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Monday, December 19, 2011

Roger Doiron: My subversive (garden) plot

At TEDxDririgo, Roger Dorion talks about our current food system and how we can motivate each other to redefine what good food really is. How can we continue to feed our growing population as it exponentially skyrockets in the next 50 years? To learn more about the benefits of food growing and begin to grow our own victory gardens.

Friday, December 9, 2011

December Time

Christmas is around the corner and JD-Lightings is working hard to get a new catalog out for you guys for 2012. We will be carrying a new line of JD products and here's a quick peak of one of them.
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Friday, December 2, 2011

Sweetgreen

The food movement of growing locally and eating locally is finally here. We are here to highlight sustainable companies and projects that motivate us to eat better, live better and do better.

Here's our Friday JD pick: SweetGreen.

via The GOOD Co. Project, thumbs up Tim.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Power It Up

"Over human history, every boost in sustainable population levels

has been achieved by a new energy technology." -Aaron Dunlap

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

TEDxWindyCity with Dickson Despommier -- The Vertical Farm

If you haven't read The Vertical Farm by Dickson Despommier yet, it's brings you through the history of food development, our current food supply, basics in agricultural farming and how it has environmentally impacted our ecosystems through the years. Mostly, it's a good read to fill in that gap of environmental knowledge you might have missed out on. It will enlighten you on ideas of food + technology growing vertically, population growth and limited space, urban agriculture, growing hydroponically and aquaponically. Dr. Despommier will inspire you through the empowering concept of vertical farming and sustainable systems for our future generations. Here's a snippet:

"In the end, if and when our time on this planet has run its course, the human species will be judged not by the number of billionaires it has produced, or even by the exquisite art it has created over the entire span of its evolutionary history. Rather, it will be evaluated on how well it looked after its own kind and the rest of the life forms on which it was wholly dependent. Was the human culture based on equal sharing of resources in which every individual got enough water and food to live an adequately healthy life, or was it a species that encourages greed and hoarding of resources for one group or country at the expense of others? We must answer this question in advance if we are to change from a destructive force of nature into one that has learned the true value of symbiosis. Learning how to provide for ourselves in every way -- including producing food -- in ways that do not encroach on the right of others, such as the hardwood forest, will test our ability to think through the problem until we have solved it. I believe we can" (Despommier, 102).

The Vertical Farm: Feeding The World in the 21st Century

Gene Giacomelli on Martha Stewart: Simplified Hydroponics for Urban Farming

Martha Stewart exploring the simple pleasures of growing food hydroponically. Is it just us or does she always manage to make things look easy as pie. This DIY video will get you started on your own grow in no time.