Agritecture Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Associate professor of Horticulture, Neil Mattson, teaches a student in one of Cornell’s on-campus greenhouses. Credit: Greenhouse Product News. A student applies skills learned in a campus greenhouse at Stockton University. Credit: Cornell Chronicle. With the global population expected to reach 9.7 Credit: Stockton University.

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Agritecture Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

With containers, we end up losing harvests from a couple of containers rather than the entire farm. We've done a lot of analysis comparing our farming costs to traditional farms and greenhouses, and we are close in all categories. HGS: What is the largest farm you have constructed using the container methodology?

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Jordan Macknick from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory—which conducts agrivoltaics research in California—includes solar combined with specialty and commodity crops, solar with livestock, solar with land providing pollinator habitat or ecosystem services, and solar-integrated greenhouses in the list of approaches.

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Civil Eats

JUNE 29, 2023

Torres had been a city boy, raised in Guadalajara, and he was the son of a construction worker. And after the group had fixed the farm up, putting up a greenhouse, and breathed new life into its rows of red raspberries, the owner wanted it back. Chilcayote and nopal seedlings in a Tierra y Libertad greenhouse.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

Focus on Solutions Although there are clear, negative impacts for agriculture, the agriculture chapter effectively lays out the ways in which agriculture can respond constructively to increasing challenges. However, the most important change will continue to be the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 14, 2024

In the book, Jackson tells stories of measuring both the staggering greenhouse gas emissions gas stoves produce and the dangerous levels of air pollutants home cooks breathe in as they sauté and roast (even long after the burners are off). So, I think we need to favor reach codes that require future construction to be all electric.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 5, 2023

With instructions on how to choose the heartiest cultivars, “harden” them for winter, and outfit a greenhouse to keep vegetables just warm enough without using massive amounts of energy, The Winter Market Gardener makes a strong case for winter growing.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I had driven for an hour through a landscape blasted by extreme heat and drought before I saw a single combine at harvest. It had been a brutal harvest for Ohios farmers. Intel took advantage of state incentives to build a new computer chip factory in New Albany, Ohio, seen here under construction in summer 2024.

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Modern Farmer

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

has committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels, and expects to supply up to 13 million electric vehicles annually. But the winner of the 2024 election can determine how badly climate change batters the food supply in the long run — primarily by controlling greenhouse gas emissions.

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