There’s a more sustainable way to deliver online grocery orders

Many shoppers will find the process quicker and easier post-pandemic, which begs the need for more serious attention to the transportation footprint associated with getting groceries to consumers’ front doors.

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There’s a more sustainable way to deliver online grocery orders

Crops could face double trouble from insects and a warming climate

Watch the very hungry caterpillar.

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Crops could face double trouble from insects and a warming climate

This vision of the post-pandemic food system looks a lot like a microgrid

Redundant, distributed, resilient, smaller scale and locally powered, yet connected to the larger world in ways that benefit it when safe.

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This vision of the post-pandemic food system looks a lot like a microgrid

Indigo Ag’s plan to compensate farmers for carbon removal is attracting funders such as FedEx

The startup initially planned to have 3 million acres signed up for its Indigo Carbon program in the first year. It sextupled that goal.

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Indigo Ag’s plan to compensate farmers for carbon removal is attracting funders such as FedEx

Small plant, big protein

Mankai is the world’s tiniest leaf vegetable. Israeli startup Hinoman wants to build it into a widely available food brand by 2025.

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Small plant, big protein

Rooftop wind power might take off using a key principle of flight

A new device could open more areas to wind production by using stationary airfoils instead of twirling turbines

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Rooftop wind power might take off using a key principle of flight

Farmworkers are deemed ‘essential’ but are not protected from COVID-19

As many people in the U.S. shelter-in-place in their homes, farmworkers are at risk of becoming severely ill from the coronavirus as they continue to support the country’s food supply chain.

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Farmworkers are deemed ‘essential’ but are not protected from COVID-19

Utopia? Imagining the food system of 2050

What’s implausible in 2020 may be plausible by mid-century.

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Utopia? Imagining the food system of 2050

In semi-arid Africa, farmers are transforming the ‘underground forest’ into life-giving trees

Revitalization of a traditional agricultural practice known as farmer managed natural regeneration is bringing new life to millions of acres of degraded land while boosting food, fuel, habitat and carbon storage.

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Episode 214: What CSOs should do now, agtech and animal health

Two sustainable business leaders, JLL’s Cynthia Curtis and PwC’s Jeff Senne, join us for a frank chat.

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Episode 214: What CSOs should do now, agtech and animal health

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