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ScanAvert: The Future of Shopping with Dietary Restrictions
ScanAvert, a mobile application that helps consumers with dietary restrictions to choose safe groceries is much more than a mobile grocery advisor, allowing users to find and track their purchases based on their manageable disease or condition.
Innovator Video: Michael Pollan on Open Source Agriculture
In this video from his talk at The Long Now Foundation in 2009, Michael Pollan discusses the feasibility of genetically engineered crops designed to support sustainable agricultural systems
My Robotic Kitchen Planned This Dinner Party at SXSW
This post outlines the rough prototype of a dinner planning app built r to customize, scale, and shop for a menu, then organize all of the required steps into one master to-do list.
Five Media Innovations To Help Feed the Planet
As modern technology is adopted in widespread regions of our planet, it can provide poor people with access to many forms of media. Innovations like the internet and satellite technology are changing the face of food system solutions in even the poorest countries. Five media innovations stand out as helpful tools for poor populations to learn sustainable agricultural techniques.
Food Meets Technology at TEDxManhattan Changing the Way We Eat
“Changing the way we eat” means a lot more than simply cutting fat and calories from our diets.
Innovator Video: Zaarly’s Adam Hofmann on Creating Connections
Adam Hofmann, Director of Marketing and Community Development at Zaarly, discusses creating a format to connect people throughout the food system
What the Farm Bill is Going On? A Simple Timeline of Events
Food+Tech Connect has created a simple time line (with lots of links) below to illustrate the State of the Farm Bill, and to explain that, in the end, the outcome of all this Congressional wrangling is far from the final word on the bill. Just because the “Super Committee” has the ability to cut $1.2 trillion from the U.S. budget – including at least $23 billion from agricultural programs – doesn’t mean it will actually be successful in doing so
What is the Farm Bill? And Why Should I Care?
Yesterday, Food+Tech Connect announced we will be holding a “Farm Bill Hackathon” on December 3rd. But what is the “Farm Bill?”
How Can Information & Technology Be Used To Hack The Food System?
In honor of our one-year anniversary, Food+Tech Connect is asking leading food and technology innovators – how can information and technology be used to hack the food system? While many associate the word with a criminal act, “hacking” actually grew out the desire of programmers to explore systems to find out how they could be
Google+: How Food Innovators Are Embracing It
In what interesting ways are food tech innovators using Google+? Joining Studiofeast founder Mike Lee for his first Google+ cooking demonstration two weeks ago opened my eyes to just how disruptive Hangouts could (will) be. The experience got me thinking about other innovative ways Google+ could be used by people across the food supply chain. Some
Iconathon LA 8/13/11: Create New Symbols for Food & Nutrition
Calling all Food Advocates & Designers This Saturday, August 13, 2011, Code for America and The Noun Project are bringing together designers and food advocates to create new symbols for Food & Nutrition in a design event called an Iconathon. Register here. Description and agenda from Iconathon LA organizers: LA’s Iconathon will begin by providing
Infographic Visualizes The Greenhouse Gas Emissions of 20 Popular Proteins
Last week, Environmental Working Group released Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change+Health, to make it easier for consumers to green their diet and the planet. They partnered with environmental analysis firm CleanMetrics to conduct lifecycle assessments for 20 kinds of meat, dairy, and vegetable proteins. Using a systems approach to conduct the assessments, they calculated the
Gojee: Lessons Learned in Building a Data-Driven Startup
One of the great challenges of building a startup is ensuring that your product meets market demand. This seems to be particularly true for data-driven startups, whose initial products often lack appeal for the average consumer. No matter how advanced, complex or innovative the technology is that powers a product, more often than not, user adoption is contingent on the simplicity of its design and user experience. The newly launched Gojee, a recipe site which allows users to search through hand-curated food blogger recipes based on what’s in your ‘pantry’, is case in point
[Infographics] Farming First: Where To Invest To Build A Green Economy
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Farming First, a multi-stakeholder coalition whose goals is to further sustainable agriculture development worldwide, has launched a six-part online infographic called “The Story of Agriculture and the Green Economy.” The series tells the story of agriculture’s potential for building a global green economy that can contribute to GDP growth, while also reducing carbon emissions. Questions
Startup Lessons: Learning To Code While Building Airbnb of Food
Non-technical startup founders often struggle to find technical co-founders. Entrepreneur Emil Petrone has a solution: quit your job, leave your home for two months, and teach yourself how to code, which is exactly what he did last July. Now he’s building Housefed, the Airbnb of Food. Housefed hopes to allow people to find home cooked meals anywhere
