Building A One-Stop Shop Farm Planning Tool With Agritecture’s Product Manager
Meet Agritecture’s Product Manager, Nadim Atalla!
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Posts about: sustainability (5)
Strategizing Sustainability In CEA With Agritecture’s Marketing & Sustainability Lead
Meet Briana Zagami, Marketing & Sustainability Lead at Agritecture Consulting.
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Tech Is Shaping The Future Of Food But Traditional Practices Still Have A Role To Play
While there is a sense of excitement regarding the potential of tech-driven operations, there’s also an argument to be had for going back to basics.
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2021 Global CEA Census Will Measure The Impact Of Sustainability
The 2021 Global CEA Census has launched with a focus on growers’ perspectives on sustainability. Take the survey!
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Transparent Sustainability Is the Future of Agriculture
Launching Agritecture’s Sustainability Commitments page!
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Advancing Sustainability Through Smart Greenhouse Design
Greenhouses rely on simple design principles, like building orientation, high light-transmissive glazing material, and insulation to function at a basic level. Learn more about why Greenhouses are a strong CEA solution from Ceres Greenhouse Solutions, at AgritectureXchange!
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AgroUrbana Plans To Supply Farm With 100% Renewable Energy
AgroUrbana has three different approaches to supply their large operation with 100% renewable energy.
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The Benefits Of Hydroponic Tomato Extracts On Skin Care
Marlo skincare line delivers sustainable benefits to both the consumer and the environment.
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Circulytics Is A New Used Tool To Measure A Businesses’ Circularity
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation Releases New Tool to Measure Businesses’ Circularity
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Coronavirus And The Food We Eat
Given the unique and similar history of the coronavirus, it becomes clear our food choices and local market purchases may hold critical importance especially as the world population increases to record levels.
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The Rise Of Biophilic Cities
Biophilic cities try to incorporate nature into residents’ everyday lives.
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A Key Impact Urban Farms Have On Our Food System: Engaging Communities
Urban Farms Are Supposed To Solve Our Food Woes. The Reality Is Not So Simple. It’s claimed they can tackle food deserts, reconnect neighbors and slash our food’s climate impact, but it’s hard to live up to so much hype.
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A New York Story: Discover the Hydroponic Pizza
Jeffrey Tucker, owner of Stone Bridge Farm in Schuylerville, NY and Stone Bridge Pizza & Salad in Manhattan, worked with Henry Gordon-Smith, Managing Director of Agritecture to build hydroponic greenhouses on a 425-acre farm, in upstate NY.
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Urban Farms Bring People Together and Create Sustainable Lives
Projects such as Melbourne Skyfarm and those by Hong Kong’s Rooftop Republic are turning busy urban areas into hubs of food production. Urban farms can also change the dynamics of a building, bringing people together and encouraging people to lead sustainable lives
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NYC City Council Plans to Boost Food Security And Cut Food Waste
The New York City Council plans to boost food security in America’s most populated city—more than 1 million New Yorkers currently go hungry or lack access to healthy, nutritious food. With this new plan, Council speaker Corey Johnson plans to improve food policy, nutrition in schools, and make fresh
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A Conversation with Henry Gordon-Smith
In anticipation of Ag 4.0 (6 Days Away!), Henry reflects on his start in the agriculture industry, and the importance of sustainable profitability in farming and beyond.
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Abu Dhabi Partners with Chinese Firm to Convert Desert into Farmland
Officials hope the project can help address the UAE’s current reliance on food imports and bolster local production.
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The Future, With Urban Farming
In 2018, urban farming is a very hot-button issue. As consumers become more aware of the supply chain of their food, as well as the impact it has on the environment, it becomes abundantly clear that a lot of work is needed to make a real difference.
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An Accountant, A Farmer and A Teacher
For a city to be 'smart', it must include agriculture. This is exactly why the recent AgLanta Conference brought together professionals from far and wide to discuss the future of urban agriculture, 'smart cities', and the important integration that must take place between the two. Our s
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Big Data Suggests Big Potential for Urban Farming
A global analysis finds that urban agriculture could yield up to 10 percent of many food crops, plus a host of positive side benefits.
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URBAN FARMING IS THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE
The planet is growing more food than ever , and yet millions of people continue to starve worldwide. People are hungry everywhere — in the country, in the suburbs. But increasingly, one of the front lines in the war against hunger is in cities. New technologies are changing the
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ATLANTA SET TO HOST TWO MAJOR URBAN RESILIENCE CONFERENCES IN LATE MARCH
Atlanta is currently a booming city , and home to the third largest concentration of Fortune 500 companies in the US. But as the population and economy grows, the city is also looking to reinvent itself from a sustainability standpoint. In 2016, Atlanta was named one of the Rockefell
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EUROPE’S ‘BEST-KEPT SECRET’: ITS BOOMING BIO-ECONOMY
Europe’s bio-economy is worth €2.2 trillion and employs 18.6 million people across the bloc, but a third of citizens are unaware it exists.
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THE SFERA PROJECT, A 13 HECTARE HYDROPONIC GREENHOUSE BEING BUILT IN TUSCANY, HAS RAISED 19 MILLION EUROS
Sfera , an active startup in the agritech sector, is creating a hydroponic greenhouse in Tuscany for the production of vegetables under the banner of environmental sustainability.
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YOUNG ENGINEER WINS U.N. AWARD FOR SPACE-SAVING AGRITECH
A young British engineer has developed a system that cuts the land and water required in traditional horticulture by 90 per cent.
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VINCENT CALLEBAUT PROPOSES 3D-PRINTING ‘FARMING BRIDGES’ TO REGENERATE WAR-TORN MOSUL
Vincent Callebaut has presented his winning project for the Rifat Chadirji prize, a competition that called for ideas to rebuild Iraq’s liberated areas in Mosul. Titled ‘five farming bridges’, the concept puts forward the construction of affordable and adaptable bridges &a
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Ikea’s Space10 develops the Algae Dome, a prototype for food-producing architecture
Space10, Ikea’s “future-living” lab in Copenhagen that brought us Growroom, the spherical urban garden , has developed a bioreactor called the Algae Dome in an effort to explore the potential that algae will have on the future of food and sustainability.
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Nature-inspired water collection system wins $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize®
An international team based in New York City has developed a prototype product that mimics the way living systems capture, store, and distribute water, and has been awarded the 2017 $100,000 Ray C. Anderson Foundation Ray of Hope Prize in the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge .
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