Bees & VCC = The greenest public structure in Vancouver Video by: Stefan Morel From the filmmaker: The Vancouver Convention Centre was minted as the city’s newest architectural wonder, at the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The greenest public structure on Vancouver’s ever-rising urban skyline, the VCC was engineered with a host of sustainable [...] Read more »
We Farm
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Vert: Social Enterprise Engineered From Bags
Dell Social Innovation Challenge Submission Vert is a project that was created as a submission for the Dell Social Innovation Challenge. It’s creators shared with us that their motivation for starting the project where not financial, that rather they hope to “contribute to the debate on agriculture, technology and food security” adding that it also [...] Read more »
Documentary Trailer: ‘The Man Who Stopped The Desert’
Winner of 7 international film awards Trailer & film by: 1080 Films From the Mark Dodd, the filmmaker: Winner of 7 international film awards, The Man Who Stopped the Desert is a one hour feature doc telling the story of Yacouba Sawadogo, an African peasant farmer who has pioneered a technique that reverses the process [...] Read more »
Food for the Future
Missouri University Drives Collaborative Food Research Effort Video by: MU News Bureau and Nathan Hurst From the MU News Bureau: Researchers at MU are studying all aspects of food production through a collaborative effort called “Food for the Future.” Food for the Future is one part of a larger initiative called Mizzou Advantage, which brings [...] Read more »
The Making of a Sustainable Food System
Sustaination Sustaination is a UK based start-up with some very big ideas on how to simplify food distribution. View the video below to learn all about this unique business proposition. “Business supply 99.9% of what we eat. The easier it is for them to find and buy local, the easier it is for us to [...] Read more »
Using Ingenuity & Internet to Stay on the Farm
Video by: Making Connections News From the filmmakers: A portrait of Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton, farmers in Scott County, Virginia, who have used the Internet to create a thriving market for their invention, the Avian Aqua Miser. This innovative device provides a steady source of water to chickens without creating an unsanitary mess. Their [...] Read more »
“Don’t Forget about Africa”
Collaboration to Advance African Agriculture and Fight Hunger Last week The Howard G. Buffett Foundation and the Norman Borlaug Institute at Texas A&M announced a new collaboration based in South Africa at the Ukulima Farm Research Center to advance African Agriculture and Fight Hunger. “It is my hope this collaboration will improve agricultural [...] Read more »
Carting water, by Kyle Wohling
Diligent Water Circulations No matter how large or small, every farmer thinks about how to manage agricultural water. They think about how they’ll get it, how they’ll conserve it, and how they’ll be able to produce more crops with less water. In this video by ABC Open, we see how one farmer struggles with water [...] Read more »
From the Country to the South Bronx: A Small Farmer’s Weekly Odyssey
Video by: CUNY J-School Video Storytelling From the filmmakers: Ben Schwartz, 32, always loved to farm from an early age. He spent his childhood in Nyack, New York, but his grandparents actually hail from the South Bronx. They left in the ‘60s, during a period of white flight, and Ben always wanted to go back [...] Read more »