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- Medius Terra / Aqua
[Agriculture and Fisheries in the Mediterranean. Zoï Environment Network.]
We were excited to see that MedSec and UNEP have released a series of recent maps on various aspects of the environment dependent upon Mediterranean Sea. The series is titled, appropriately enough, "Environment and Security in the Mediterranean." They have documented Agriculture and Fisheries, Migration, Water, Population, [...]
- Global Food Networks: Countries Buying Countries
[Greenhouses being erected in Jittu, Ethiopia. Simon Norfolk for The New York Times.]
Two weeks ago, in an article entitled 'Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism', the New York Times reported that financially wealthy but resource-poor nations in the Middle East and Asia are attempting to ensure food security by buying up large tracks of [...]
- Landscape Infrastructures DVD
[Landscape Infrastructures DVD now available.]
This past October 25, 2008, The Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design hosted a symposium organized and curated by Prof. Pierre Bélanger, recently swiped up by appointed by Harvard GSD, titled Landscape Infrastructures. Bélanger rightly marks our time as witness to a unique convergence of infrastructure and landscape. The urgency [...]
- Inverted Infrastructural Monuments, pt.1
[Chand Baori Stepwell in Abhaneri, Rajasthan, India via Creative Commons]
As the looming threat of global warming persists, one of the most prominent effects has been the erratic nature of weather patterns with pronounced emphasis on weather extremes. Some areas of the world are accustomed to such polarity. In Western India, for instance, three months of [...]
- Agrinvestments
[Urban and suburban growth encroaching on Farmland, via creative commons/ Flickr]
The recent volatile nature of the stock market has incited a new type of investment – in Farmland. Deemed as ‘getting rich slow’, The Canadian Investment Company, Agcapita Farmland Investment Partnership, has taken to buying up vast amounts of the Canadian Prairies. Their [...]
- Sea Dust, pt 2
[Guérande salt pans. via flickr/francoiseroche]
It was fascinating to follow João Navalho's transformation of a microalgae field to traditional salt harvesting ponds in Portugal. What was originally a salt pond was converted to microalgae in anticipation of supplying natural orange dye for the organic food market. Later, as the market's interest dwindled, the site became a [...]
- Farming Fuels
[New Algae Farms are reminiscent of Walt Disney\'s \'The Future World of Agriculture\']
In a few weeks the Algae Biofuels World Summit will take place in San Francisco, one of the first formalized events dedicated to the production of algafuels. Algae farming has garnered increased attention as oil prices continue to rise, and it is [...]
- Sea Dust, pt 1
[Salt mounds at the Toronto port, near Cherry Beach. photo by katalogue on flickr.]
On January 21, Thomas L. Viola was charged with the theft of some 135 tons of road salt in Aurora, Illinois. Viola had (intentionally) sold the road salt, which did not belong to him, on October 1 at the bargain price of [...]
- Methane Capture: Agri-Alchemy
[Estimated aggregated distribution of pigs, poultry, cattle, and small ruminants. Source: FAO, 2006g.]
In a recent summary report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Livestock's Long Shadow), trillions of farm animals across the globe were found to generate a whopping 18% of CO2 emissions. That is more than cars, buses, and airplanes. [...]
- Student Works: Arisaig's Sea Vegetable Complex
[Seaweed as a natural resource, process and product and the physical manifestations of each. (All images by James Tait)]
We read with great interest of the project by James Tait at the University of Strathclyde and his award-winning proposal for a seaweed farm in the northwest coastal villages of Scotland. His project is titled "Time and [...]
