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A great video on the future of agriculture. Foley focuses primarily on the technical challenges of doubling our food production and feeding the planet by 2050. The first half of the video was pretty much old hat for me, but the second part with the new innovations and potential places to improve yields was interesting. I'll have to keep in mind the ( Read more... )

Thoughts on Common Wealth: I just finished Jeffery Sachs' book Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet and wanted to recommend it to any person interested in the environment and how it might tie into global politics, economics, and social issues ( Read more... )