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Vertical Farms Aren’t Going to Solve Our Food Problems

Vertical (Diagonal?) Farm from Work AC in NYC TreeHugger has been dining on vertical farms since Mike first wrote about them back in 2005 . We have not been entirely uncritical of them, even calling them Pie in the Sky . Stan Cox and David Van Tassel go a lot further in an article published in Alternet . They write: “Although the concept has provided opportunities for architecture students and others to create innovative, sometimes beautiful building designs, it holds little practical potential for providing food.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Vertical Farms Aren’t Going to Solve Our Food Problems

Transporting 900 Bananas and a Baby? Five Fab Kid and Cargo Bicycle Combinations

Photo courtesy Taga . Portland, Oregon is becoming a premier location for cargo bike innovation – Clever Cycles blazed this trail in 2007 by starting to import Dutch Bakfiets cargo boxes and other specialty cargo solutions, and Joe-Bike and Metrofiets are taking a lead in handmade custom-built cargo bikes. There’s so much happening that it can be a little daunting for the uninitiated. If you already know that you’ll want to haul kids and cargo on a utility bike but have a low threshold for tech talk, how do you figure out what works? Mostly by test driving – it turns out that choosing a cargo bike and kid hauler is a personal affair. Click forward to read about five fabulous kid and cargo utility bikes at a variety of price points, to get your wheels turning…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Transporting 900 Bananas and a Baby? Five Fab Kid and Cargo Bicycle Combinations