Why we Need Renewable Food Tech to Feed the World

Angel investor, Ali Partovi, is stimulating discussion in the area of  "renewable" food technologies and has just launched FixFood, a forum for people to share ideas on how to fix America's broken food system. You can learn more about sustainable approaches to agriculture in his informative TechCrunch article - Food Is The New Frontier In Green Tech.

The rapidly growing world population is creating a shortage of natural resources and harming the environment.
These short videos raise awareness of the unsustainable levels of human consumption and the urgent need for renewable food production solutions.

Big Question: Feast or Famine?



Video from the University of Minnesota - Institute on the Environment
More videos available from the UMNIonE YouTube Channel


Population Growth



Population Growth - Infographic from Kristy Graybill on Vimeo.

Via Earth Protect

Related Resources


Infographics & Visualizations
8 Incredible Farm Infographics
Ecomagination Interactive Visualizations
Infographic: Ten Things You Should Know About Water
World Population Growth Infographic

Knowledge
Permaculture Knowledge Base
Wikipedia Agriculture

Video Production Tools
The software tools used in the production of these videos include Adobe Illustrator and After Effects.

A Vision of Students Today

This video was created by cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.

It provides insight and statistics on many important issues relevant to students and educators today, including cultural, social and technological concerns.

Music soundtrack by Try^d: Listen - Both the video and music are released under Creative Commons license.

You can learn more about the collaboration and data gathering at the Digital Ethnography blog

via Open Culture

The Changing Media Landscape - Did You Know 4.0

Facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology.

For further information and the story behind the making of "Did You Know 4.0" visit:
XPlane
The Economist

Carbon.to - CO2 Awareness Tool

Carbon.to - Carbon so you can understand it via kwout

An online CO2 converter built by David Kjelkerud, Henrik Berggren and Jorge Zapico at Ecomo09, an environmental hacking day in London. It is designed to help you more easily understand what a kilogram of CO2 really means.

You can convert CO2 amounts to other units such as bottles of beer or compare different emissions for instance how many apples are equivalent to a litre of milk. The data used is mostly localized to Sweden.

David and Henrick also built http://citysounds.fm/ the web app that lets you listen to the latest music from cities around the world.

Posted via web from David Holmes

The Importance of Innovation for Future Economic Growth Worldwide

A New Ranking Of The Worlds Most Innovative Countries

View more documents from Jordi Planas manzano.

Use the bottom right icon to view this document in full screen mode. The Slideshare page also has a Presentation Transcript and here's a PDF Version.

Posted via web from David Holmes

Instruction Manual for Life [cc]

A story about childhood, parenthood, and adulthood. Animation and words by TheraminTrees. Piano score by QualiaSoup (YouTube channel links)

22 Smart, Inspirational Quotes From Bloggers In 2008

22 Smart, Inspirational Quotes From Bloggers In 2008

View more presentations from Adam Singer.

Gaia - The Future of Politics

A journey through time charting the information power shift caused by the Internet and the ensuing development of a new global politics. Website

Gaia, a New World Order, is born today, the 14 August 2054.
Racial conflicts, ideological conflicts, religious conflicts, territorial conflicts belong to the past.
Every man is a world citizen, subject to the same law.
The Internet has driven the change, spreading communication, knowledge and organization at a planetary level. Transcript

Via Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing

Contsructive Capitalism

Umair Haque @ Daytona Sessions vol. 2 - Constructive Capitalism from Daytona Sessions on Vimeo. February 12, 2009, Stockholm.

A thought provoking presentation by the Director of the Havas Media Lab, Umair Haque,  about Constructive Capitalism and Why Ideals are the New Business Models. 

The Ten Laws of Constructive Capitalism

 1. Strategy is a commodity

 2. Competition is obsolete

 3. There is nothing more asymmetrical than an ideal

 4. Tomorrow is today

 5. Connections not transactions

 6. People, not product

 7. Creativity, not productivity

 8. Outcomes not incomes

 9. Advantage is in the DNA

10. The next revolution is institutional

Video Explaining the Subprime Mortgage Time-Bomb

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

A short animation explaining the system of borrowing and lending that led to the current financial meltdown:

The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated.

Created by Jonathan Jarvis.

Narration by John Levoff.

Music by Brandon Au - a.k.a - DJ Skwint

Update: Useful links for the global economic meltdown.

 A Great Recession Guide - a mini-guide to the lighter side of the current, prolonged recession.

Google Tip Jar - a collection of money saving tips submitted and ranked by the web community.