Kelly McCartney

The Working World: Funding Co-ops with Non-Extractive Capital

As more and more consumers get savvy about where they put their money, how do cooperatives expand their supply to meet the demand?

July 21, 2016

Society

Germany Joins Europe’s Bike Highway Revolution

Leave it to Germany to build a bicycle autobahn that connect 10 cities within its borders.

July 19, 2016

Society

The Chicago Honey Co-op Works with a Hive Mind

Bees are essential to food production. In response to the massive, global colony collapse problem, myriad urban beekeeping organizations have cropped up around the country.

July 1, 2016

Society

Growstuff Uses Open Data to Help Local Gardeners

Growstuff provides information gathered from local gardeners on crop-planting times, best-suited varietals, and more for the regions growers calls home.

September 17, 2014

Society

New Urban Ag Study Touts Potential of Small Cities

To see beyond the hype to urban agriculture’s true potential to meet the growing need for healthy food in cities, a recent study published by IOPScience looked at how much food (specifically vegetables) the world’s “urban clusters” could actually produce.

September 16, 2014

Society

Pennsylvania Seed Library seen as encouraging “agriterrorism”

County Commissioner Barbara Cross said about the potential risk, “Agri-terrorism is a very, very real scenario,” she said. “Protecting and maintaining the food sources of America is an overwhelming challenge…so you’ve got agri-tourism on one side and agri-terrorism on the other.”

August 11, 2014

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