Emergent Futures Tumblelog

This is the Tumblelog of Paul Higgins and Sandy Teagle - Futurists from Melbourne and Brisbane in Australia. Go to Emergent Futures to see more or follow on Twitter at FuturistPaul . If you right click on the pictures, titles or links in these posts you will be able to go to the original story on the web. If you click on comments for each post you can either read what others have said or add your own comment via Disqus. If you click on the date of a post it will take you to a single post view where you can copy the web link if you want to send it to someone else. If you click on the tags it will take you to other stories from Emergent Futures with the same tag.

September 15th 2011

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Eugene Takle, speaking on the world’s emergency food supply in case of sudden collapse. Takle is Professor of Agricultural Meteorology and Director of the Climate Science Program at Iowa State University. (via climateadaptation)

Posted at 4:43pm and tagged with: climate change, agriculture, crops, drought, food, food security, security, national security, regional planning, usda, fda, government, farming, farms, Iowa,.

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We don’t have a long-term reserve. We have a global food supply of about 2 or 3 weeks,
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September 5th 2011

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Paul Higgins: I am travelling in Cambodia and Vietnam at the moment and will not eat the prawns or shrimp for two reasons - the farming methods and the fact that they are filter feeders and therefore collect al sorts of stuff in their system

climateadaptation:

I don’t eat shrimp. Ever. Here’s why:

2 student teams, 2 innovative video reports on shrimp farming — Pace U. on best practices and a prospect for shrimp farmed with the planet in mind and Univ. of British Columbia on pollution, land and water problems in Thai shrimp industry.

(Source: revkin)

Posted at 8:42am and tagged with: revkin, farming, agriculture, aquaculture, environment, thailand, shrimp, food, pollution, crops, antibiotics, land use, economic development, EU, GMO, asia,.

June 7th 2010

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Organic Agriculture: A Solution to Global Warming?

Paul Higgins: An interesting Freakonomics NYT piece which looks at the issue from all sides

Posted at 6:52pm and tagged with: climate change, farming, organic,.

Organic Agriculture: A Solution to Global Warming? Paul Higgins: An interesting Freakonomics NYT piece which looks at the issue from all sides

June 6th 2010

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Downtown Detroit looks to ‘factory’ farming

IT is an unlikely place for a farm, particularly a large-scale, commercial, for-profit farm operation, but downtown Detroit, Mich., may soon be home to just that.

John Hantz, chief executive officer of Hantz Farms, has his sights set on building a green economy in Detroit that he hopes will become a global example of urban farming.

Posted at 2:22pm and tagged with: food, farming, urban,.

Downtown Detroit looks to ‘factory’ farming IT is an unlikely place for a farm, particularly a large-scale, commercial, for-profit farm operation, but downtown Detroit, Mich., may soon be home to just that. John Hantz, chief executive officer of Hantz Farms, has his sights set on building a green economy in Detroit that he hopes will become a global example of urban farming.

October 24th 2009

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Self-Steered Tractors and UAVs: Future Farming Is (Finally) Now

It was 1903 when Robert Blair’s great-grandfather began farming the dry ridge overlooking the Clearwater River near Lewiston, Idaho. In 2001, when Blair took the reins, the farm’s books were still kept by hand. Now, he has deployed a set of Darpa-like technologies, including unmanned aerial vehicles and self-steering tractors.

Posted at 9:11pm and tagged with: robots, farming, agriculture,.

Self-Steered Tractors and UAVs: Future Farming Is (Finally) Now It was 1903 when Robert Blair’s great-grandfather began farming the dry ridge overlooking the Clearwater River near Lewiston, Idaho. In 2001, when Blair took the reins, the farm’s books were still kept by hand. Now, he has deployed a set of Darpa-like technologies, including unmanned aerial vehicles and self-steering tractors.

May 31st 2009

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Organic Dairies Watch the Good Times Turn Bad


For those farmers, the promises of going organic — a steady paycheck and salvation for small family farms — have collapsed in the last six months. As the trend toward organic food consumption slows after years of explosive growth, no sector is in direr shape than the $1.3 billion organic milk industry. Farmers nationwide have been told to cut milk production by as much as 20 percent, and many are talking of shutting down.

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Organic Dairies Watch the Good Times Turn Bad For those farmers, the promises of going organic — a steady paycheck and salvation for small family farms — have collapsed in the last six months. As the trend toward organic food consumption slows after years of explosive growth, no sector is in direr shape than the $1.3 billion organic milk industry. Farmers nationwide have been told to cut milk production by as much as 20 percent, and many are talking of shutting down.