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Clinton Hill School Gets Millions In Greenhouse Funding

Urban Assembly Unison is one of seven schools slated to share $7 million from Adams' Growing Brooklyn's Future initiative, which will fund building rooftop gardens and greenhouses, the borough president announced Tuesday.

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Swedish Company Builds Food-Laden ‘Plantscaper’ to Feed the Cities of The Future

Many researchers, politicians, and members of the public are worried that we’ll see dire shortages in the wake of such spectacular population increases. Perhaps most worryingly of which are the looming threats of food and water scarcity, likely to be compounded by climate change and greater migration towards urban centers.

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This Week in Tech: IKEA and Other Heavy Hitters Invest $40 Million in Vertical Farming

Swedish furniture company IKEA, top chef David Chang of Momofuku Group, Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and more big names and companies have invested a combined $40 million into AeroFarms, a vertical farm producer based in Newark, N.J.

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Growing Urban Seedlings

Earlier this year, the team transformed the disused basement into an incubator for micro greens and aquaponics, which is an integrated aquacultural system creating a symbiotic relationship between fish and plants.

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What Blockchain Technology Trial in Tomatoes Could Mean For Produce Industry

Intrigued by how blockchain was changing finance, an ex-banker at Wells Fargo & Co. and a former executive at Nasdaq Inc. began looking for other opportunities. They looked at applying the technology to insurance, law, even music. Then they hit on farming

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Philips Lighting Provides LED Lighting for New Sustainable Algae Production Facility at AlgaeCytes

Philips LED lighting provides an efficient lighting source to produce algae-derived Omega-3 oil

LED system enables algae to be grown in a controlled environment with mild temperatures

Promotes higher yields, reduced energy usage and more control over production

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The Hydroponic, Robotic Future of Farming in Greenhouses

Here in 2017, the automation revolution in agriculture is poised to take on a whole new life—thanks to robots. In a nondescript office park in Silicon Valley, a startup called Iron Ox is taking the first steps toward roboticizing greenhouse farming, which has so far stubbornly resisted automation.

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$30 Million Greenhouse Project Planned In Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin

A $30 million greenhouse that could employ up to 40 people is planned on a vacant site in Pleasant Prairie. The 35-acre Prairie Produce Farm will be the first Dutch-style hydroponic greenhouse in Wisconsin, according to plans submitted by Jim Hershenbach to the village

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That Healthful Looking Green Leafy Stuff in Your Fridge May Not Be As Great For You As You Think.

Right now, less than 4% of the soil in North America is certified organic farmland, and worldwide chemically based farming practices are continually polluting the soil.

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Is Organic Labeling Something The Hydroponic Industry Needs?

In an extremely close vote Nov. 1, the USDA’s National Organic Standards Board made a decision on a controversial issue: can hydroponically grown crops be certified organic? The answer, by an 8-7 margin, was yes.

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Urban Agriculture Production Act Could Help Eliminate Urban Food Deserts

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) introduced the Urban Agriculture Production Act in September. This bipartisan bill aims to support nutritional and farmers’ market programs and help create the next generation of local, urban farmers and food producers.