The recent 6th Annual Good Food Awards- which took place right here in San Francisco- recognized the partnership of Milwaukee’s Lakefront Brewery as well as Milwaukee’s Growing Power, to create locally-sourced, sustainably-produced beer- a product that...
Growing power is a non-profit organization that does amazing work; they provide hands on training, on-the-ground demonstration, outreach and technical assistance for people from diverse backgrounds who want equal access to affordable, healthy food. Growing power has...
Jacquelyn Ottman is a name you should know. A native New Yorker, she advises big companies such as Nike, Kraft, and Toyota on how to market “environmentally sound products to customers”. But she also holds local workshops for New Yorkers to glean...
Two Midwestern states in the U.S. are offering farmers three years of support to move to organic crop production. Farmers would ditch GMOs along with their toxic pesticides and herbicides. The aim is to boost acreage of organically-grown crops in the U.S. once the...
Harvesting electrical power from vibrations or other mechanical stress is pretty easy. Turns out all it really takes is a bit of crystal or ceramic material and a couple of wires and, there you go, piezoelectricity. As stress is applied to the material, charge...
