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How to feed the world with insects

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

A Grand Plan For Feeding The World With Insects
BY BEN SCHILLER, fastcoexist.com

We need more protein for the developing world, but we really don’t need to be raising more livestock. The solution might be buzzing around your head right now.

How do you feed 9 and half bil­lion peo­ple with­out destroy­ing the plan­et? Accord­…

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Why You Need to Discover Your Inner Artisan

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

Why You Need to Discover Your Inner Artisan
Jessica Stillman, inc.com

START IT UP

Thought the “artisanal everything” movement was over? Think again. Instead, it’s extending to include a greater variety of workers, argues a handful of experts.

Sev­er­al months ago we chart­ed the rise of a new type of…

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Eataly: Olympus of Italian slow food

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Health Informatics, Systems Science
The victory gardens at Slow Food Nation
The victory gardens at Slow Food Nation (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Eataly is an Italian food lover’s paradise. Think IKEA crossed with Whole Foods — on three levels with nine eating areas — featuring Italian and Piemontese foods, beverages, and kitchen-related products. Open since 2007, Eataly is aligned with the Slow Food movement, a nonprofit organization founded in the 1980s that has more than 100,000 members in 132 countries. Started in response to a bid by McDonald’s to open a fast-food franchise near the Spanish Steps in Rome, Slow Food aims to preserve and promote local and traditional food products, small-scale and organic farming, and generally extols the virtues of good-tasting, minimally processed foods.

Olympus of Italian slow food boggles the mind – Boston.com.

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