Towers Of Vegetables Go Up As Singapore Builds First Vertical Farm

Submitted by ysp013 on Sat, 05/30/2015 - 6:04pm

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Peter Murray

Sky Green hopes to see the prices of their vegetables go down as more vertical farms go up.

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Short on arable land? One solution would be to plant…up. Singapore, a small country that imports most of its food, has now begun selling vegetables from its first vertical farm. And even while they’re more expensive the vegetables are already selling faster than they can be grown.

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Towers Of Vegetables Go Up As Singapore Builds First Vertical Farm

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Ban Ki-moon: World on course to run out of water

Submitted by ysp013 on Sat, 05/30/2015 - 5:56pm

Author:

John Parnell

UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said business as usual will mean demand for freshwater outstripping supply (Source: UN/Mark Garten)

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Speaking on the UN’s International Day of Biological Diversity, Ban said there was a “mutually reinforcing” relationship between biodiversity and water that should be harnessed.

“We live in an increasingly water insecure world where demand often outstrips supply and where water quality often fails to meet minimum standards. Under current trends, future demands for water will not be met,” Ban said.

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Why food riots are likely to become the new normal

Submitted by ysp013 on Sat, 05/30/2015 - 5:45pm

Author:

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

Riot police guard a supermarket attacked by food rioters in San Fernando, Buenos Aires. Photograph: Juan Mabromata/AFP/Getty Images JUAN MABROMATA/AFP/Getty Images

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Just over two years since Egypt's dictator President Hosni Mubarak resigned , little has changed. Cairo's infamous Tahrir Square has remained a continual site of clashes between demonstrators and security forces, despite a newly elected president.

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Why food riots are likely to become the new normal

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Hobbled on Energy, India Ponders a Multitude of Dams

Submitted by ysp013 on Sat, 05/30/2015 - 5:17pm

Author:

Rachel Nuwer

Dying young cotton plants in the village of Tadhadgaon in India last August. Because of a lack of rain, many villages downstream of the Jayakwadi dam, built in the 1970s, have suffered. Credit Kuni Takahashi for The New York Times

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As we noted here last week, over 600 million people lost power in India last summer, setting a modern record for the number of people affected by a blackout.