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Food
SmartPlanet stories related to the technologies, processes and policy encompassed by the production of food, as well as the businesses and organizations delivering it.
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Restaurant business innovation: Marijuana sauce
What's next - High Fries? Not yet available in Indianapolis.
5 | April 15, 2013 4:09am |
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U.K. gives the homeless jobs as tour guides
Homeless tour guides -- a way to bring those on the streets back into society's gaze?
5 | April 12, 2013 4:38am |
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Paris cultural center welcomes lawn-mowing sheep
PARIS -- The city deploys sheep to explore eco-friendly, all natural urban landscaping that doubles as PR for a forgotten corner of the city.
4 | April 12, 2013 2:00am |
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Q&A: Sean Bonner, co-founder of Safecast, on crowdsourcing science
Built in one week, the organization Safecast pioneered a new kind of citizen science.
3 | April 12, 2013 2:00am |
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Body scanners help size skinny jeans
Retailers including Bloomingdales have begun using body scanners - those infernal machines that irradiate you at the airport - to size jeans for the perfect fit.
2 | April 11, 2013 8:31pm |
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Veterinary drugs found in Asda beef product supply chain
Perhaps we should all take the hint and stop buying budget meat.
3 | April 10, 2013 7:00am |
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The Cuban diet helps you lose weight, live longer
Havana has the answer, says the British Medical Journal.
10 | April 10, 2013 5:36am |
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Turnaround Artist | Donnie Smith, CEO, Tyson Foods
We talk to this everyman leader about how to transform a company.
April 9, 2013 3:00am |
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Q&A: Kent Larson, director, MIT Media Lab's Changing Places group
Most future population growth will occur in cities. To make them more livable, Kent Larson is developing technologies for shared-use vehicles and tiny apartments that feel twice as big.
1 | April 8, 2013 3:00am |
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Whole Foods store will grow veggies on its rooftop farm
A smart partnership will bring ultra-fresh produce to a new Whole Foods store.
5 | April 3, 2013 12:25pm |
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How 3D printed food will move from labs into the mainstream
A hip designer who has pioneered 3D printing in the realms of fashion and home furnishings predicts how "printed" food can be monetized and influence attitudes toward "ownership."
4 | April 3, 2013 12:01pm |
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A fresh model for urban conferences: the Ideas City initiative
An experimental event hosted by the New Museum in Manhattan expands into a global series of interdisciplinary festivals, suggesting art and culture drive urban innovation.
April 1, 2013 6:54pm |
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Q&A: Gretchen Daily, ecologist, on quantifying nature's value
As people push against the limits of what nature freely offers us in terms of fresh water, climate stability and more, how can we use our resources to achieve the greatest return for society?
3 | April 1, 2013 3:00am |
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Does money buy happiness?
A happiness researcher tells us why the path to continual bliss might lie in how we think of it.
4 | March 29, 2013 4:02am |
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Books | Footloose
A review of Barefoot Walking: Free Your Feet to Minimize Impact, Maximize Efficiency, and Discover the Pleasure of Getting in Touch with the Earth, by Michael Sandler and Jessica Lee
2 | March 29, 2013 3:00am |
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Crowdfunding is growing U.K. businesses
Growing businesses in the U.K. are having trouble getting bank loans. Fortunately, crowdfunding is coming to the rescue.
March 28, 2013 1:27pm |
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Innovation boot camps: big business looks to the little guy
Some of the world's biggest companies are sending their employees on a new kind corporate field trip.
4 | March 28, 2013 9:24am |
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Will Panera's pay-what-you-want experiment work?
Can Panera afford to not enforce payment for a bowl of chili in St. Louis? We're about to find out.
5 | March 28, 2013 4:00am |
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Can luxury resorts solve the global water crisis?
Decades ago, only the rich drank imported bottled water. Now, two women are hoping the elite will start a new (old) trend: drinking local water.
7 | March 28, 2013 1:45am |
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Join 1 million others in the biggest heart study ever
Using data collected from smartphones, the Health eHeart Study hopes to come up with precise ways to predict heart disease in people without obvious risks.
March 27, 2013 12:41pm |