger alcohol, Â said Kang Ju-jin, an attractive,
Å Nowadays, with the economy better, people prefer lighter drinks. Â A glass of Craftworks IPA, fresh from the keg (Andrew Salmon) Å People want natural products and makgeolli and craft beer are said natural,
 Vroon. ŠYoung women in their 20s and 30s are leading this trend they are embracing this stuff more than men:
whose products have thus far been limited to American-style lagers, are upping their game: Jinro-Hite produced an ale last year,
and OB is planning an imminent launch. It could also go international. Seoul s top traditional alcoholic producer Kooksoondang, launched a canned,
spritzer-style grapefruit makgeolli last year that appears tailor-made for Western markets. And Vroon hopes that once his own brewery comes online, he,
it s much faster and less frustrating than trying to identify a plant through an old fashioned field guide.
Make low fat milk the standard drink, cut back a bit on salting the fries, and you're done.
wine and naturearchitects working in the education sector may be the zaniest innovators around. It's driven in part by
the farm was created in the spirit of farm-to-table dining, and the owners of local restaurants contribute
who will give up a filet mignon or truffles for a plain liquid drink, and why Soylent may one day help extend our average life span.
 All one has to do is add water and drink it. Although some people add extras to it such as coffee or flavors.
and good carbohydrates that interact with taste buds in different ways. It's nonspecific actually.
the city where hooch is so legal you can puff away in certain coffee shops as if you were downing a Starbucks latte.
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I called Leavell recently at Charlane Plantation, his farm just south of Macon, Ga . What does a tree farmer do?
but dampen the  entrepreneurial  spirit in cities where there's a desire for fresh,
sensitive crops such as wine grapes. But the horto domi concept shows the convergence of the maker culture, organic and local food advocates and high-and low-tech.
Engineers from Silicon valley tinkered with the software on a laptop to ensure the machine was eliminating the right leafy buds.
Another company, San diego-based Vision Robotics, is developing a similar lettuce thinner as well as a pruner for wine grapes.
and the location of buds all to decide which canes to cut down. In Southern California, engineers with the Spanish company Agrobot are taking on the challenge by working with local growers to test a strawberry harvester.
and to put the power to muster this group in the hands of our future food producers We work together in the spirit of mutual aid
razor blade and screwdriver Mr. Mcelroy sets to work replacing a broken screen, deftly prying it off the iphone.
help rice plants process nitrogen fertiliser more efficiently, measure the alcohol content of a person's breath
wherein The french tend to have reduced much rates of cardiovascular disease compared to other Western countries on a high-fat diet because of their high intake of red wine made with grapes.
and antioxidants, there's no doubt consumers can find a snack packing the healthy punch they want
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